This book highlights the multiplicity of approaches to problem solving and considers the skills, processes, and methods involved. Problem-solving has been promoted as a way of making education in schools relevant and applicable, and Mike Watts examines the questions and assumptions behind that idea. The chapters focus on teaching and learning, the ownership and transfer of skills and processes, the construction of concepts and attitudes, the management of organization of people and resources, and the development of group work and cooperative learning as these all relate to open ended, task-orientated problem-solving.

The science of problem solving: A practical guide for science teachers

Watts, Mike

Heinemann Educational Books

And with a Light Touch: Learning about Reading, Writing & Teaching with Young Children

Avery, Carol

Profiles are developmental scales depicting progress in learning. They are designed to assist teachers, schools, and systems with the complex process of assessment, recording, and reporting on students' developing competencies and achievements. They are criterion-referenced interpretive frameworks and are sometimes called standards-referenced frameworks. Profiles in English as a Second Language is designed to help teachers who want to implement an approach to assessment and reporting that supports the wholeness of the teaching/learning/assessment enterprise. It focuses on assessment as a way of improving the education of students who are learning English as a second or additional language. The teacher is the prime assessment instrument. Moreover, the research data indicate that reliability of teacher judgment using these approaches often exceeds that of standardized texts. The book includes examples of assessment contexts, teaching strategies, and record-keeping and reporting procedures. The profiles provide a useful framework for interpreting observations of students' language development and for organizing description of their achievement. They not only help teachers to become better observers, they lead to a clearer approach to planning instruction, assisting student learning, mapping the progress of individuals, and developing a common language with other teachers for describing that progress.

Profiles in English as a Second Language

Reference

Martin, Lyn

Griffin JR., Patrick

Smith, Patricia G.

English as a Second Language

Learn more about the Heinemann Seminar based on this book: Inside the Teaching of Writing Your curriculum is packed, and you have barely enough instructional time to teach students essential writing skills, let alone how to combine those skills to form cohesive, compelling work. Fortunately, there is a solution to the time crunch, a quicker, more effective way to help children understand the complexities of writing, and Don Graves and Penny Kittle are ready to share it with you. In Inside Writing, Graves and Kittle show you the power behind an apprenticeship approach to writing instruction where you mentor students using your own writing-even if you don't consider yourself a writer. Inside Writing is a practical, flexible three-part program that gives you numerous entryways for learning how to model the central elements of the craft:  topic choice  rereading  details  response  conventions  the writing life.   Begin with any aspect of Inside Writing, and you'll discover new insights about high-quality writing instruction. The DVD: go inside real classrooms to watch as teachers from grades 2-6 demonstrate their writing process for students, and hear teachers and students share what a difference this teaching technique makes; hear commentary tracks from Graves and Kittle that underscore important instructional moments; listen in as the authors discuss their own writing processes; and print seventy-eight quick-writes prompts form your computer's DVD drive. The book: read about the voluminous research that supports the efficacy of the apprenticeship method for teaching children to write; strengthen the link between instructional theory and your own day-to-day classroom-teaching practices; and gain a new understanding of the role of writing in both your students' lives and yours.  My Quick Writes notebook: Use Graves' favorite Quick Write topics to practice your own writing and reflect on it; find prompts for in-class quick writes with children that prepare them for timed testing situations without giving over your writing workshop to mere test prep; and make connections between your writing process and your students'. Sharpen your writing instruction by learning to trust your own writing. Then teach your students in a powerful, lasting way that will help them to not only understand the elements of writing, but also to combine them into better finished products. Apprentice yourself to Donald Graves and Penny Kittle and go Inside Writing. Click here for a brief walkthrough of the book, notebook and DVD.

Inside Writing: How to Teach the Details of Craft

Politics & Social Sciences

Donald H. Graves

Social Sciences

Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis have adapted the strategy instruction made famous in Strategies That Work and The Comprehension Toolkit to meet the developmental needs of our youngest readers. The Primary Comprehension Toolkit launches students in Kindergarten through Grade 2 into the exciting world of nonfiction reading, writing, and thinking. 
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<li>Instruction centres on 22 lessons in six books, each organized around a fundamental comprehension strategy.</li> <li>Lessons are designed for instruction with large groups, small groups, guided reading, and individual conferences.</li> <li>Three half-hour classroom videos show the authors teaching lessons.</li> <li>Students acquire tools for reading, writing, and thinking in Science and Social Studies.</li> </ul>

The Primary Comprehension Toolkit: Language and Lessons for Active Literacy, Grade K-2

Stephanie Harvey

Anne Goudvis

Read-aloud time is much treasured in most elementary classrooms as teachers share children’s classics with their young readers. Linda Hoyt’s Interactive Read-Alouds will help you make the most of read-aloud time by showing you creative ways to use popular children’s literature to teach standards, fluency, and comprehension. Combining award-winning text and engaging conversations with reflective thinking, Linda’s lessons will add drama to your literacy block and will teach your young readers strategies they will use across the curriculum.

Interactive Read Alouds 4-5 Pk

Education & Teaching

HOYT

Schools & Teaching

LLI Green Lev Lit A-J

FOUNTAS

LLI Blue Lev Lit C-N

Irene C. Fountas

Como Apoyar A su Nino O Nina Con el Aprendizaje de la Lectura y la Escritura: Una Guia Para Familias

Parenting & Relationships

Bonnie Campbell Hill

Phonics Lessons and Word Study Lessons reflect the most current research on child and language development. Fountas and Pinnell understand that to some extent children follow their own idiosyncratic paths, but they also recognize that developmental patterns provide a foundation upon which to build the smartest instruction possible. Fountas and Pinnell's Word Study Continuum plots a course along the developmental pathway children traverse as they become expert word solvers and effective readers.   To address young readers' developmental needs, Phonics Lessons, Kindergarten includes four essential areas of language knowledge: phonemic awareness, letters and sounds, reading words, and early reading concepts. Phonics Lessons, Grade 1 expands into more sophisticated concepts and includes six areas of knowledge: phonemic awareness, letters and sounds, reading words, writing words, processing strategies in reading, and processing strategies in writing. Students in grade 2 will move into more sophisticated reading and writing concepts within these six areas, and students in grade 3 will focus on even more advanced areas of language with the addition of vocabulary, fluency in reading and writing, and word meaning.    The Word Study Continuum encompasses Nine Categories of Learning:      Early Literacy Concepts Phonological and Phonemic Awareness Letter Knowledge Letter/Sound Relationships     Word Meaning High-Frequency Words Spelling Patterns Word Structure Word-Solving Actions

S-Word Study Lessons Gr.3 Teaching Resourses

Pinnell, Gay Su

Fountas, Rene C.

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