Month-by-month Reading Instruction for the Differentiated Classroom

Month-by-month Reading Instruction for the Differentiated Classroom

Author: Maria P. Walther

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780545280693

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A year's worth of lessons for teaching reading in K-2! From the first 25 days of school, through each month, and straight to the end of the year--this resource has it all. Includes ready-to-go ActivInspire lessons for the interactive whiteboard!


Literacy Workshop

Literacy Workshop

Author: Maria Walther

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-10-10

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 1003844308

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The Literacy Workshop: Where Reading and Writing Converge is a first-of-its-kind resource that offers a practical process for creating an integrated literacy workshop using demonstration lessons that align with current curriculum standards. In this forward-thinking book, authors Maria Walther and Karen Biggs-Tucker share what they've learned over countless reading and writing workshops and combine into one literacy workshop. The authors demonstrate how you can save valuable classroom time while still empowering students to uncover exciting connections in their learning – leading to stronger, more motivational readers and writers. By weaving the common threads of literacy learning together, you can increase the time your students spend engaged in authentic reading and writing. Inside you'll find the following: A clear, succinct explanation of the literacy workshop structure, how to get started, and how to determine the best time to begin the merge 50+ demonstration lesson plans, appropriate for both primary and intermediate grade levels, that use strategies incorporating elements from recommended fiction and nonfiction anchor texts Substantial, printable resources and online tools to help make this instructional shift as smooth as possible. From the big picture to small, helpful details, The Literacy Workshop will be your guide as you blur the lines between your reading and writing workshops - creating space for students to apply their learning and practice the habits, behaviors, and actions of literate and engaged citizens.


Language Arts

Language Arts

Author: Pamela J. Farris

Publisher: Waveland Press

Published: 2019-01-08

Total Pages: 582

ISBN-13: 1478638796

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From the first edition to the latest, Language Arts: Process, Product and Assessment for Diverse Classrooms has presented sound language arts theory and methodology in a nonthreatening, straightforward manner at a reasonable price. Coverage focuses on the 2017 Standards for Literacy Professionals. Each chapter identifies and addresses the standards applicable to that chapter’s topics. Farris and Werderich infuse their foundational guidelines with the latest research, teaching practices, and assessment and evaluation techniques. Ideas for lesson plans, use of technological applications, internet resources, and comprehensive, up-to-date listings of children’s, young adult, and multicultural fiction and nonfiction titles are among the text’s outstanding features. Other features geared expressly for pre- and inservice teachers include: • Engaging, real-life classroom anecdotes • Instructional activities for reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing, and visually representing • Boxes containing teaching hints and mini lessons • Section on Response to Intervention (RtI) with the various tiers of intervention • Theories, instruction, and teaching activities for English language learners (ELLs) • Guidelines to meet the needs of special needs learners • Suggestions for literacy-based interdisciplinary instruction (including STEM and STEAM) • Examples of children’s work to help readers understand what to expect from different ages and ability levels • Questions and assignments to strengthen readers’ aptitude, awareness, and application of topics to real life


Month-by-month Reading Instruction for the Differentiated Classroom

Month-by-month Reading Instruction for the Differentiated Classroom

Author: Maria P. Walther

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780545280693

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A year's worth of lessons for teaching reading in K-2! From the first 25 days of school, through each month, and straight to the end of the year--this resource has it all. Includes ready-to-go ActivInspire lessons for the interactive whiteboard!


Comprehension from the Ground Up

Comprehension from the Ground Up

Author: Sharon Taberski

Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780325004112

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Why has comprehension instruction become so complex? Sharon Taberski cuts through the pressurized, strategy-overloaded, fluency-crazed atmosphere surrounding reading instruction to lay out the reading and writing workshop practices that are most effective in developing readers in the primary grades. She shares the daily how-tos needed to sustain a literacy block that engages children in authentic reading and writing practices including dozens of effective practices that illustrate amazing ways to organize instructional and independent reading for kids including: letter and sound searches that improve students' word accuracy and fluency companion books bags that develop their confidence and comprehension strategy sheets that make children's thinking about text concrete a Putting Our Strategies to Work Board that enables students to reflect on and discuss the meta-cognitive strategies they're using Idea Books and Ta-da Publishing Books that help children get inside the reading and writing process and see how each feeds the other. Two Options for dynamic DVD-based staff development: for your workshop or PLC, the Lessons from the Ground Up DVD features 105-minutes of video clips of Sharon in the classroom, modeling effective ways to develop comprehension plus a 64-page facilitator's guide supports the DVD, lesson by lesson. It's All About Comprehension is a long-term staff development initiative with 3 DVDs (7 hours) of whole-class, small-group, and one-on-one instruction from Sharon.


Traits of Writing

Traits of Writing

Author: Ruth Culham

Publisher: Teaching Resources

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780545013635

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Effective, easy-to-use tools for trait-based assessment and instruction--just for middle school teachers. Includes printable reproducible forms!


Six by Six: Traits Writing for Little Writers

Six by Six: Traits Writing for Little Writers

Author: Northern Nevada Writing Project

Publisher:

Published: 2015-06-09

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 9781512323283

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Our #2 Best-Selling Guide: Thirty-six writing lessons (six lessons for each of the six traits...six by six) contained on this guide's 158 pages. During 2008, this print resource was created by a dozen kindergarten and first grade teachers working together, determined to find a way to bring trait language to their students and classrooms.


Six by Six: Traits Writing for Little Writers

Six by Six: Traits Writing for Little Writers

Author: Northern Nevada Writing Project

Publisher:

Published: 2015-06-09

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 9781512322910

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Our #2 Best-Selling Guide: Thirty-six writing lessons (six lessons for each of the six traits...six by six) contained on this guide's 158 pages. During 2008, this print resource was created by a dozen kindergarten and first grade teachers working together, determined to find a way to bring trait language to their students and classrooms.