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HIP BATS Mystery Teacher's Guide Pack - saves you over 15% plus no shipping charges and no waiting! Download them right away! Includes lesson plans for each novel in the

The ORAL READING RECORD, otherwise known as a Running Record or Informal Reading Inventory, is the best tool for assessing what our students know and can do as readers. An Oral Reading Record [...]

HIP Xtreme Teacher's Guide Pack - saves you over 15% plus no shipping charges and no waiting! Download them right away! Includes lesson plans for each novel in the

HIP SR Mega Teacher's Guide Pack - saves you over 15% plus no shipping charges and no waiting! Download them right away! Includes lesson plans for each novel in the

Did you know that messy handwriting can adversely affect academic performance?  Writing expert Steve Graham suggests that bad penmanship can tank test scores from the 50th to the 16th percentile [...]

HIP JR Teacher's Guide Pack - saves you over 15% plus no shipping charges and no waiting! Download them right away! Includes lesson plans for each novel in the

HIP Hi-School Teacher's Guide Pack - saves you over 15% plus no shipping charges and no waiting! Download them right away! Includes lesson plans for each novel in the

Part of me believes that kids should be able to read whatever they want during SSR (Sustained Silent Reading) Time, whether it’s magazines, manuals or comic books – as long as they’re reading [...]

A special collection for teen readers! The HIP HI-SCHOOL Pack is a discounted collection of 12 novels geared to students in senior [...]

This special HIP QuickRead Teacher's Guide covers all four of the HIP QuickRead Series chapter books. For each [...]

I used to be able to sit with my nose buried in a book for hours on end. These days, I can hardly go for 15 minutes without getting interrupted or distracted. I blame the internet. I get my news [...]

Teacher “workshops” have been getting a bad rap lately. After all, we know that sustained professional development is more effective and longer-lasting than the “one-shot” [...]

Wait Time refers to the period of silence between the time a question is asked and the time when the question is answered.  Research tells us that, on average, we teachers give students less than [...]

…and other lessons learned about getting students to think more deeply. My grandson has just returned from his first week at Kindergarten and he tells me that one of the most important [...]

I often tend to use the words “struggling” and “reluctant” readers in one breath.  But the reality is that not all of our reluctant readers are struggling. And, as one ELL [...]

HIP SR - The "gold standard" in hi-lo fiction

9 Hi-lo novels about Teens and Trouble with the Law Each of these novels features teens in trouble with the law - vandalism, arson, bank robbery, drug deals, street racing, [...]

…to students who weren’t even born in 2001? When High Interest Publishing first received the manuscript for TERROR 9/11, we were hesitant.  Some of us wondered if publishing the novel [...]

In a BBC article that’s gone viral on the Internet, author Mark Forsyth describes a number of ways that fluent speakers of English instinctively apply rules of word order just because they [...]

Questions about the writer’s purpose appear on virtually every reading test and we often teach students the acronym PIE:  Persuade, Inform or Entertain.  But why does it matter? Several [...]

Just because HIP novels are geared to struggling readers doesn’t mean we don’t sneak in some literary devices here and there. And one of our favourites is the tricolon, or, as we like [...]

Over 80 years ago, Louise Rosenblatt postulated that the process of making meaning from print involves a transaction between the words on the page and the knowledge, beliefs and biases of the [...]

Several years ago, I was part of a team developing a large-scale reading assessment. When we were field-testing different types of tasks and text forms, we were surprised to see that our high [...]

All four QUICKREAD chapter books at a significant discount over the individual price of the books.  These chapter books look [...]

Catching Air is more than a skateboarding story; it's about kids who can make a difference in their community.  This story describes the troubles Pat and his friends get [...]

In It Wasn't Me, Tom is the new kid at school and he's getting hassled by everyone, especially one group of girls.  When he gets framed for vandalism at school and even [...]

GIRLS' CHOICES PACK features some of HIP’s top titles selected by girl readers for their strong female characters, often in heroic situations. This pack spans a wide range of [...]

I confess I have a phobia about homophones.  You know, those tricky words that sound the same, but are spelled differently and have different meanings.   Mixing homophones is one of the [...]

“Does spelling count?” Does this question drive anyone else crazy? Of course spelling counts!  Would they spell a word differently depending on whether its spelling [...]

Round-robin reading – every student taking turns reading aloud from a passage – has been something of a time-honoured tradition in schools.  But in a rare act of unanimity, reading [...]

The Countess and Me is Paul Kropp's award-winning novel, upon which Curse [...]