For less proficient readers, going to school can often feel like humiliating drudgery. But you can help every student see reading as an opportunity, not an obligation. In Readers for Life Danny Brassell shows you the way with smart advice on how to guide children toward becoming lifelong lovers of reading without completely overhauling your curriculum or discarding your daily routines. Help kids learn to love reading, not avoid it. Use the dozens of effective strategies in this quick, practical guide and turn your classroom into a reading—fitness powerhouse. Trust Danny Brassell and inspire every student to become a Reader for Life. Readers for Life provides proven, easy–to–use strategies to help you improve your literacy curricula, increase your students’ joy of reading, and implement a community–volunteer program in your classroom. Best of all, Brassell demonstrates how you can do it in just one hour a week. Help kids learn to love reading, not avoid it. Use the dozens of effective strategies in this quick, practical guide and turn your classroom into a reading—fitness powerhouse. Trust Danny Brassell and inspire every student to become a Reader fors Life.

Readers for Life: The Ultimate Reading Fitness Guide, K-8

Education & Teaching

Brassell, Danny

Schools & Teaching

Heinemann

Elementary classroom teachers across the nation face a number of daily challenges. Today, schools require educators to teach a wide range of objectives covering a variety of curricular areas, and vocabulary instruction is not always a teacher’s top priority. Many teachers wonder how much time to spend on explicit vocabulary instruction. Still, more express concerns over how best to assess student mastery of vocabulary terms. There is not a "one-size-fits-all" vocabulary program that works everywhere for everyone. A healthy vocabulary diet includes multiple approaches to accommodate all learners. This innovative book includes a variety of strategies for teachers interested in enhancing their students’ vocabulary growth.

Vocabulary Strategies Every Teacher Needs to Know

Reference

Flood,James

Words, Language & Grammar

ACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

All teachers need quick and handy tricks to engage their students. Whether you're dealing with kindergartners or 12th graders, teaching English Language Learners or honors students - songs, chants and morning meetings are awesome tools to involve students in meaningful ways that are sure to produce greater results in your classroom! “Danny Brassell is fast-paced, motivating, inspiring and filled with excellent content. Teachers (pre-K to high school) find themselves laughing, singing and learning in a fun and engaging way.” - Susan Parkins, Special Education Council Alberta Teachers’ Association Calgary, Alberta, Canada “Danny Brassell is engaging and energetic…his information and activities are research-based and applicable across all grade levels and content areas. There is never a dull moment during his workshops. Danny even had the high school coaches engaged and singing along with him on a hot, summer afternoon!” - Marilyn Brown, Director of Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment Taft, California

Songs, Chants and Morning Meetings: 55 Ways to Energize and Inspire Your Students

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Twenty-five creative and engaging activities for developing vocabulary in grades K–6 address a wide range of skills, interests, and needs. For each research-based activity, teachers get easy-to-implement instructions and suggestions for differentiation. Lively classroom vignettes show the vocabulary-building ideas at work across the curriculum, in reading, writing, science, math, and social studies lessons. Helpful tools include sample worksheets, examples of student work, and resource lists.

Dare to Differentiate, Second Edition: Vocabulary Strategies for All Students

The Guilford Press

This highly practical resource for K–6 teachers is packed with 25 classroom-tested, step-by-step strategies for developing word knowledge. The emphasis throughout is not only on teaching new words, but also on strengthening students’ comprehension and long-term vocabulary acquisition. Especially valuable are guidelines for how to differentiate each strategy so it can be used successfully with English language learners and students at varying proficiency levels. In a large-size format for easy photocopying, the book features helpful print and Web resources for each strategy, along with 20 reproducible worksheets.

Dare to Differentiate: Vocabulary Strategies for All Students (Teaching Practices That Work)