Although teachers have been using the Reading Workshop approach successfully for years, until now there hasn't been a step-by-step guide for implementing the strategies in the upper elementary classroom. Laura Candler's Power Reading Workshop offers an easy classroom-tested method for using Reading Workshop in your own classroom. You'll learn how to motivate readers by providing time for independent reading and reading conferences. As a result, your students will learn to love reading, and you'll improve reading test scores at the same time! In addition, this book includes a dozen Power Tools that allow you to differentiate your reading instruction for all students. The strategies have been thoroughly tested in grades 2 through 6 and will work well at those levels with little modification. Middle School and High School teachers may also be able to use the strategies, but they may need to modify them slightly for their students or their teaching situation. Highlights of Laura Candler's Power Reading Workshop: A Step-by-Step Guide Step-by-step directions for the first 10 days of Reading Workshop How to upgrade your basic Reading Workshop to a Power Reading Workshop How to differentiate reading instruction using the Reading Power Tools A list of suggested books for reading mini lessons Hints for organizing reading instruction Tips for reading aloud to your students Information about how to conduct reading conferences Ready-to-print activity pages to make each step easy-to-implement Customizable online forms Special activities like Book Buzz and Magazine Power Hour How to help students set appropriate reading goals Once again, Laura Candler has created an easy-to-use guide that allows teachers to quickly start and properly implement a Power Reading Workshop. Her lessons provide students with activities that encourage creativity and foster success. Students develop a love for reading, while learning to choose readings that are varied. With the new Common Core State Standards, I am excited to implement this workshop again next year because it fits perfectly with these new standards. --Joelle Eden, 4th grade teacher, --Joelle Eden, 4th grade teacher I cannot tell you how much I have LOVED using the Power Reading Workshop program this year. I will confess that I got very nervous right before our state testing, but the results came in last week, and I am thrilled with the test score results! ALL of my students passed, even the ones that receive special services (such as Early Intervention, RTI, etc.). But what really excites me is how many student scores went up from the Meets category to the Exceeds category! Now you have a Forever Fan in me, Laura! --Jenny Owens, 4th grade teacher, GA I was able to begin using your materials and Reader's Workshop beginning 2nd semester last year. By the end of the 3rd quarter my students were hooked, and so was I. The students who were already readers were, of course, thrilled to have time to read books of their choice. The students who had been less enthusiastic readers turned into kids who asked for reading time, chose to read when they had a spare moment, and who groaned when Reader's Workshop time ended. Wow! What a difference! --Jewelia Oswald, KS

Laura Candler's Power Reading Workshop: A Step-by-Step Guide

Education & Teaching

Candler, Laura

Schools & Teaching

Raphel Marketing, Incorporated

Laura Candler’s Graphic Organizers for Reading: Teaching Tools Aligned with the Common Core is your guide to using graphic organizers to teach Common Core Reading Standards. Award-winning teacher Laura Candler has not only created a wealth of new graphic organizers, she gives step-by-step instructions on how to use each one. Everything you need—reproducible graphic organizers, charts, and even suggested books and texts—are included to help you get started right away. Teachers around the world have used Laura’s techniques with impressive results. That’s what makes her programs “field tested and teacher approved.” “The book is packed with wonderful, easy-to-use graphic organizers and strategies for building critical thinking skills. The section that aligns graphic organizers with Common Core standards is exceptional. I highly recommend this wonderful resource. WOW!” —Dr. Connie Hebert, National Literacy Consultant/Author/Reading Program Instructor

Laura Candler's Graphic Organizers for Reading: Teaching Tools Aligned with the Common Core

Brigantine Media

This is the book on cooperative learning and primary science! Have your primary students learn science by doing science! You will integrate process science with cooperative learning. Your students will classify, communicate, experiment, identify, infer, measure, make models, observe, organize data, and make predictions with these excellent cooperative learning science lessons. Lessons cover popular primary science topics such as: rainbows, magnets, senses, leaves, electricity, rain forest, seeds, sounds, fish, helicopters, rocks, temperature. Proven step-by-step cooperative lessons for primary science with reproducible blackline masters.

Cooperative Learning & Wee Science, Grades K-3

Robertson, Laurie

Science & Math

Kagan Cooperative Learning

The best cooperative learning and science book for the elementary and middle grades! Use cooperative learning to teach both science content and process skills. The book includes a complete overview of cooperative learning and co-op structures, cooperative process science, and 15 fantastic step-by-step, hands-on cooperative learning lessons. Loaded with curriculum and literature links, science journal ideas, activities, and ready-to-use blackline masters.

Cooperative Learning & Hands-On Science, Grades 3-8

Children's Books

Education & Reference

Students and parents share the excitement of science discovery with simple and safe send-home investigations. Each activity has a teacher page complete with an overview, ideas for introducing the activity, answers, and cooperative classroom follow-up ideas and a send-home blackline with step-by-step directions, activity illustrations, and discussion questions. Perfect for parental involvement and in-class success. Science investigations are also terrific for the classroom.

Science Buddies, Grades 3-8

This book has ready-to-use cooperative activities and blackline masters for teaching every decimal concept: Understanding, reading and writing, comparing and ordering, placing, rounding, estimating, adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, converting decimals into fractions and percents, and solving real life decimal problems. Base 10 manipulatives are incorporated in the activities to teach for understanding.

Discovering Decimals through Cooperative Learning, Grades 3-8

Kagan Publishing

Laura Candler's Mastering Math Facts - Multiplication &amp; Division: Aligned with the Common Core is a proven method for helping students achieve mastery of multiplication and division math facts. The program includes five components to help all your students become Math Facts Masters: - Alignment with the Common Core State Standards for Math Content and Practice - Lessons and activities to teach foundational multiplication and division concepts - Step-by-step instructions for the motivational system to ensure that every student in your class succeeds - Assessment techniques to keep students on track to achieve proficiency with the math facts - Math games and other strategies to make learning math facts fun Whether you teach third, fourth, or fifth grade, you will find Mastering Math Facts Multiplication &amp; Division the best method to use for teaching the topic and reinforcing struggling students. Everything you need is included in the book reproducibles, patterns, activity sheets, games, and assessment materials. I started the Mastering Math Facts program just a week ago and my kids are already starting to learn the multiplication facts! They are actually excited every day to take the quiz. So easy to get started in the classroom. An awesome product! --Elaine Laws, Third Grade Teacher I have used Mastering Math Facts with both fourth and fifth grade. It doesn't matter how well they know the math facts when we start everyone learns them by December. We do the daily drill using white boards and a weekly fact test on Fridays that's random. A great resource that I use every year. --Tisa Fischer, Fifth Grade Teacher This was, by far, the easiest way to teach multiplication I've ever used. The students had nothing but positive comments, with most of them saying, Now I get it!; This was the first year that my students learned the multiplication facts to 12 by December! --Sharon Manka, Third Grade Teacher

Laura Candler's Mastering Math Facts: Multiplication & Division Aligned with the Common Core

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