Author: Nancie Atwell Publisher: Teaching Resources ISBN: Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 146
Book Description
Long an advocate of frequent, voluminous reading in schools, the author draws on evidence gathered in twenty years of classroom teaching to make the case for reading workshop more powerful than ever. The book establishes the top ten conditions for making engaged classroom reading possible for students at all levels and provides the practical support and structures necessary for achieving them. For use with Grades K-12.
Author: The Princeton Review Publisher: Princeton Review ISBN: 110188228X Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 274
Book Description
SIMPLE STRATEGIES CAN MAKE YOU A BETTER READER. Being “good at reading” isn’t just about speed—it’s about being able to read through info, quickly sort out what’s important, and draw useful connections. That’s why we at The Princeton Review created Reading Smart, a book designed to help people who have a hard time keeping up with assignments, understanding novels, or even absorbing news articles. Reading Smart will give you the skills and strategies you need to read efficiently and build your confidence as both a reader and thinker. Within Reading Smart, you'll find: TECHNIQUES THAT ACTUALLY WORK. • Straightforward advice for boosting reading comprehension • Specific techniques and step-by-step approaches to all types of texts, from newspapers to novels to test passages • Tips for pacing yourself to get the most out of what you read • Comprehensive guidance on how to extract important information from passages, whether it’s big-picture concepts or key details PRACTICE YOUR WAY TO EXCELLENCE. • Reading comprehension drills and exercises in every chapter to help improve your scores on standardized and classroom tests • Sample passages to help you get comfortable with different kinds of texts • Bonus online drills to help reinforce the reading skills and strategies covered in the book
Author: Steven Wolk Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1003841864 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 363
Book Description
Imagine if going to school meant more than preparing kids for a test, teaching a canned curriculum, and training students for their future as workers. What if school were also about cultivating students to be caring, community-involved citizens and critical, creative thinkers who love to read? In Caring Hearts & Critical Minds, teacher-author Steven Wolk shows teachers how to help students become better readers as well as better people. I want [my students] to be thinkers and have rich conversations regarding critical issues in the text and be able to formulate opinions regarding these issues, says Leslie Rector, a sixth-grade teacher who collaborated with Wolk on some of the units featured in this book. Wolk demonstrates how to integrate inquiry learning, exciting and contemporary literature, and teaching for social responsibility across the curriculum. He takes teachers step-by-step through the process of designing an inquiry-based literature unit and then provides five full units used in real middle-grade classrooms. Featuring a remarkable range of recommended resources and hundreds of novels from across the literary genres, Caring Hearts & Critical Minds gives teachers a blueprint for creating dynamic units with rigorous lessons about topics kids care about'sfrom media and the environment to personal happiness and global poverty. Wolk shows teachers how to find stimulating, real-world complex texts called for in the Common Core State Standards and integrate them into literature units. I know from experience that a great book changes the reader, says Karen Tellez, an eighth-grade teacher featured in the book. For me, books have helped me escape, fall in love, recover from heartbreak, and have broken open my mind from the age of twelve. . . . I hope [my students] gain better reading comprehension, confidence as readers, connections to the characters and events, a curiosity for the world, and tolerance for others. Caring Hearts & Critical Minds shows teachers how to turn these hopes and goals into reality.
Author: David Wallace Booth Publisher: Pembroke Publishers Limited ISBN: 1551388014 Category : Educational leadership Languages : en Pages : 162
Book Description
This seminal guide to school literacy programs offers an overview of the most successful strategies education leaders can use to build a powerful reading schools.
Author: Reuven Feuerstein Publisher: Teachers College Press ISBN: 0807753270 Category : Cognition in children Languages : en Pages : 129
Book Description
The authors bring to life the theory of mediated learning. Through numerous examples and scenarios from classrooms and museums, they show how mediated learning helps children to become more effective learners. --from publisher description.
Author: Publisher: Capstone ISBN: 1625210590 Category : Languages : en Pages : 114
Book Description
Perfect for small group instruction geared toward Response to Intervention, BTR Zone: Bridge to Reading motivates reluctant and struggling readers with high-interest nonfiction focused on science, adventure, biography, history, and sports. With scaffolds such as on-page definitions, photographs, illustrations, captions, subheads, and informational graphics, BTR Zone books provide practice with the text features so important to understanding informational text. A teaching plan steeped in Common Core State Standards for Literacy provides instruction for vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, and authentic writing truly providing a bridge for students to become more strategic readers.
Author: Shelley Harwayne Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 100384376X Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 599
Book Description
When writing workshops first blossomed in classrooms, its hallmarks were genuine curiosity, individual choice, quality conversations, and engaging children's literature. A joyous hum of intention, creativity, and craft enlivened the school day. Today's teachers are often faced with a range of obstacles, as new initiatives are embraced, mandates handed down, and scripted programs are purchased. Sometimes teachers must sacrifice the original principles of the writing workshop and lose the creative venue they provide. Above and Beyond the Writing Workshop is filled with original writing challenges designed to bring back the spirit of the original writing workshop model and encourage teachers to enhance it with invention, innovation, and inspiration. Teaching creative writing is not only possible, but an important process in their instruction. Author Shelley Harwayne invites teachers to keep the workshop spirit alive by: Encouraging professional conversations on classroom ideas and methods between colleagues; Developing writing cues that allow young writers to be inquisitive, outspoken, and independent; Showing how high quality writing can make a difference; Offering an inspired and stimulating outlet for students to express their passions. Harwayne's book will help teachers encourage students to write the world around them, which can generate more critical thinking and make for a more well-rounded child.
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