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Teaching Words and How They Work
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 169

Teaching Words and How They Work

Research shows that vocabulary is the best support for students’ comprehension of narrative and information texts. Often, vocabulary instruction focuses on a few target words in specific texts. However, to understand the many new words in complex texts students need to know how words work. This book, written by an award-winning authority on reading instruction, shows teachers how to make small changes to teach more words and also how words work. Many of these small changes involve enrichments to existing vocabulary practices, such as word walls and conversations with students. Each chapter includes descriptions of teachers’ implementation of small changes to support big gains in students...

Research-Based Practices for Teaching Common Core Literacy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 289

Research-Based Practices for Teaching Common Core Literacy

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Reading More, Reading Better
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 289

Reading More, Reading Better

Teaching students specific literacy skills is important--but equally critical, and often overlooked, is giving them the time and opportunity to read actual texts. Bringing together leading scholars, this book focuses on how teachers can improve both the quality and quantity of reading experiences in K-12 classrooms. Essential topics include factors that make reading tasks more or less productive for different types of learners, ways to balance independent reading with whole-class and small-group instruction, how to choose appropriate texts, and the connections between reading engagement and proficiency. The relevant research literature is reviewed, and exemplary practices and programs are described.

Finding the Right Texts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 289

Finding the Right Texts

Until now, no single volume has comprehensively examined the crucial question of how to select the most appropriate reading material for beginning or struggling readers. From leading authorities, this book meets an important need by reviewing the best available research on the role of specific text features a " including linguistic and conceptual content a " in supporting the development of proficient reading. Also explored are ways that teacher scaffolding can help students who have difficulties with particular aspects or types of texts. The book considers approaches to adapting the design and selection of texts to reinforce reading skills and provide well-paced challenges for Ka "6 students at a variety of ability levels.

Revisiting Silent Reading
  • Language: en

Revisiting Silent Reading

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Literacy leaders come together to give advice about silent reading instruction and how to make it work in your classroom. --from publisher description.

Teaching and Learning Vocabulary
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

Teaching and Learning Vocabulary

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005-05-06
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Although proficiency in vocabulary has long been recognized as basic to reading proficiency, there has been a paucity of research on vocabulary teaching and learning over the last two decades. Recognizing this, the U.S. Department of Education recently sponsored a Focus on Vocabulary conference that attracted the best-known and most active researchers in the vocabulary field. This book is the outgrowth of that conference. It presents scientific evidence from leading research programs that address persistent issues regarding the role of vocabulary in text comprehension. Part I examines how vocabulary is learned; Part II presents instructional interventions that enhance vocabulary; and Part II...

Research-Based Practices for Teaching Common Core Literacy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 289

Research-Based Practices for Teaching Common Core Literacy

This one-of-a-kind resource will be invaluable to every teacher educator, every curriculum director, and every literacy coach, whether or not they must meet Common Core Standards. Bringing together perspectives from literacy luminaries, each addressing their specialty, this book offers an accessible fund of rich practices in literacy instruction. The book serves two purposes: First, it assembles a body of knowledge and wisdom from leading literacy researchers who each draw from a long career in the field to address topics of central importance to good literacy instruction. Second, these research-to-practice leaders connect established best practices and foundational research to the current c...

Shine Your Eyes, Mama Africa!
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 798

Shine Your Eyes, Mama Africa!

THIS IS A BOOK LIKE MANY OTHERS WE SEE, REPRESENTS A FLOWERING OF AFRICAN TALENT, WHICH HAS BEEN A RECENT AND WELCOME PHENOMENON.THIS BOOK IS PASSIONATE AND LITERATE AND MAKES A STRONG CASE. ATHENA PRESS. THIS IS A WONDERFUL FIRST BOOK BY THE AUTHOR. IT IS FUNNY AND YET INFORMATIVE! IT CHALLENGES RELIGIOUS LEADERS, WESTERN LRADERS, AND AFRICAN LEADERS TO COME CLEAN. IT ALSO CHALLENGES THE YOUTHS AND THE OPPRESSED IN THE DEVELOPING THIRD WORLD TO RISE UP AND FIGHT FOR THEIR RIGHTS! THE DAILY SKETCH IF YOU WANT TO HAVE A GOOD LAUGH WHILE BEING ENLIGHTENED, IT DEFINITELY IS THE BOOK TO READ. I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE, ALTHOUGH I DO NOT CLAIM TO BE A PROPHET AND THE FUTURE IS FOR AFRICA TO LOCK UP, IGNORE THE UN, IMF, AND THE WORLD BANK; AND TO IMPLEMENT WHAT IS AFRICAN AND NOT WESTERN HYPOCRITICAL ADVICE. HAVE THEY REDUCED THE PRODUCTION OF THE COMBUSTION ENGINES WHILE CROAKING ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE? THAT IS THE POINT, SIMPLE! MAN HAS CREATED THE TWO MOST EVIL CONCEPTS IN THE WORLD; RELIGIONS AND POLITICS! HOW MANY HUMAN AND ANIMAL LIVES HAVE BEEN LOST DUE TO POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS CONFLICTS? ISMAIL DANESI THIS IS A MUST READ. IT IS HISTORY, POLITICS, AND A STORY BOOK!

The SAGE Handbook for Research in Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 529

The SAGE Handbook for Research in Education

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-06-10
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  • Publisher: SAGE

This handbook provides an up-to-date, advanced analysis of all relevant issues involved in educational research. The expert contributors represent diverse fields within and outside education, as well as quantitative, qualitative, and mixed method approaches to research.

Teaching and Learning Vocabulary
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 290

Teaching and Learning Vocabulary

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005-05-06
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The US Department of Education sponsored a Focus on Vocabulary conference. This book is the outgrowth of that conference. It presents scientific evidence from leading research programs that address persistent issues regarding the role of vocabulary in text comprehension.