The Research Book of the Fifty States

Nancy Polette

Pieces of Learning

Research Without Copying

Polette, Nancy

Colors of My Rainbow

Wayman, Joe

Professional development book offering rationales and strategies for the use of questioning as a method of instruction. Activities help motivate students, stimulate high-level thinking, and enhance students' self-concept. The questioning strategies favor in-depth thinking and reflection over recollection of facts. Examples of strategies include personification, what if/hypothetical questioning, and visual techniques, such as a constructing a mind map organizing and visually constructing relationships between ideas. Diagrams, examples of questions, and bulleted lists constitute a majority of the book's content, and the unifying metaphorical shape throughout the text is a triangle. Mathematics, social studies, and reading are specific disciplines for which the text provides concrete examples.

Questioning Makes the Difference

Education & Teaching

Nancy L. Johnson

Schools & Teaching

Understanding a Millennium

Grimm, Gary

Artman, John

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

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

Looking for Math puzzles aligned to the standards?You need this book! The puzzles in this book are designed to be easily integrated into any curriculum, especially one based on the Common Core State Standards for mathematics. As recommended by the CCSS, the puzzles were created to facilitate [connecting] the mathematical practices to mathematical content in mathematics instruction. Gifted elementary students master content more quickly and more effectively when it is embedded within exercises requiring reasoning. Puzzles provide the perfect format in which this mastery can take place. Each of the puzzles in this book provides practice in the content standards.Warning These puzzles are tough! They will challenge even the most mathematically gifted fourth-sixth graders. But then, that kind of challenge is just what these students want and need. Puzzles include Kakuro, Buzzippers, Transformers, TriSquares, KenKen, Cross Numbers, Picture Puzzles, Lost Sums, By the Numbers, and Addition Logic.

Mesmerizing Math Puzzles

Lydian Davis

35 Ideas for Integrating Common Core Into Your Language Arts Curriculum Our students live in a fast-paced, high-tech world. If they aren't motivated to learn, if they aren't engaged, we lose them. Perhaps the worst part of this is that once they become disengaged, they will never achieve what they are capable of. Engaging Gifted Readers &amp; Writers... contains a balance of lessons balanced in many ways. First, it contains an assortment of reading, writing and speaking lessons. These are further divided among expository, persuasive, informational, and poetry lesson. Some will take less than a class period; others can take a week. The longer lessons are designed to be flexible enough for you to adjust expectations to meet your time constraints. Regardless of time constraints you face, all lessons are written to be easy to implement. Finally we offer both collaborative and individual activities. We want the lessons to engage students. This means students find them challenging, but not frustrating. They are open ended, allowing students to being their own voice to them, to express their own creative ideas. The lessons guide students to develop the skills needed to take their original ideas, develop them in depth, and articulate them in alignment with the Common Core Standards.

Engaging Gifted Readers & Writers: 35 Ideas for Integrating Common Core Into Your Language Arts Curriculum

Kenneth J. Smith

PH.D.

Terri Zazove

Use CAP Activities... to differentiate by process within your classroom!The purpose of this book is to introduce teachers to CAP Activities and offer guidance in implementing them. The CAP Activities are linked to Kaplan s icons for depth and complexity and examples are provided across grade levels and content areas. Templates to create your own activities are provided. CAP Activities are beneficial to all learners but will ABSOLUTELY lend themselves toward elevating rigor in assignments.Creative - Analytical - PracticalThese activities/tasks will require students to manipulate new content in ways that are most appropriate to their preferred learning modes. Their modes may (and will) change on a daily basis, but at the end of a CAP activity, students will see improved retention and recall of information learned through these thinker types. This makes teachers more effective in their use of instructional time and students more successful when asked to recall and use the information they have learned.

Design DI: CAP Activities for Process Differentiation

Dr. Carrie Simpson

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