One important part of the Common Core Standards for Reading is the ability to read two (or more) separate pieces of writing and then find their similarities and differences. This volume, penned by two teachers, provides that important piece of the Common Core Standards by including several lengthy pieces of writing that students can read and enjoy and then study, with a new eye for comparing and contrasting, using the provided interactive quiz questions and tips from an expert reader.
The Common Core Standards guide students through developing the skills they need to succeed throughout their education, whether it is in regular studies or on tests. This comprehensive volume includes lengthy passages from classic literature and historical documents, allowing readers to read, analyze, and understand the ideas, events, and individuals contained within each work. It includes some valuable hands-on tools, including quiz questions, expert guidance call-outs, and summaries that give readers a more interactive reading and learning experience that aligns with the Common Core.
The ability to recognize and analyze the structure and ideas behind a piece of writing is an enormous part of the Common Core Standard for Reading. The Common Core was developed to give readers and students the tools they need to succeed in school and in a career situation. This volume contains poetry by Robert Frost and Edgar Allan Poe and science writing excerpts, with quiz questions and advice from experts on how to best read and interpret the work.
The Common Core Standards for Reading were developed to help students read and analyze a piece of writing more effectively, giving them the tools they need to succeed on college applications, in college, and in the world of employment. One important factor of the reading standards is the ability to determine point of view and the purpose of a piece of writing. This volume provides guided lessons using excerpts from well-known pieces of writing, Core-focused quiz questions, and advice from an expert reader on how students can get the most out of their reading.
The Common Core curriculum is designed to make students better readers, writers, listeners, and critical thinkers. This volume fulfills that mandate by teaching readers how to assess if an argument's reasoning is sound and the evidence presented is valid, relevant, and sufficient. Identifying both the strengths and weaknesses of an argument, along with an author's point of view and possible intentions or agenda, students become better able to separate fact from opinion and reality from spin. They form educated opinions and become better, more persuasive presenters of their own arguments.
The Common Core standards were created to help readers get the most out of every book they read, inside and outside of the classroom. Training students to understand how to read critically is highly important and will help prepare them for college, career, and life beyond that. This engaging volume asks readers to look closely at individual passages of text, analyze their meaning, and look at the evidence that supports their meaning. Quiz questions create an interactive experience for readers, allowing them to get the most out of what they read.
Hare solves his family’s problems by tricking rich and lazy Bear in this funny, energetic version of an old slave story. With roots in American slave tales, Tops & Bottoms celebrates the trickster tradition of using one’s wits to overcome hardship. “As usual, Stevens’ animal characters, bold and colorful, are delightful. . . . It’s all wonderful fun, and the book opens, fittingly, from top to bottom instead of from side to side, making it perfect for story-time sharing.”--Booklist
The Common Core is an important tool that schools use to help students get the most out of everything they read. The ability to summarize text is one that is needed from the earliest reading comprehension lesson up through high school, college, and beyond. Lengthy nonfiction passages are included in this comprehensive volume, along with expert reader advice, quiz questions, and charts that help to guide the reader through using his or her newly discovered skills at the highest level.
"This updated text provides a wide range of instructional tools that are cleverly introduced, well-referenced, and clearly presented. The book gives preservice teachers an informative and practical introduction as they prepare to work with older students. As an excellent refresher for practicing teachers, it offers new approaches that can be incorporated into everyday inclusive classrooms. This resource will become bookmarked and dog-eared from both initial use and subsequent reference by serious educators." —Jean Lokerson, Faculty Emerita, School of Education Commonwealth University Keys for unlocking the doors to learning for ALL students! This updated edition of the best-selling book Successful Inclusion Strategies for Secondary and Middle School Teachers identifies "locks" to learning and provides targeted strategies, or "keys," that unlock learning barriers for adolescents with disabilities and other learning challenges. Based on empirical research, this basic guide is packed with field-tested, teacher-friendly approaches that support struggling students at various stages of academic development. Inclusion Strategies for Secondary Classrooms examines input locks (attention, perception, discrimination, and sequencing), processing/retention locks (confusion, organization, reasoning, memory), affective locks (frustration and motivation), and output locks (persistence and production), and explains why the key strategies work. This updated edition also discusses: What current research reveals about the unique teaching environment of secondary school classrooms The reauthorization of IDEA 2004 The impact of NCLB on special education How the key strategies can work at all levels of a Response to Intervention program Expanded applications for Universal Design for Learning Discover solutions that will help every student overcome obstacles to learning and develop the skills for academic success!
