Improving Writing: Resources, Strategies, and Assessments, by well-known and trusted authors Susan Davis Lenski and Jerry L. Johns, provides teachers with all the background they need to help students improve their writing skills. A variety of strategies, assessment ideas, and resources will meet diverse student needs. A quick reference guide helps educators choose a goal and identify possible strategies to teach. Each goal gives background information, multiple instructional strategies and resources.
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<li>Resources in this book include reproducible student worksheets, transparency masters, teacher and student examples, bolded text items, and technology tips in the form of Web site addresses.</li>
<li>Strategies throughout the text help students achieve the important life skill of written communication. These strategies and activities are carefully crafted to help students express their thoughts and ideas.</li>
<li>Assessments in the form of teacher self-assessments, student self-assessments, and rubrics are provided. Practical evaluative ideas, as well as cautions about becoming an audience of one, are given and explained.</li>
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This book is grounded in solid knowledge about writing and is appropriate for college and university courses, school district inservices, and staff development programs. Practicing teachers, prospective teachers, and professionals who fulfill special resource roles will appreciate the user-friendly approach of Improving Writing.

Improving Writing K-8: Strategies, Assessments, Resources

Reference

Jerry Johns

Susan Lenski

Words, Language & Grammar

Kendall/Hunt Publishing

Visualization has not been a common word in most classroom reading programs. In recent years, however, the impact of visualization on student comprehension has gained greater awareness among reading educators. This compact, easy-to-use book helps teachers understand visualization and how to apply the strategies in their classrooms.
Includes 57 lessons arranged within 13 goals, assessments for the goals, and rubrics to score the assessments. Also contains links to literature questions and cues to use with students. Visualization, by Linda L. Zeigler and Jerry L. Johns, is intended to help classroom teachers, reading specialists, and other professionals who are involved in creating and delivering high-quality reading instruction to students. The book can be used for staff development programs and as a supplemental in a wide variety of reading courses at colleges and universities.

Visualization: Using Mental Images to Strengthen Comprehension

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Linda Zeigler

Psychology & Counseling

Provides methods for improving reading skill and comprehension.

Improving Reading: Strategies And Resources (Fourth Edition)

Book by JOHNS JERRY, BERGLUND ROBERTA L

Fluency: Strategies and Assessments

Education & Teaching

Roberta L. Berglund

Schools & Teaching

CD-ROM includes video demonstrations of the Basic reading inventory with a teacher and student, and software for recording and analysing scores.

BASIC READING INVENTORY: PRE-PRIMER THROUGH GRADE TWELVE AND EARLY LITERACY ASSESSMENTS

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Each of the 44+ research-based strategies in this book is presented step-by-step with the description, teaching goals, procedures, and student reproducibles. A quick reference guide helps educators find the specific are they wish to target, and then notes when, why, and how to use that strategy in their classroom. This book is ideal for professional development in schools, districts, and other programs focused on reading in the elementary grades. Each book contains a CD with over 120 repoducible pages for classroom use, as well as bonus items.

Comprehension and Vocabulary Strategies for the Elementary Grades w/ CD ROM

Strategies, Guidelines. Exercises To Improve Learning

STRATEGIES FOR CONTENT AREA LEARNING: VOCABULARY*COMPREHENSION*RESPONSE W/ CD ROM

The new title of this book broadens the scope of teaching and assessment strategies critical for addressing the wide range of abilities of children in these grades. With this new edition the goal was met too provide teachers with research-based, practical teaching and assessment strategies to support the reading development of all children in their classrooms.

Teaching Reading: Pre-k to Grade 3

Laurie Elish-Piper

Where do you find time to build fluency instruction into your already packed classroom schedule? Here are numerous practical strategies and assessment tools you can use immediately to strengthen students' fluency skills in regular classrooms and in resource rooms. Features include concise answers to all your questions with evidence-based strategies, practical activities, and resources to develop students' fluency at various grade levels. Graded passages, related resources, and reproducible fluency record sheets, scales, and rubrics can help you monitor students' progress over time.

FLUENCY: STRATEGIES AND ASSESSMENTS

Book by LENSKI SUSAN, WHAM MARY ANN, JOHNS JERRY, CASKEY MICKI M

READING AND LEARNING STRATEGIES: MIDDLE GRADES THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL

Mary Ann Wham

Micki M Caskey

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