Teachers can help kids get more out of any nonfiction book they read with 30 fresh book report ideas. These fun takes on the research report build kids' reading comprehension as they create their own artifacts, travel brochures, documentaries, peek-through posters, and much more Teachers will also find teaching strategies, reproducible templates, and a bibliography of children's nonfiction. Great for inspiring kids of all learning styles to "read to learn" View More...
These 40 graphic organizers provide a wonderful way for teachers to ensure students get the most out of each book during independent reading. The graphic organizers help students use key reading strategies, including making predictions, summarizing, inferring information, identifying main ideas, and so much more. With organizers for fiction and nonfiction genres, this is just the resource teachers need to help students become strategic, independent readers. View More...
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. View More...
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. View More...
This Practical resource gives primary teachers a collection of stimulating, tested learning center activities to teach and reinforce alphabet letters and their sounds. Helps children identify and spell words with ease View More...
The former National Director of Education for Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics. presents his do-it-yourself program for increasing reading speed and boosting comprehension. This program distills fundamental principles and skills chat can be learned at home with the help of the drills and exercises provided. And because it lets readers choose their own materials and set their own pace, it's the ideal method for busy people juggling a full schedule. View More...
Make it easy to integrate reading-skill instruction into the content areas An experienced teacher shares her research-based activities, graphic organizers, and strategies for teaching reading during social studies and science. Textbook Preview Checklist, Fact or Fiction Flip Book, Point-of-View Time Line, and lots of other great activities help students navigate their textbooks and other nonfiction. View More...
A welcome addition to the content area reading market, this much-needed text helps teachers find ways to show elementary school children the classroom value of what they learn outside of school. Using a social constructionist framework, this prestigious author team includes strategies that the "National Reading Panel" deemed useful in promoting comprehension, becoming the first and only text that calls attention to "evidence-based research" and its implications for instruction. Innovative in its 3 R's frameworkRememberingReflectingReconsideringit will help readers make connections and improve ... View More...
"Do I really have to teach reading?" This is the question many teachers of adolescents are asking, wondering how they can possibly add a new element to an already overloaded curriculum. And most are finding that the answer is "yes." If they want their students to learn complex new concepts in different disciplines, they often have to help their students become better readers.Building on the experiences gained in her own language arts classroom as well as those of colleagues in different disciplines, Cris Tovani, author of I Read It, but I Don't Get It, takes on the challenge of helping student... View More...
"Do I really have to teach reading?" This is the question many teachers of adolescents are asking, wondering how they can possibly add a new element to an already overloaded curriculum. And most are finding that the answer is "yes." If they want their students to learn complex new concepts in different disciplines, they often have to help their students become better readers.Building on the experiences gained in her own language arts classroom as well as those of colleagues in different disciplines, Cris Tovani, author of I Read It, but I Don't Get It, takes on the challenge of helping student... View More...
"Efficient and Flexible Reading" teaches readers how to vary their approach to written text based on the material and their purpose for reading. In addition to instruction in literal and critical comprehension skills, vocabulary, and study skills, "Efficient and Flexible Reading" helps readers identify text structures and thought patterns for more efficient learning. While encouraging active and critical reading, the book comprehensively covers all traditional reading topics. With sections on "Checking Your Vocabulary," "Evaluating Internet Sources," and "Reading in the 21st Century," along wi... View More...
I Read It, but I Don't Get It is a practical, engaging account of how teachers can help adolescents develop new reading comprehension skills. Cris Tovani is an accomplished teacher and staff developer who writes with verve and humor about the challenges of working with students at all levels of achievement--from those who have mastered the art of "fake reading" to college-bound juniors and seniors who struggle with the different demands of content-area textbooks and novels.Enter Cris' classroom, a place where students are continually learning new strategies for tackling difficult text. You wil... View More...
450 all-new teaching ideas using 90 more of the most popular children's books. 18 different curriculum units have been created, including Classics; Cats, Dogs, and Other Pets; Transportation; and Tall and Funny Tales--all designed to install a love of learning and fondness for good books. View More...
In a small town called Dundee on the coast of Maine, an old woman named Hannah Gray begins her story: Somebody said 'true love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.' I've seen both and I don't know how to tell you which is worse. Hannah has decided, finally, to leave a record of the passionate and anguished long-ago summer in Dundee when she met Conary Crocker, the town bad boy and love of her life. This spare, piercing, and unforgettable novel bridges two centuries and two intense love stories as Hannah and Conary's fate is interwoven with the tale of a marriage that t... View More...
In a small town called Dundee on the coast of Maine, an old woman named Hannah Gray begins her story: Somebody said 'true love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.' I've seen both and I don't know how to tell you which is worse. Hannah has decided, finally, to leave a record of the passionate and anguished long-ago summer in Dundee when she met Conary Crocker, the town bad boy and love of her life. This spare, piercing, and unforgettable novel bridges two centuries and two intense love stories as Hannah and Conary's fate is interwoven with the tale of a marriage that t... View More...
How do students become thoughtful, independent readers who comprehend text at a deep level? To find the answers, authors Keene and Zimmermann embarked on a journey into the thought processes of proficient readers - a journey through poems and essays, classrooms and workshops, humor and reflection. "Mosaic of Thought "chronicles that journey, which ultimately led the authors to elaborate on eight cognitive processes identified in comprehension research and used by successful readers. These serve as models for the strategies offered in this book - strategies intended to help children become more... View More...
How do students become thoughtful, independent readers who comprehend text at a deep level? To find the answers, authors Keene and Zimmermann embarked on a journey into the thought processes of proficient readers - a journey through poems and essays, classrooms and workshops, humor and reflection. "Mosaic of Thought "chronicles that journey, which ultimately led the authors to elaborate on eight cognitive processes identified in comprehension research and used by successful readers. These serve as models for the strategies offered in this book - strategies intended to help children become more... View More...
How do students become thoughtful, independent readers who comprehend text at a deep level? To find the answers, authors Keene and Zimmermann embarked on a journey into the thought processes of proficient readers - a journey through poems and essays, classrooms and workshops, humor and reflection. "Mosaic of Thought "chronicles that journey, which ultimately led the authors to elaborate on eight cognitive processes identified in comprehension research and used by successful readers. These serve as models for the strategies offered in this book - strategies intended to help children become more... View More...
How do students become thoughtful, independent readers who comprehend text at a deep level? To find the answers, authors Keene and Zimmermann embarked on a journey into the thought processes of proficient readers - a journey through poems and essays, classrooms and workshops, humor and reflection. "Mosaic of Thought "chronicles that journey, which ultimately led the authors to elaborate on eight cognitive processes identified in comprehension research and used by successful readers. These serve as models for the strategies offered in this book - strategies intended to help children become more... View More...
