About the Reading Puzzle SeriesIn her best-selling book Teach Them All To Read, Elaine McEwan provides a great discussion of the most current reading research regarding how students learn to read so educators can make informed decisions about instruction. Research about reading has given us insight into the skills on which we need to focus our efforts to improve reading and comprehension. Now we can identify the skills that require reinforcement and intervene with explicit, thoughtful instruction. The activities in The Reading Puzzle series will help the teacher accomplish this goal.The Reading Puzzle series provides instructional tools teachers can use immediately as part of the reading curriculum. The Reading Puzzle series contains 10 books for Kindergarten through Grade 8 centered on the skills identified by the National Reading Panel as critical to reading success. Each of these books in the series helps unlock one piece of the reading puzzle and contains standards-based, ready-to-use activities that can be used to supplement any reading program.Phonemic Awareness, Grades K-3 Phonics, Grades K-3Vocabulary, Grades K-3Fluency, Grades K-3Comprehension, Grades K-3Word Analysis, Grades 4-8Spelling, Grades 4-8Vocabulary, Grades 4-8Fluency, Grades 4-8Comprehension, Grades 4-8These activity books contain ready-to-use activities that make it easy to put McEwan's highly-successful strategies into practice. The strategies and activities will support struggling readers and enhance existing skill to encourage improvement in all students' reading skills.Spelling, Grades 4-8 This book presents the spelling rules and their exceptions in a concise, fun, and interactive way with a variety of activities and games. Spelling 4-8 provides structured, teacher-directed spelling practice for upper elementary and middle-school students. Each chapter provides a teaching strategy that limits the amount of new information students receive at one time so they can internalize one spelling skill before moving onto another. The book is organized around common spelling rules. Each lesson contains an introduction to present the rule, activities and reproducibles to practice the rule, and an assessment to evaluate learning. The Spelling Rules Chart is a useful reference for students to use all year long! The book also contains a chapter called 'Assessments.' These assessments can be used formally to assess student learning or informally to determine what rules need to be taught.As students gain confidence in spelling proficiency, confidence in their writing ability will also grow. When students master the spelling rules contained in this book, they will be able to put more energy into their creative 'what' to put on paper, and not labor over 'how' to spell the words that appear on the page in front of them. Better spellers will become more effective, happy, and willing writers.
About the Reading Puzzle SeriesIn her best-selling book Teach Them All To Read, Elaine McEwan provides a great discussion of the most current reading research regarding how students learn to read so educators can make informed decisions about instruction. Research about reading has given us insight into the skills on which we need to focus our efforts to improve reading and comprehension. Now we can identify the skills that require reinforcement and intervene with explicit, thoughtful instruction. The activities in The Reading Puzzle series will help the teacher accomplish this goal.The Reading Puzzle series provides instructional tools teachers can use immediately as part of the reading curriculum. The Reading Puzzle series contains 10 books for Kindergarten through Grade 8 centered on the skills identified by the National Reading Panel as critical to reading success. Each of these books in the series helps unlock one piece of the reading puzzle and contains standards-based, ready-to-use activities that can be used to supplement any reading program.Phonemic Awareness, Grades K-3 Phonics, Grades K-3Vocabulary, Grades K-3Fluency, Grades K-3Comprehension, Grades K-3Word Analysis, Grades 4-8Spelling, Grades 4-8Vocabulary, Grades 4-8Fluency, Grades 4-8Comprehension, Grades 4-8These activity books contain ready-to-use activities that make it easy to put McEwan's highly-successful strategies into practice. The strategies and activities will support struggling readers and enhance existing skill to encourage improvement in all students' reading skills.Vocabulary, Grades 4-8Because vocabulary has been identified by the National Reading Panel (2000) as one of the critical areas of reading instruction, this book focuses on vocabulary instruction for all students, and especially those whose underdeveloped word knowledge negatively impacts their academic performance. This underperformance is characterized by a partial knowledge of word meanings, confusion of words of similar sound, and limited knowledge of how and when words are typically used. To help at-risk students, several essential instructional factors must be consciously addressed. This book has been designed to put theory and research into practice and provide students with the targeted and direct vocabulary instruction that they need. 'Word Selection and Definition' provides you, the teacher, with concrete ways to select vocabulary words and plan lessons. 'Take Five' includes presentation techniques so you can make the most of each lesson and provide an atmosphere in which all students will learn.'Extensive Reading Lessons' focuses on ways for students to improve their vocabulary in a natural way, through reading. 'Vocabulary Instruction Lessons' is dedicated to direct instruction of vocabulary words and contains a multitude of cumulative, sequential activities. These activities should be presented in sequence, as one activity builds on the other. 'Strategy Lessons' provides the 'best kept secrets' of good readers. At-risk learners and struggling readers should be taught these strategies explicitly and in order, with repeated practice. Some of these strategies include using context clues, prefixes, suffixes, and word bases in determining meaning. 'Word Awareness Lessons' focuses on increasing word consciousness. This final chapter provides activities to increase word awareness in all language tasks: listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
About the Reading Puzzle SeriesIn her best-selling book Teach Them All To Read, Elaine McEwan provides a great discussion of the most current reading research regarding how students learn to read so educators can make informed decisions about instruction. Research about reading has given us insight into the skills on which we need to focus our efforts to improve reading and comprehension. Now we can identify the skills that require reinforcement and intervene with explicit, thoughtful instruction. The activities in The Reading Puzzle series will help the teacher accomplish this goal.The Reading Puzzle series provides instructional tools teachers can use immediately as part of the reading curriculum. The Reading Puzzle series contains 10 books for Kindergarten through Grade 8 centered on the skills identified by the National Reading Panel as critical to reading success. Each of these books in the series helps unlock one piece of the reading puzzle and contains standards-based, ready-to-use activities that can be used to supplement any reading program.Phonemic Awareness, Grades K-3 Phonics, Grades K-3Vocabulary, Grades K-3Fluency, Grades K-3Comprehension, Grades K-3Word Analysis, Grades 4-8Spelling, Grades 4-8Vocabulary, Grades 4-8Fluency, Grades 4-8Comprehension, Grades 4-8These activity books contain ready-to-use activities that make it easy to put McEwan's highly-successful strategies into practice. The strategies and activities will support struggling readers and enhance existing skill to encourage improvement in all students' reading skills.Vocabulary, Grades K-3 Because vocabulary has been identified by the National Reading Panel (2000) as one of the critical areas of reading instruction, this book focuses on vocabulary instruction for all students, and especially those whose underdeveloped word knowledge negatively impacts their academic performance. This underperformance is characterized by a partial knowledge of word meanings, confusion of words of similar sound, and limited knowledge of how and when words are typically used. To help at-risk students, several essential instructional factors must be consciously addressed.This book has been designed to put theory and research into practice and provide students with the targeted and direct vocabulary instruction that they need. 'Choosing Appropriate Read-Alouds' helps you choose vocabulary-building books that children can learn from as well as enjoy.'Word Selection and Definition' provides you with concrete ways to select vocabulary words and plan lessons.' Take Five' includes presentation techniques so you can make the most of each lesson and provide an atmosphere in which all students will learn.'Extensive Reading Lessons' focuses on ways for students to improve their vocabulary in a natural way, through reading and listening to stories. 'Vocabulary Instruction Lessons' is dedicated to direct instruction of vocabulary words and contains a multitude of activities. These activities should be presented in sequence, as one activity builds on the other. 'Strategy Lessons' provides the 'best kept secrets' of good readers. Young learners, at-risk learners and struggling readers should be taught these strategies explicitly and in order, with repeated practice. Some of these strategies include using picture clues, context clues, prefixes, suffixes, and multiple-meaning word strategies in determining meaning. 'Word Awareness Lessons' focuses on increasing word consciousness. This final chapter provides activities to increase word awareness in all language tasks: listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
About the Reading Puzzle SeriesIn her best-selling book Teach Them All To Read, Elaine McEwan provides a great discussion of the most current reading research regarding how students learn to read so educators can make informed decisions about instruction. Research about reading has given us insight into the skills on which we need to focus our efforts to improve reading and comprehension. Now we can identify the skills that require reinforcement and intervene with explicit, thoughtful instruction. The activities in The Reading Puzzle series will help the teacher accomplish this goal.The Reading Puzzle series provides instructional tools teachers can use immediately as part of the reading curriculum. The Reading Puzzle series contains 10 books for Kindergarten through Grade 8 centered on the skills identified by the National Reading Panel as critical to reading success. Each of these books in the series helps unlock one piece of the reading puzzle and contains standards-based, ready-to-use activities that can be used to supplement any reading program.Phonemic Awareness, Grades K-3 Phonics, Grades K-3Vocabulary, Grades K-3Fluency, Grades K-3Comprehension, Grades K-3Word Analysis, Grades 4-8Spelling, Grades 4-8Vocabulary, Grades 4-8Fluency, Grades 4-8Comprehension, Grades 4-8These activity books contain ready-to-use activities that make it easy to put McEwan's highly-successful strategies into practice. The strategies and activities will support struggling readers and enhance existing skill to encourage improvement in all students' reading skills.Word Analysis, Grades 4-8 Welcome to the world of word analysis! This resource focuses on two areas of learning: essential linguistic patterns (the variations in how letters are pronounced), and essential morphographs (variations of what letters or groups of letters mean, such as prefixes, roots, and suffixes).The goal of the 'Linguistics' section of this book is to assist students in becoming fluent decoders. It will make them aware of patterns they can rely on to aid their decoding speed. You, the teacher, are a critical and vital part of the Linguistics section of this activity book. All of the activities in this section have an oral component. Many activities are geared for whole-class participation and are designed to help students internalize spelling patterns and decode words automatically. The goal of the 'Morphology' section of this book is to hone students' word-analysis skills. Morphology is the branch of linguistics that focuses on word structure and the changes in forms of words.This resource includes practice with root words, prefixes, and suffixes. Students will participate in both written and interactive activities to help them decipher unfamiliar words once they have memorized the meanings of roots, prefixes, and suffixes. Students will discover what a powerful tool word analysis can be!
Coaching Ourselves and Each Other to Be More Credible, Caring, and Connected
Effective communication is an essential skill for a fulfilled life, and we can't teach it to students if we don't know how to do it ourselves. In this reflection guide, the author delivers a framework for improving professional dialogue that is so clearly signposted, you might as well call it a day planner.
What Instructional Coaches Should Do to Foster Powerful Improvements in Teaching
Filled with key concepts, prompts, and exercises, this guide will prove indispensable to coaches who wish to accelerate progress and leaders of coaches looking for a simple, effective model to get all stakeholders on the same page. Join the hundreds of thousands of educators who already have benefited from Jim's ground-breaking work.
Learning to Teach and Teaching to Learn Through Practitioner Inquiry
This book helps educators everywhere to understand the importance of teacher inquiry and data analysis as pathways to amazing results in the classroom. It provides a step-by-step description of the classroom research process covering methods of formulating action research questions, collecting and analyzing data, and using it to create lasting solutions. It includes a range of real-life examples, practical exercises in every chapter and an accompanying website with extra resources. New to this edition: * Clear links between teacher inquiry and the creation of more equitable classrooms. * enhanced coverage of data analysis * using teacher inquiry to promote collective efficacy * the emergence of Professional Practice doctoral programs (a new market for Dana's work)
Strengthening Practice Through Knowledge, Story, and Metaphor
"Uses metaphor to connect the reader in a personal way with the intricacies of mentoring-a powerful catalyst for reflection." -Hal Portner, Educational Consultant "Sets the stage for the reader with a thoughtful, proactive context for carrying on the work of mentor." -Tom Ganser, Director, Office of Field Experiences, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater "What the text does so well is enable mentors to deeply consider their role and how they live this role within their interactions with new teachers." -Debra Pitton, Associate Professor of Education, Gustavus Adolphus College Deepen your mentoring practice with this innovative new approach! Effective mentoring requires planned and mindful attention to the ways in which one's knowledge, skills, and experience can be passed on to new teachers. Stressing the importance of deep reflection on one's mentoring practice, the award-winning authors offer eight models/metaphors that mentors can customize to meet the individual needs of their mentees. Proven strategies and real-life stories help teacher educators, trainers, and mentors to: Meet the diverse needs of mentor/mentee relationships Develop helpful mentoring tools Continue to reflect, learn, and grow as mentors This resource is sure to inspire critical conversation and fresh insights among all mentors committed to professional growth for themselves and their fellow teachers.
Strengthening Practice Through Knowledge, Story, and Metaphor
"Uses metaphor to connect the reader in a personal way with the intricacies of mentoring-a powerful catalyst for reflection." -Hal Portner, Educational Consultant "Sets the stage for the reader with a thoughtful, proactive context for carrying on the work of mentor." -Tom Ganser, Director, Office of Field Experiences, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater "What the text does so well is enable mentors to deeply consider their role and how they live this role within their interactions with new teachers." -Debra Pitton, Associate Professor of Education, Gustavus Adolphus College Deepen your mentoring practice with this innovative new approach! Effective mentoring requires planned and mindful attention to the ways in which one's knowledge, skills, and experience can be passed on to new teachers. Stressing the importance of deep reflection on one's mentoring practice, the award-winning authors offer eight models/metaphors that mentors can customize to meet the individual needs of their mentees. Proven strategies and real-life stories help teacher educators, trainers, and mentors to: Meet the diverse needs of mentor/mentee relationships Develop helpful mentoring tools Continue to reflect, learn, and grow as mentors This resource is sure to inspire critical conversation and fresh insights among all mentors committed to professional growth for themselves and their fellow teachers.
