- Three clear levels of differentiation throughout ensure you provide the right work for every child - Stimulating activities, role plays and group work including comprehension, speaking and listening, and writing will get your pupils thinking, talking and writing - Lots of ideas for planning and writing stories, articles and poems - Top children's authors will grab your pupils' attention and ensure they love reading
Written by teachers for teachers to perfectly support the renewed framework, 'Collins Primary Literacy' is a whole school language program that builds key reading, writing, speaking and listening skills through structured creative work. It provides teaching ideas and clear assessment for every unit, so that you can focus on teaching.
Primary-grade teachers face an important challenge: teaching children how to read while enabling them to build good habits so they fall in love with reading. Many teachers find the independent reading workshop to be the component of reading instruction that meets this challenge because it makes it possible to teach the reading skills and strategies children need and guides them toward independence, intention, and joy as readers. In Growing Readers, Kathy Collins helps teachers plan for independent reading workshops in their own classrooms. She describes the structure of the independent reading workshop and other components of a balanced literacy program that work together to ensure young students grow into strong, well-rounded readers. Kathy outlines a sequence of possible units of study for a yearlong curriculum. Chapters are devoted to the individual units of study and include a sample curriculum as well as examples of mini-lessons and reading conferences. There are also four "Getting Ready" sections that suggest some behind-the-scenes work teachers can do to prepare for the units. Topics explored in these units include:print and comprehension strategies;reading in genres such as poetry and nonfiction;connecting in-school reading and out-of-school reading;developing the strategies and habits of lifelong readers. A series of planning sheets and management tips are presented throughout to help ensure smooth implementation. We want our students to learn to read, and we want them to love to read. To do this we need to lay a foundation on which children build rich and purposeful reading lives that extend beyond the school day. The ideas found in Growing Readers create the kind of primary classrooms where that happens.
Written by teachers for teachers to perfectly support the renewed framework, 'Collins Primary Literacy' is a whole school language program that builds key reading, writing, speaking and listening skills through structured creative work. It provides teaching ideas and clear assessment for every unit, so that you can focus on teaching.
Written by teachers for teachers to perfectly support the renewed framework, Collins Primary Literacy is a whole school language program that builds key reading, writing, speaking and listening skills through structured creative work. It provides practical teaching ideas and clear assessment for every unit, so that you can focus on teaching. With fiction, non-fiction and poetry by best children's authors for your class to read and explore, Collins Primary Literacy provides engaging activities matched to the Renewed Framework that will save you time and give you lots of ideas. Each unit is built around three distinct phases - Engage, Explore and Create - during which children move through a learning pathway that develops key literacy skills. Active learning is at the heart of Collins Primary Literacy, with an emphasis on speaking, listening and drama work. Children are encouraged to work reflectively, with built-in opportunities for paired work and critical thinking. Opportunities for assessment are threaded throughout the teaching sequence, with further support given in the form of progress sheets for assessing writing.
First Published in 2000. At the start of the new millennium the definition of literacy has taken on multiple electronic possibilities. But this is a book about the foundations of literacy in orality, in the words, stories and culture of every individual. This book explores the relation of storytelling to literacy and the role of story in human life.
This comprehensive professional resource and text is based on cutting-edge research. In each chapter, leading scholars provide an overview of a particular aspect of comprehension, offer best-practice instructional guidelines and policy recommendations, present key research questions still to be answered, and conclude with stimulating questions for individual study or discussion. Coverage includes such timely topics as differentiated instruction, technology and reading comprehension, teaching English language learners, and the implications of current neuroscientific findings.
This book presents a practical and universal framework for the teaching of thinking skills and problem-solving across the primary curriculum, using examples of topics from the National Curriculum, classroom techniques, and tried-and-tested activities which systematically develop pupils' thinking and problem-solving skills. While accommodating the need of all learners to develop effective thinking skills, the book also caters to the need to differentiate learning activities to extend the more able learners. Written by a team of teachers who recognize the day-to-day problems that face their colleagues in the classroom, this accessible, jargon-free book will be welcomed by teachers, SENCOs and ABCOs alike.
Identifying what exemplary teachers know and do to promote literacy achievement at every grade level, this highly motivating book provides step-by-step guidance for professional development. It helps teachers assess their strengths and build their competencies in six key domains of literacy instruction directly linked to student success. Featuring skills-building exercises, sample lesson plans, book lists, and over a dozen reproducibles, the book illustrates specific actions that teachers can take to emulate their most effective colleagues in school districts around the country. New to This Edition * Revised and updated based on the authors' professional development work with over 20,000 educators. * Expanded to cover K–12 (prior edition covered K–5). * Now includes material for literacy coaches and administrators, as well as teachers. * "Teacher-in-Action" cases offer vivid snapshots of exemplary practices. *Many of the activities and reproducibles are new or revised.
