We’re delighted to welcome Adrienne Gear to Amba Press. Her books are now available in Australia, published under licence from Pembroke Publishers in Canada.
Adrienne is a literacy consultant, author and workshop presenter based in Kelowna, British Columbia, with more than thirty years of experience in primary education. Her practical, classroom-ready approaches support both skill development and student engagement in literacy learning.
Her newest book: Powerful Read Alouds
Adrienne’s brand new book shows teachers how intentional read alouds can deepen and enrich a year-long primary literacy program. Rather than adding more to an already full day, it focuses on using books to enhance and strengthen what teachers already do.
Reading Power, Revised and Expanded
The book that started it all. Reading Power shows teachers how to make thinking visible through explicit instruction of five comprehension strategies: connect, visualise, question, infer and transform.
Powerful Thinking
Building on Reading Power, this book shows teachers how to create a ‘culture of thinking’ in the classroom and stretch thinking strategies across all areas of learning.
Powerful Understanding
Practical ways to build social-emotional skills while helping students make connections and question what they read, with children’s literature anchoring every lesson.
Powerful Writing Structures
Using ‘brain pockets’, students learn the qualities of different writing forms, supported by detailed lesson plans for a balanced year-long writing program.
Powerful Poetry
This book celebrates the beauty, power and pleasure of poetry in the classroom, and shows how a single poem can ignite an endless number of literacy lessons.
Join Adrienne early next year
We’re thrilled that Adrienne will be joining us for a webinar for Australian educators and librarian on Tuesday 2nd March 2027. Register here.
Find out more about Adrienne and her work here.
