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Closing the Achievement Gap: How to Pinpoint Student Strengths to Differentiate Instruction and Help Your Striving Readers Succeed מאת Noah Borrero To meet the instructional needs of the increasingly diverse students in today's middle and high schools, teachers must be more than content area specialists—they must also know how to teach reading. In this practical resource, two teachers share the research-based, classroom-tested techniques they...

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Nurturing Knowledge: Building a Foundation for School Success by Linking Early Literacy to Math, Science, Art, and Social Studies מאת Susan Neuman The research is clear: the ability to read for understanding requires a great deal of knowledge and vocabulary, as well as reading skills. By linking early literacy to content area learning, we can provide children with the purposeful, knowledge-building experiences they need to be successful reader...

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Teacher's Essential Guide Series: Classroom Management (Scholastic First Discovery) מאת Jim Burke The Teacher's Essential Guide to Classroom Management offers classroom teachers concise, effective solutions to the most common instructional challenges they face. These solutions are based on a combination of research and Jim's own experience as a public school teacher who gets up every morning and...

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Interactive Comprehension Strategies: Fostering Meaningful Talk About Text מאת Frank Serafini One of the hallmarks of an effective reading program is the energetic conversation that surrounds a text students are engaged in reading. Teachers can determine their students' comprehension of the text based on the kinds of questions students ask and the connections they build across text and to th...

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Literature Is Back!: Using the Best Books for Teaching Readers and Writers Across Genres מאת Carol Fuhler Organized by genre (picture books, traditional literature, modern fantasy, historical fiction, realistic fiction, poetry, and nonfiction), this book places quality children's literature at the heart of literacy teaching. The authors define each genre and its values for use with students; identify ex...

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Complete Year in Reading and Writing: Grade 5: Daily Lessons - Monthly Units - Yearlong Calendar מאת Laurie Pastore At the beginning of every school year, we bet you ask yourself, What do I want my students to know and do as readers and writers by the end of this year?O This bookNjust for Grade 5Nmakes that question easy to answer by taking all the guesswork out of teaching reading and writing. Provides a detaile...

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Day-to-Day Assessment in the Reading Workshop: Making Informed Instructional Decisions in Grades 3-6 מאת Franki Sibberson In this book, two seasoned teachers show how to set reading goals, assess students to ensure goals are being met, and carry out instruction. Stressing that there are many ways to determine where students are and just as many ways to determine where to take them, they give teachers the tools to make ...

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Don't Speed. Read!: 12 Steps to Smart and Sensible Fluency Instruction מאת Michael Opitz The author dispels the misinformation that has arisen about fluency since the National Reading Panel named it as a key element of reading and helps teachers explore and understand their role in supporting students who read with appropriate speed, accuracy, expression-and comprehension. The book equ...

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Complete Year in Reading and Writing: Grade 4: Daily Lessons - Monthly Units - Yearlong Calendar מאת Laurie Pastore At the beginning of every school year, we bet you ask yourself, OWhat do I want my students to know and do as readers and writers by the end of this year?O This bookNjust for Grade 4Nmakes that question easy to answer by taking all the guesswork out of teaching reading and writing. Provides a detail...

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But How Do You Teach Writing?: A Simple Guide for All Teachers Barry Lane

But How Do You Teach Writing?: A Simple Guide for All Teachers מאת Barry Lane Through anecdote, classroom vignette, and his own experience as a writer and teacher, Barry encourages teachers of any grade level to start a writing program tomorrow and not wait until they have attained perfect understanding. Barry's motto: Let's learn along the way! For use with Grades K-12....

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Transforming Literacy Practices in Preschool: Research-Based Practices That Give All Children the Opportunity to Reach Their Potential as Learners מאת Lea M. McGee When preschool children receive high-quality literacy instruction, it benefits their emotional and cognitive development enormously. But what does ""high-quality literacy instruction"" look like? In this research-based, yet practical resource, Lea McGee answers this important question. She shares fi...

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Your Core Reading Program & Children's Literature: Effective Strategies for Using the Best of Both מאת Diane Barone Through this pragmatic approach to core reading programs and literature-based instruction teachers are offered opportunities to effectively use both to enhance their students' literacy instruction and learning. The authors select various sample themes and lessons from existing core programs. From th...

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Launching the Writing Workshop: A Step-by-Step Guide in Photographs מאת Denise Leograndis Classroom teacher, Leograndis uses full-color photographs with clear descriptions to show you how you can transform your classroom into a well-organized workshop that supports writing growth. You'll find unique and highly practical ideas for setting up and maintaining record systems and organizing s...

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Getting It Right: Fresh Approaches to Teaching Grammar, Usage, and Correctness (Theory and Practice) מאת Michael W. Smith The authors consider what grammatical concepts and correctness issues are most worth teaching and how to teach those concepts and issues deeply. They explain how to understand the causes of students' errors, how to address those causes through authentic and engaging activities, and how teachers ca...

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Look Who's Learning to Read: 50 Fun Ways to Instill a Love of Reading in Young Children מאת Shelley Harwayne Whether you are a parent, a teacher, a babysitter, a nanny, a daycare worker, or a grandparent, the activities in this book will help you spend joyous moments with the children in your care and help those children learn to read and write as naturally as they have been learning to walk and talk. For ...

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Your Core Reading Program & Children's Literature: Effective Strategies for Using the Best of Both מאת Diane Barone Through this pragmatic approach to core reading programs and literature-based instruction teachers are offered opportunities to effectively use both to enhance their students' literacy instruction and learning. The authors select various sample themes and lessons from existing core programs. From th...

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The Next Step in Guided Reading: Focused Assessments and Targeted Lessons for Helping Every Student Become a Better Reader מאת Jan Richardson Teachers facing the challenge of meeting the diverse reading needs of students will find the structure and tools they need in Jan Richardson's powerful approach to guided reading. Richardson has identified the essential components of an effective guided reading lesson: targeted assessments, dat...

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Complete Year in Reading and Writing: Kindergarten: Daily Lessons - Monthly Units - Yearlong Calendar מאת Karen McNally At the beginning of every school year, we bet you ask yourself, OWhat do I want my students to knowand do as readers and writers by the end of this year?O This bookNjust for KindergartenNmakes that question easy to answer by taking all the guesswork out of teaching reading and writing. Provides a d...

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Creating the Best Literacy Block Ever: A Framework for Successfully Managing, Teaching, and Assessing in an Extended Literacy Block מאת Maryann Manning Literacy scholar Maryann Manning together with Nationally Board Certified teachers Deborah Camp and Gayle Morrison bring new energy, efficiency, and effectiveness into the 60-90-minute literacy block with a flexible 3-part framework that supports intentional teaching, peer interactions, and independ...

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Unwrapping the Read Aloud: Making Every Read Aloud Intentional and Instructional (Theory and Practice in Action) מאת Lester Laminack With this book and DVD, Laminack invites you to join him in an effort to reclaim the read aloud for students as one of the most potent instructional moments of the school day. To get the most from our read alouds and make every aspect of reading aloud intentional, he believes that we must be as thou...

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Complete Year in Reading and Writing: Grade 3: Daily Lessons - Monthly Units - Yearlong Calendar מאת Abi Gotthelf At the beginning of every school year, we bet you ask yourself, OWhat do I want my students to know and do as readers and writers by the end of this year?O This bookNjust for Grade 3Nmakes that question easy to answer by taking all the guesswork out of teaching reading and writing. Provides a detail...

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Mastering the Mechanics: Grades 2-3: Ready-to-Use Lessons for Modeled, Guided and Independent Editing מאת Linda Hoyt At last, a collection of smart, breakthrough lessons that help you teach your students all the essential editing skills they need to create successful, polished writing. Each grade level specific book features a Year Long Planner that helps you chart your instruction across the school year, an indis...

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Complete Year in Reading and Writing: Grade 2: Daily Lessons - Monthly Units - Yearlong Calendar מאת Patty Vitale-Reilly At the beginning of every school year, we bet you ask yourself, OWhat do I want my students to know and do as readers and writers by the end of this year?O This bookNjust for Grade 2Nmakes that question easy to answer by taking all the guesswork out of teaching reading and writing. Provides a detail...

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Writing Above Standard: Engaging Workshop Lessons That Take Standards to New Heights and Help Kids Become Skilled, Inspired Writers מאת Debbie Lera Harness the power of a writing workshop that relies upon a standards-based foundation while still embracing active learning and student inquiry. Teachers benefit from the structure provided by the standards and, at the same time, enjoy flexibility that enables them to respond to the unique needs and...

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The Complete 4 for Literacy מאת Pam Allyn This book provides an organizational framework, detailed models, lessons and practical support for mapping and building grade-specific curriculum across the school year through four major types of units of study—strategy, process, genre, and conventions—that integrate reading and writing. Allyn ...

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Complete Year in Reading and Writing: Grade 1: Daily Lessons - Monthly Units - Yearlong Calendar Jaime Margolies

Complete Year in Reading and Writing: Grade 1: Daily Lessons - Monthly Units - Yearlong Calendar מאת Jaime Margolies At the beginning of every school year, we bet you ask yourself, OWhat do I want my students to know and do as readers and writers by the end of this year?O This bookNjust for Grade 1Nmakes that question easy to answer by taking all the guesswork out of teaching reading and writing. Provides a detail...

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Teacher's Essential Guide Series: Content Area Writing מאת Jim Burke The Teacher's Essential Guide to Content Area Writing leads the reader through Burke's teaching strategies, which draw from a combination of research and Jim's own experience as a public school teacher. He includes invaluable techniques to improve student writing as well as strategies to simply prom...

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Teaching Teens and Reaping Results in a Wi-Fi, Hip-Hop,Where-Has-All-the-Sanity-Gone World: Stories, Strategies, Tools, and Tips from a Three-Time Teacher of the Year Award Winner מאת Alan Sitomer How do you prepare teens for the world filled with jobs, technologies, and challenges that don't even yet exist? Take a pull-no-punches, inspirational trip inside the classroom of Three-Time Teacher of the Year award winner and celebrated young adult novelist Alan Lawrence Sitomer. Hear stories, dis...