A Classroom Teacher's Guide to Struggling Writers

A Classroom Teacher's Guide to Struggling Writers

Author: Curt Dudley-Marling

Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780325007656

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If you are an elementary teacher who struggles with struggling readers, Curt Dudley-Marling and Patricia Paugh provide you with quick, effective answers to your toughest questions.


A Classroom Teacher's Guide to Struggling Readers

A Classroom Teacher's Guide to Struggling Readers

Author: Curt Dudley-Marling

Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13:

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Plus A Classroom Teacher's Guide to Struggling Readers has a complete discussion on how to help students even when you are locked into a basal program."--Jacket.


Supporting Struggling Learners

Supporting Struggling Learners

Author: Patricia Vitale-Reilly

Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books

Published: 2017-10-04

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9780325088785

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As teachers, how do you meet the needs of all your students while also meeting the demands of the curriculum? With over two decades of experience in the classroom as a teacher, staff developer, and national consultant, Patty Vitale-Reilly has been there. And with Supporting Struggling Learners, she shares 50 of her tried and true solutions that make learning accessible for all students. With these 50 instructional moves that can be applied across subjects and grades, Patty shows you how to make a positive impact on student thinking and learning. Loaded with practical tools and templates, including forms, checklists, questionnaires, and more, Supporting Struggling Learners provides strategies and structures to help you: create a clutter-free classroom environment that welcomes and supports each and every student harness the power of collaborative learning and small group instruction scaffold writing across the day utilize visuals in instruction and practice develop students' learning, communication, and study skills establish home-school connections that help support students. Make small changes in the classroom with moves geared to what the student needs most in that moment. Supporting Struggling Learners empowers you to implement effective instructional moves that make a big difference in your students' learning and in their lives.


Writing Strategies for All Primary Students

Writing Strategies for All Primary Students

Author: Janet C. Richards

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-02-08

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 0470937203

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A guide for teaching all your students the skills they need to be successful writers The 25 mini-lessons provided in this book are designed to develop students’ self-regulated writing behaviors and enhance their self-perceived writing abilities. These foundational writing strategies are applicable and adaptable to all primary students: emergent, advanced, English Language Learners, and struggling writers. Following the SCAMPER (Screen and assess, Confer, Assemble materials, Model, Practice, Execute, Reflect) mini-lesson model devised by the authors, the activities show teachers how to scaffold the writing strategies that students need in order to take control of their independent writing. Reveals helpful writing strategies, including making associations, planning, visualizing, accessing cues, using mnemonics, and more Offers ideas for helping students revise, check, and monitor their writing assignments Explains the author's proven SCAMPER model that is appropriate for students in grades K-3 Let Richards and Lassonde—two experts in the field of childhood education—guide you through these proven strategies for enhancing young children's writing skills.


Handbook of Reading Research

Handbook of Reading Research

Author: P. David Pearson

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 1108

ISBN-13: 9780805824162

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"The Handbook of Reading Research is the research handbook for the field. Each volume has come to define the field for the period of time it covers ... When taken as a set, the four volumes provide a definitive history of reading research"--Back of cover, volume 4.


Powerful Writing Strategies for All Students

Powerful Writing Strategies for All Students

Author: Karen R. Harris

Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13:

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Highly-effective, field-tested lesson plans that will help transform struggling elementary and middle school students into skilled writers


Teachers of Struggling Writers in the Upper Elementary Grades

Teachers of Struggling Writers in the Upper Elementary Grades

Author: Lisa Maucione

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13:

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This descriptive case study examined how teachers in an elementary school support struggling elementary writers. This study was guided by the central question: How do grade four and five teachers at a public elementary school in Massachusetts support struggling elementary writers as they learn to write through a process approach? The following questions helped to clarify the central question: (a.) What are these teachers' perceptions of struggling writers' difficulties and how to support them in learning to write? (b.) What instructional practices do these teachers implement to support struggling writers and scaffold their learning? (c.) How do these teachers structure the classroom environment to support struggling writers? (d.) What do teachers perceive needs to occur to further support struggling writers? (e.) How is teachers' instruction for struggling writers perceived by administrators? (f.) How are these teachers supported by administrators as they instruct struggling writers? Data was gathered from four teachers and two administrators within one elementary school through interviews, observations of teachers' writing instruction, and a review of teachers' lesson plans. Sociocultural theory provided a lens through which to examine the context of the study and inform the findings. Triangulation of the data revealed the following: teachers perceive writing to be a challenge for many of their students, teachers' implementation of the process approach varies, teachers provide some explicit instruction and supports for struggling writers, and there is a need to strengthen the teaching of writing for struggling writers. These findings have implications for educational practice that can help educators support struggling writers in their writing achievement.


Every Child Can Write, Grades 2-5

Every Child Can Write, Grades 2-5

Author: Melanie Meehan

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2019-09-20

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 1544384084

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Empowering striving writers to thrive as writers! Somehow, in every classroom during every year, there are students who keep us up at night because of the instructional challenges they face as writers. These students—our striving writers—may find success exploring different entry points and pathways than those their classmates travel. Every Child Can Write will help you lead striving writers along their journey toward growth, confidence, and success. Filled with practical strategies, classroom-management ideas,and reproducible tools, this book also offers low- and high-tech solutions for increasing writing volume and boosting self-esteem. Plus, with suggestions for differentiating instruction based on standards and student needs, it will help you: Implement principles of UDL to optimize your classroom environment and student learning; Identify and honor students’ strengths throughout your writing instruction; Maximize the power of formative assessment to set goals with students; and Integrate the most appropriate technology that empowers students and leads them to independence. As essential as writing is in elementary school, it will be even more important when your students reach middle school. Now is the time to give them the skills, practice, and confidence they need to succeed. As we know, in distance learning caregivers and teachers partner more than ever to help students with writing. The Distance Learning companion to Every Child Can Write is for teachers to share with caregivers to help children develop their writing lives—even while learning at home. Each of the eight modules contains video clips that talk caregivers through tools for supporting their student writers, along with downloadable tools that can be used by teachers or caregivers.


The Writing Revolution

The Writing Revolution

Author: Judith C. Hochman

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2017-08-07

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1119364914

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Why you need a writing revolution in your classroom and how to lead it The Writing Revolution (TWR) provides a clear method of instruction that you can use no matter what subject or grade level you teach. The model, also known as The Hochman Method, has demonstrated, over and over, that it can turn weak writers into strong communicators by focusing on specific techniques that match their needs and by providing them with targeted feedback. Insurmountable as the challenges faced by many students may seem, The Writing Revolution can make a dramatic difference. And the method does more than improve writing skills. It also helps: Boost reading comprehension Improve organizational and study skills Enhance speaking abilities Develop analytical capabilities The Writing Revolution is as much a method of teaching content as it is a method of teaching writing. There's no separate writing block and no separate writing curriculum. Instead, teachers of all subjects adapt the TWR strategies and activities to their current curriculum and weave them into their content instruction. But perhaps what's most revolutionary about the TWR method is that it takes the mystery out of learning to write well. It breaks the writing process down into manageable chunks and then has students practice the chunks they need, repeatedly, while also learning content.