In this book, Nancy Akhavan details the stories and strategies that enabled her school to move from "under-performing" status to one in which students achieve and teachers have a whole new understanding of targeted instruction, sensitive assessment, and meaningful curriculum. There is much to appreciate in what she says, from her attention to "thinking small" and understanding the power of the details, her emphasis on planning and goal-setting, to the seriousness with which she takes the standards and incorporates them into the life of the classroom. Drawing on the work of the best in the business, Lucy Calkins, David and Yvonne Freeman, and Tony Alvarado, Akhavan made professional development the heartbeat of her school as she helped her faculty understand that their work begins and ends with continuous assessment of their students. Now she helps readers of her book learn: 
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<li>how child-centered assessment leads to strategic instruction</li> <li>how to best support multilingual learners</li> <li>how to organize for yearlong learning</li> <li>how to think through precise workshop instruction in minilessons</li> <li>how to develop meaningful curriculum around units of study</li> <li>how to create a vibrant school community where standards and accountability stem from regular assessment and examination of instructional practices.</li> </ul> Akhavan provides immediately useful information for any elementary teacher, principal, or curriculum developer. Read her book and understand how to use standards as a way to connect meaningful instruction to students, not as a bar that students have to reach or a barrier to real teaching and learning.

How to Align Literacy Instruction, Assessment, and Standards: And Achieve Results You Never Dreamed Possible

Reference

Akhavan, Nancy

Words, Language & Grammar

Heinemann

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Nancy Akhavan provides the inspiration, theory, and practical know-how that teachers need to support language development within a workshop setting. By creating structures that capture time for rich talk and student thinking, she brings English learners into full participation in the classroom community. - Laurie Pessah, Teachers College Reading and Writing Project </ul> Today more nonnative speakers are entering classrooms than ever before. Some may be encountering English for the first time; some may understand written or spoken English but have difficulty communicating in it; and others may be well on their way to fluency but need guidance in specific language skills. To meet these students' needs while addressing the many, varied needs of those who already speak English as their primary language you'll have to think about your teaching differently. Help! My Kids Don't All Speak English can help. Help! My Kids Don't All Speak English offers an exciting new take on English language instruction - the language workshop. Language workshop focuses on the specific language needs of every child, allowing you the flexibility to scaffold instruction by modeling specific uses of language, posing problems and ideas that expand kids' language skills, and teaching specific thinking strategies. Students will find the guidance and opportunity necessary for acquiring language, learn the structures of discussion and debate, and think through ideas and texts. Nancy Akhavan details how to make language workshop happen in your classroom, sharing frameworks and strategies that help children: 
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<li>share ideas, decisions, and understandings orally and in writing</li> <li>think critically by analyzing, synthesizing, and comparing texts</li> <li>acquire and apply the conventions of English</li> <li>gain language skills through authentic literacy lessons.</li> </ul> Warm, supportive, and complete with classroom-tested units of study, example workshop lessons, ready-to-use graphic organizers, and a rich booklist designed specifically for use with language workshop, Nancy Akhavan's Help! My Kids Don't All Speak English is going to make a difference to every member of your classroom.

Help! My Kids Don't All Speak English: How to Set Up a Language Workshop in Your Linguistically Diverse Classroom

English as a Second Language

In The Title I Teacher's Guide to Teaching Reading, K-3, Nancy Akhavan ,a Title I principal, takes a pragmatic, goal-oriented approach to meeting reading benchmarks. She illustrates instruction that looks beyond the government's free-lunch label to see exciting possibilities for every child, showing how: reading workshop and units of study can augment or supplement - yet not supplant - a textbook and improve children's reading; meaningful instructional routines foster good reading habits in students who don't come from homes with strong models of literacy; strategy-based instruction gives students the tools to move toward independence; careful scaffolding can help English learners raise their achievement; and well-planned, well-sequenced instruction makes it easier for teachers to document their activities for administrators. Throughout, Akhavan's encouraging, practical advice focuses on what's really important in helping stuggling students, on finding do able solutions to instructional problems, and on connecting your professional learning to your students' learnlng.

Teaching Reading in a Title I School, K-3

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

You know the challenges. In your Title I school you have students who are already at risk. Imagine what could happen if you could catch them up, forestall learning issues before they are entrenched, put them on equal footing with their peers. Nancy Akhavan has done it-in school after school. In Teaching Writing in a Title I School she shows you how to craft a rich literacy world where all your students thrive.  "The first step you can take is to teach them to write. Really. Teaching children to write well is the key to helping them express themselves. It's also a scaffold to guide their thinking and understanding. It just might solve your teaching problems. You can ensure that all children learn, and you can close the achievement gap." Nancy's guidance is as practical as it is effective. Her carefully crafted planning tools, lessons, and graphic organizers make writing workshop fit seamlessly into your day. Her classroom workshop routines promote student engagement and provide focus. You'll learn how to organize units of study using the lessons from your existing writing program. State standards and meaningful assessment suddenly become manageable. You'll also find effective intervention activities for students who struggle and tips for teaching English learners to write.  This book is a must-have resource for teaching to engage all your students, ensure learning, and effectively intervene when students need it. With its companion, Teaching Reading in a Title I School, individual teachers, teachers studying together in professional learning communities, and preservice teachers will find the tools they need to build literacy instruction that guides all their students to high achievement.

Teaching Writing in a Title I School, K-3

In Teaching Reading in a Title I School, Nancy Akhavan shows primary teachers why workshops are good for students, even those who struggle, and especially those who are English language learners. Drawing on her experiences as a principal, a reading staff developer, and a teacher, she shows us how teachers use reading and writing workshops successfully.  In Nancy's workshop, students record their thoughts after they read. The process of thinking and writing about their thinking "deepens their comprehension of the book and gives them practice with reading and writing strategies." Reading and writing are the work children need to do each day, and this is what happens in the well-designed and well-implemented workshops that Nancy creates.  Using carefully crafted planning tools, lessons, student samples, and graphic organizers, Nancy shows you what constitutes an effective workshop to make the workshop fit seamlessly into your day. She includes effective intervention tools and activities for struggling readers, as well as tips for working with English learners. With its companion, Teaching Writing in a Title I School, individual teachers, teachers studying together in professional learning communities, and preservice teachers will find the tools they need to build literacy instruction that guides all their students to high achievement.

A comprehensive guide to developing a rich vocabulary that helps children access and understand the core curriculum. Within powerful units that focus on conceptual vocabulary and span the school year, the author provides strategies, graphic organizers, ready-to-use overhead transparencies, individual record sheets, and clear explanations of the current research that shows why good instruction is central to students' word acquisition and future success. For use with Grades 2–6.

Accelerated Vocabulary Instruction: Strategies for Closing the Achievement Gap for All Students

Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching Strategies)

It's a matter of grave concern that many children do not learn to read or write well by the time they enter high school. However, as we strive to find ways to help them, the answer doesn't lie in leaving rich content behind. The most sensible course is to find ways to combine effective and purposeful strategy instruction with content studies. By addressing content and strategy instruction together, the self-contained elementary school teacher, or the departmentalized middle school teacher can teach reading and writing through content, keep kids engaged with school by immersing them in interesting material, and create a purposeful, student-centered curriculum. For use with Grades 4-8.

The Content-Rich Reading & Writing Workshop: A Time-Saving Approach for Making the Most of Your Literacy Block

Scholastic Teaching Resources: Theory and Practice

This is Balanced Literacy: Grades K-6Students learn to read and write best when their teachers balance literacy instruction. But how do you strike the&nbsp;right&nbsp;balance of skills and knowledge, reading and writing, small and whole group instruction, and direct and dialogic instruction, so that all students can learn to their maximum potential? The answer lies in the intentional design of learning activities, purposeful selection of instructional materials, evidence-based teaching methods, and in strategic groupings of students based on assessment data.&nbsp; Together, these create the perfect balance of high impact learning experiences that engage and excite learners. In this hands-on essential guide, best-selling authors Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Nancy Akhavan help you define that balance for your students, lighting the path to implementing balanced literacy in your classroom. Their plan empowers you to integrate evidence-based approaches that include:&nbsp; * Instructional materials comprised of both informational and narrative texts. *&nbsp;The best uses of instructional delivery modes, including direct and dialogic instruction. *&nbsp;Grouping patterns that work best to accomplish learning aims for different learners at different stages. *&nbsp;Instruction in foundational skills and meaning making, including oral language, phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, &nbsp;&nbsp;vocabulary, comprehension, and writing. * Technology used as&nbsp; a tool for increasing learning of a specific literary process.&nbsp;&nbsp; All the tips and tools you need to realize the goal of balanced literacy learning are included, with classroom videos that show strategies in action. Tap your intuition, collaborate with your peers, and put the research-based strategies embedded in this roadmap to work in your classroom to implement or deepen a strong, successful balanced literacy program. Grow as a reading and writing teacher while leading your students to grow as readers and writers.&nbsp;On-Your-Feet Guide: This is Shared Reading, Grades K-6 In this easy-to-use but comprehensive guide to Shared Reading, teachers will learn what shared reading is, how to prepare before, during and after shared reading, and how to assess it.&nbsp; In this On-Your-Feet Guide, teachers will find: <ul style="color: #333333; margin: 14px 0px; padding-left: 40px;"> <li>Lesson outline included with "What the teacher says/does and What the student does displayed side-by-side.</li> <li>An If-Then chart that helps teachers troubleshoot common problems.</li> <li>Student language frames for narrative and nonfiction text are included.</li> <li>Assessment advice and helpful hints</li> </ul>

BUNDLE: Fisher: This is Balanced Literacy + Fisher: On-Your-Feet Guide: This is Shared Reading (Corwin Literacy)

Fisher, Douglas

Frey, Nancy

Lapp, Diane K.

Johnson, Kelly

Corwin

Ready-to-go English Language Development tasks that focus on students "doing the doing" of talking, reading, listening, and responding. In recent years, the percentage of English Language Learners (ELLs) has increased in almost every state, so most teachers are faced with the challenge of teaching literacy to students acquiring English alongside English-speaking students. However, in many integrated learning situations, English Language Development (ELD) instruction is strikingly different than the teaching we provide students whose first language is English. The Big Book of Tasks for English Language Developmenthelps teachers meet that challenge head-on! Bestselling author and esteemed education consultant Nancy Akhavan shows that teaching multilingual learners requires changing our instruction to focus on practices that have high impact for students as they acquire language. Yet it's not about doing more-- it's about doing smarter. It's about having high expectations for all students and providing scaffolds to support students at all levels of English language proficiency as they learn and grow more confident. All the ready-to-go activities in the book <ul> <li>Center on active tasks where students do the thinking, talking, reading, and writing, with appropriate support</li> <li>Activate the domains of language -- listening, speaking, reading, and writing --&nbsp; and recognize that these do not develop at the same rate</li> <li>Honor the continuum of language development and build on what students cando</li> <li>Provide teaching tools such as learning targets, suggestions for when to use a task, basic instructions and "teacher talk" for launching a task, and "Watch Fors and Work-Arounds"&nbsp;</li> <li>Focus on the linguistic assets multilingual learners bring to the classroom and provide opportunities to help them collaborate with peers</li> </ul> With Nancy Akhavan's signature straightforward, teacher-friendly style, this book offers an uplifting reminder that with the right teaching strategies, educators can support multilingual learners to achieve their full potential and thrive in their learning journeys.

The Big Book of Tasks for English Language Development, Grades K-8: Lessons and Activities That Invite Learners to Read, Write, Speak, and Listen (Corwin Literacy)

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Watch multilingual students excel with high-engagement reading lessons 
Students acquiring English tend to bust every stereotype. The truth is, these learners come to school with linguistic assets, not deficits. They will excel with lively, just-right challenge lessons, and they thrive with opportunities to collaborate with peers. In this authoritative resource, bestselling author Nancy Akhavan shows teachers how to support students at the small-group table in acquiring English as well as developing as readers―simultaneously. Ready-to-go tools include: Essential background on the five stages of language acquisition How-tos for differentiating instruction based on students’ levels of language proficiency as well as their reading proficiency Lesson sequences integrating oral language, phonics, spelling, vocabulary, word work, comprehension, and writing about reading Routines that augment talk about texts so multilingual learners can verbalize their knowledge and articulate thinking A companion website and multimodal scaffolds to support students across reading, writing, speaking, and listening 
When we gather at the reading table, we have just twenty minutes―we need to make it count. Now we can.

Small Group Reading With Multilingual Learners: Differentiating Instruction in 20 Minutes a Day (Corwin Literacy)

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Books by Akhavan, Nancy

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How to Align Literacy Instruction, Assessment, and Standards: And Achieve Results You Never Dreamed Possible

Help! My Kids Don't All Speak English: How to Set Up a Language Workshop in Your Linguistically Diverse Classroom

Teaching Reading in a Title I School, K-3

Teaching Writing in a Title I School, K-3

Teaching Reading in a Title I School, K-3

Accelerated Vocabulary Instruction: Strategies for Closing the Achievement Gap for All Students

The Content-Rich Reading & Writing Workshop: A Time-Saving Approach for Making the Most of Your Literacy Block

BUNDLE: Fisher: This is Balanced Literacy + Fisher: On-Your-Feet Guide: This is Shared Reading (Corwin Literacy)

The Big Book of Tasks for English Language Development, Grades K-8: Lessons and Activities That Invite Learners to Read, Write, Speak, and Listen (Corwin Literacy)

Small Group Reading With Multilingual Learners: Differentiating Instruction in 20 Minutes a Day (Corwin Literacy)