This book provides an organizational framework, detailed models, lessons and practical support for mapping and building grade-specific curriculum across the school year through four major types of units of study—strategy, process, genre, and conventions—that integrate reading and writing. Allyn equips teachers to identify the big ideas and deep understandings they want to develop in children and shows how to use them framing a year, a unit and a lesson in the teaching of reading and writing. For use with Grades K–6.

The Complete 4 for Literacy

Education & Teaching

Allyn, Pam

Schools & Teaching

Scholastic Teaching Resources: Theory and Practice

With these lessons, you've got what you need to teach students to write effectively and raise their test scores. Easy, sequential lessons mirror the kind of writing students will be asked to do on the tests. Through fun writing prompts such as memorable haircuts and how to eat an Oreo cookie, students learn to craft a five-paragraph essay, organize a story, write an effective expository piece, add elaborations, master persuasive writing, and more. For use with Grades 3-6.

10 Easy Writing Lessons That Get Kids Ready for Writing Assessments: Proven Ways to Raise Your Students' Scores on the State Performance Assessments in Writing

Rose, Mary

Guided reading is wonderful in theory, but how do you manage it? In this practical resource, two veteran teachers provide a step-by-step guide to guided reading, sharing their lesson plans, management strategies, and assessment tools. They show you how to manage flexible groups, match books to student needs, incorporate phonics, and use assessment to inform instruction. Transcripts of guiding reading sessions and lots of teacher prompts show exactly how guided reading can work for you. Also included is a list of over 650 book titles leveled by reading stage and by Reading Recovery levels. For use with Grades K-3.

Guided Reading: Making It Work: Two Teachers Share Their Insights, Strategies, and Lessons for Helping Every Child Become a Successful Reader (Teaching Strategies)

Schulman, Mary

Carleen, Payne

Payne, Carleen

Children's Books

This ready-to-use resource gives teachers 15 kid-pleasing stories that are perfect for building essential reading skills such as predicting, making inferences, summarizing, and more. For each reproducible story, teachers will find a companion teacher page with vocabulary-building tips, reading strategy suggestions, and thought-provoking writing and discussion prompts. For use with Grades 4-8.

Comprehension Cliffhanger Stories: 15 Action-Packed Stories That Invite Students to Infer, Visualize, and Summarize to Predict the Ending of Each Story

Conklin, Tom

Reference

Help students read and engage with textbooks, and navigate the special demands of any non-fiction text structure. In this highly practical book, master teacher Laura Robb shares dozens of strategy lessons to use before, during, and after reading. Other chapters show you how to support students one-on one, how to use discussions to deepen learning, build vocabulary, and use literature in the content areas. Includes lots of examples for social studies, science, and math. For use with Grades 3 &amp; Up.

Teaching Reading In Social Studies, Science and Math (Theory and Practice)

Robb, Laura

This fantastic resource is just what teachers need—a treasury of ready-to-go activities kids use independently to build reading skills. Now a teacher can rest assured that "the rest of the class" is reading and learning while he or she meet with small groups. Activity sheets guide students to build vocabulary, deepen comprehension, explore genre, identify literary elements, and so much more! For use with Grades 3-6.

Independent Reading Activities That Keep Kids Learning. . . While You Teach Small Groups: 50 Engaging Reproducible Activity Sheets, Management ... Build Key Reading Strategies Independently

Finney, Susan

Help students tackle the textbook with 15 lessons that introduce key nonfiction elements. Colorful transparencies present maps, graphs, diagrams, time lines and other nonfiction text features. High-interest passages give examples of description, time order, compare and contrast, cause and effect, and problem and solution—the five main ways nonfiction texts are organized. Practice pages help students apply what they’ve learned, giving them the experience they need to read and comprehend nonfiction with confidence. For use with Grades 4 &amp; Up.

Teaching Students to Read Nonfiction: Grades 4 and Up: 22 Easy Lessons With Color Transparencies, High-Interest Passages, and Practice ... to Read Textbooks and Other Nonfiction Texts

Blevins, Wiley

Boynton, Alice

The 50 interactive strategy sheets in this book help students use key reading strategies, including setting purposes for reading, making predictions, inferring information, identifying main ideas, and so much more. With sheets for fiction and nonfiction genres, this is just the resource teachers need to help their students become strategic, independent readers. For use with Grades 4-8.

50 Reproducible Strategy Sheets That Build Comprehension During Independent Reading: Engaging Forms That Guide Students to Use Reading Strategies and ... Elements―and Help You Assess Comprehension

Robb, Anina

Teachers can turn to this giant bank of clip art to jazz up just about anything-all year long! Ready-to-use full-page patterns can be reproduced and used for decoration anywhere, for any purpose-report covers, invitations, announcements, letters home, or coloring pages. Includes tons of ideas and tips for use! For use with Grades PreK-3.

Biggie Patterns: Seasons & Holidays: 40 Instant & Adorable Patterns for Bulletin Boards, Class Books, Newsletters, Stationery, and More

Scholastic, Inc.

Develop a love of language with this BIG, laminated flip chart featuring 12 adorable poems-one for each month! Display this sturdy, colorful resource all year long to explore rhyme and rhythm, vocabulary, phonics, spelling, and more. Companion teaching pages are packed with instant language arts boosters and kid-perfect writing prompts.

Poem Of The Month Flip Chart: 12 Joyful Read-Aloud Poems With Skill-Building Lessons and Writing Springboards

FLEMING, MARIA

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