Do you love teaching but feel exhausted from the energy you expend cajoling, disciplining, and directing students on a daily basis? If so, you'll want to meet "The Sisters," Gail Boushey and Joan Moser. Based on literacy learning and motivation research, they created a structure called The Daily Five which has been practiced and refined in their ...
The market leader in literacy education, Literacy for the 21st Century: A Balanced Approach continues to evolve to meet the needs of a changing world. Crafted for the undergraduate K-8 literacy course, this comprehensive and thoroughly applied text continues to cover the information new and experienced teachers need to know to teach literacy ...
For courses in Language Arts Methods for the Elementary School. With a powerful new CD-ROM, this sixth edition of the number one language arts text on the market offers comprehensive treatment of four classic instructional approaches to integrating all six research-identified language arts into school curricula. Calling approaches "patterns of ...
This book will help teachers solve the dilemma: What does the rest of my class do while I'm working with a small reading group? Debbie Diller offers practical suggestions for over a dozen literacy work stations that link to instruction and make preparation and management easy for teachers. Learn how to set up work stations, how to manage them, and ...
"Cunningham and Allington's voice and presentation style are unique, and I think this distinguishes their book from others. This book is an enjoyable and exciting read for my students. It makes them want to get out there and teach. They walk away from it with not only a sound set of teaching strategies, but a strong sense of why they would use ...
A guide to teaching comprehension, genre, and content literacy. It presents the basic structure of the language/literacy programme with in a framework that encompasses the building of community through language, word study, reading, writing, and the visual arts.
A writer's notebook is an essential springboard for the pieces that will later be crafted in writers' workshop. It is here that students brainstorm topics, play with leads and endings, tweak a new revision strategy, or test out a genre for the first time. In "Notebook Know-How," Aimee Buckner provides the tools teachers need to make writers' ...
In her 30 years as an educator, Debbie Diller has closely examined classroom practice, asking "Why? What's the purpose?" Watching primary students work successfully at literacy work stations, she wondered with teachers, "Why don't we have upper-grade students doing this? Could we kick it up a notch?" In her new book, Debbie shows teachers of ...
From Debbie Diller, author of numerous best-selling books and videos on literacy work stations and small group reading instruction, comes another practical resource filled with ideas you can use immediately to better manage your classroom and support student learning and independence. In "Spaces & Places "you'll find a wealth of full-color photos ...
Gay Su Pinnell and Irene Fountas understand that a high-quality curriculum is the important first step toward good teaching and successful learning. Good curriculum comes from knowing what students can do, can almost do, and need to learn how to do as readers, writers, and language users. In "The Continuum of Literacy Learning, Grades K - 8 "they ...
With superior coverage of standards and an emphasis on comprehensive reading instruction, Readingand Learning to Read, Seventh Edition, remains an active learning tool that encourages teachers to teach reading in ways that are both meaningful and reflective. This book promotes a comprehensive approach to teaching reading and writing with an ...
Updated for the 90s with all-new chapters on revising and editing, using writing portfolios in the classroom, and assessing student growth, this is "the" one-stop manual for understanding and working with the writing process, find fresh ideas for starting specific activities, and solving writing problems.
Side by Side, Third Edition, by Steven J. Molinsky and Bill Bliss, is a dynamic, all-skills program that integrates conversation practice, reading, writing, and listening -- all in a light-hearted, fun, and easy-to-use format that has been embraced by students and teachers worldwide. This four-level program promotes native communication between ...
The new edition of 50 Literacy Strategies: Step by Step by Gail E. Tompkins is a conveniently organized resource for all elementary and middle school teachers, providing research-based and classroom-tested strategies to develop literacy skills. Everything you need to know to implement each strategy effectively and quickly is included in a ...
For Elementary Reading Methods courses. This comprehensive and balanced look at literacy practice has long been one of the most popular reading methods texts available. The text begins by introducing seven principles for comprehensive reading instruction, and then explains the theoretical foundations of teaching reading. Part I builds on those ...
In schools of every description, teachers are working to turn their classrooms into reading-writing workshops. They're filling bookcases with the best of childrens literature, and students are tucking writers' notebooks into their bulging backpacks. This new look calls for meaningful change in teaching practice, but many questions about ...
Taking the mystery out of the writing process, this fun guide shows girls how to work creative writing into their schoolwork and journal writing. Illustrations.
"Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency, K - 8" is the next new breakthrough from Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell. Offering a complete picture of how to skillfully teach meaning making and fluency within any instructional context, "Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency, K - 8," supports you with frameworks for high-quality instruction that ...
An updated guide to literacy describes the Spalding Method, a total language arts approach to learning in which children are taught to read and write at the same time. Original.
Why is preparation so critical for reading teachers? Because research tells us that it's the teacher who makes the difference in effective reading instruction. Capable literacy teachers think about their teaching decisions, and they understand and meet the needs of individual students. The new edition of The Essentials of Teaching Children to ...
LITERACY FOR CHILDREN IN AN INFORMATION AGE was developed in response to the urgent need for a literacy methods book that is relevant in today's information-driven society. Cowen and Cohen present a modern, useful text that defines literacy using technology and meets the changing needs of Ka 12 instructors, providing practical tips for integrating ...
How do children's book authors create the wonder that we feel when reading our favorite books? What can students and teachers learn from these authors and books if we let them serve as writing mentors? In "Mentor Texts," Lynne Dorfman and Rose Cappelli show teachers how to help students become confident, accomplished writers, using literature as ...
What makes a teacher outstanding? More than anything, it's a way of being with kids in the classroom that lets them know they're smart and capable of high achievement. When you combine this mind-set with effective instruction, teaching and learning are transformed. In "Teaching Essentials," Regie Routman gives us as much of a blueprint for ...
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