When should we be asking questions?The short answer: all the time. As teachers we ve all fallen into the trap of giving students answers rather than encouraging them to think for themselves. Questions encourage the students to do the heavy lifting instead of the teachers. Plus, good questions are motivating and engaging, serving as great hooks for learning. Because we want this book to be useful to as many teachers as possible, we ve provided questions to go along with different types of content. We ve posed broad questions related to the four main content areas (ELA, math, science, and social studies), questions related to concepts (such as progress and influence) that can be posed across content areas, and questions related to more specific topics (such as plants, geometry, and the American Revolution). You ll find lists of questions provided in each of these areas, and the areas are organized alphabetically, so for example, math topics are listed in alphabetical order.Use these questions for:1. Brainstorming sessions2. Hooks to engage students in lessons and units3. Writing prompts for formal and informal assessments4. Seminar questions5. Journaling and/or reflection6. Formal essays7. Small group or buddy (Think-- Pair-- Share) discussions8. Independent studies9. Models from which students can create their own questions10. Online discussion boards

The Teacher's Book of BIG Questions: A Collection of Questions to Spark Thinking Across the Curriculum

Robert Iseminger

Caroline C. Eidson

Pieces of Learning

Face-to-face communication is evidencing a decline in both the home and school environments as more interaction is directed to the digital world. Many students are entering school with decreased oral language development compared to generations in the past, due to a decrease in conversation within the home. This classroom resource book will provide teachers with strategies and activities that infuse Common Core/standards-based lessons with purposeful student-to-student dialogue and discussion of content across curricular areas. The activities are low-prep, high-impact approaches that encourage student talk about the content, allowing the teacher to be a true classroom facilitator. The strategies offered are designed to address the 21st Century Skills of creative problem solving, collaboration, communication and critical thinking, as well as to develop empathy among classmates.

Cultivating Classroom Conversation: Strategies and Activities That Build Student Dialogue Into Standards-Based Lessons

Chris Taibbi

Demystifying Differentiation in Elementary School is an excellent, practical resource for teachers and administrators who are ready to take differentiation to the next level in their classrooms and schools, who believe that differentiation works, and who are looking for more examples of it.
 There are many books available about curriculum differentiation; most of them address the theory and rationale behind differentiation and discuss models and strategies that support it. Some offer limited examples of differentiated tasks and activities. However, few provide comprehensive collections of activities that demonstrate how to use differentiation in different subject areas at a variety of grade levels in mixed-ability elementary classrooms.
 Educators are asking, "Where can I find a book that has a bunch of these kinds of activities already written for me to use in my classroom?"
 Demystifying Differentiation in Elementary School answers their question by offering completed samples of Think-Tac-Toes, RAFT Activities, and Tiered Assignments in various topic areas of Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies. In addition, specific standards are indicated, objectives are stated, and materials are suggested for each of the 48 examples.
 The Elementary digital content has 48 completed customizable WORD files including these topic areas:
 Paragraphs, Compound Words, Consonants &amp; Vowels, Folktales, Handwriting, Nouns, Reference Materials, Synonyms, Addition &amp; Subtraction, Standard &amp; Metric Measurement, Graphing, Money, 3-D Figures, Mammals, The Hydrosphere, Parts of Flowers, Weathering/Erosion, Families, Historical Figures, Map-Reading, Needs and Wants, Telling Time, Fractions, Probability, Deserts, The Solar System, Matter, Trees, American Revolution, Landforms, Indian Tribes, U.S. States, Families, and Character, Plot, Setting
 Instructions for downloading the digital content are included inside the back cover.

Demystifying Differentiation in Elementary School - Includes Downloadable Digital Content

Caroline Eidson

Education & Teaching

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The Teacher's Book of BIG Questions: A Collection of Questions to Spark Thinking Across the Curriculum

Cultivating Classroom Conversation: Strategies and Activities That Build Student Dialogue Into Standards-Based Lessons

Demystifying Differentiation in Elementary School - Includes Downloadable Digital Content