Texts and Lessons for Spot-On Writing About Reading
The author of the bestselling CCC 3-5 and Booster Lessons shares lessons, student reproducibles, and high interest texts that target the 6 key skills of analytical reading and writing. It's the writing about reading book the field has been waiting for. Understanding Character, Point of View, Visuals, Words and Structure, and more. Each lesson contains a valuable test-readiness tip box so teachers can prepare students to do well on standardized tests through authentic practice.
35 Lessons That Teach Students to Analyze Fiction and Nonfiction
Laura Robb shares 35 lessons and 45 reproducibles that make it easier for teachers to train their students to read, talk, and write about texts independently. She includes model lessons for introducing the fundamentals of productive whole class, small group, partner, turn and talk, teacher/student conversation. Other lessons use the 6 short texts in the book to address literary elements, text features and structures, reading strategies, and vocabulary - all through discussion, brief writing about reading, and an emphasis on analytical thinking.
A Guide for Leaders in Linguistically Diverse Schools
In our knowledge-based society, K-8 students need to develop increasingly sophisticated skills to read, write, and speak for a wide variety of purposes and audiences. Including an extended case example from a linguistically diverse school (nearly 75% English learners), this book guides school leaders to design and implement advanced literacy ......
The Teaching Framework for ANY Text and EVERY Reader
Teachers can access 30 lessons organized by text complexity, reproducible forms, assessments, and a bank of engagement tools. These lessons can be used across the year as a warm up to a whole-class novel, to augment a core reading program, to challenge capable readers and bring striving readers in to rich yet accessible reading experiences.
Strategies That Help Readers Take Charge [Grades K-8]
Mindsets & Moves is the guide to how to let go of your default roles of assigner, monitor, and inspector and instead shift to a growth mindset by following the 4Ms: Miner: Uncovering Students' Reading Processes (Focus: Assessment) Mirror: Giving Feedback That Reinforces a Growth Mindset (Focus: Feedback) Model: Showing Readers What We Do (Focus: Demonstration] Mentor: Guiding Students to Try New Ways of Reading (Focus: Guided Practice and Coaching) Easily replicable in any setting, any time, the 4 M framework ultimately lightens the load because they allow students to monitor and direct their reading lives. The book is full of practical examples, lessons, reading process and strategy lists, and a 35-page photo tour of exemplary reading classrooms with captions that distill best practices.
Using Web 2.0 Tools to Teach the Common Core Literacy Standards is a practical text aimed at demonstrating how teachers can integrate technology into their curriculum in order to meet the English Language Arts Standards and literacy standards for History and Science. Grounded in solid pedagogical theory, the book offers concrete strategies and lesson ideas. The ideas presented can be scaffolded to meet the needs of a wide range of student abilities in grades 6-12.
This latest volume in the Extraordinary Brain series represents a joint effort between researchers and practitioners to shape the future of early reading intervention by taking stock of the present and making recommendations for the future.
The essential comprehensive textbook for preparing to teach literacy skills across content areas to students in grades 6-12. The perfect first text on adolescent literacy, this expertly organised volume covers all the fundamentals of how reading and writing skills develop in older students and how to teach literacy.
Organized by the Anchor Standards in each category covering reading, literature, informational text, Foundational Reading Skills, writing, speaking and listening and language, this book will aid teachers working across grade levels. It features a range of support material including: Resources Common Core Recommended Reading Lists Text Complexity Tool Planning Calendar Templates Teacher Notes
