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Research has confirmed that the more children practice reading, the more fluent they become. This book features 32 interactive scripts and mini-books based on familiar songs and chants that provide this necessary element of repeated reading proactive in a fun and interactive way. This motivating format keeps children's interest level high throughout several "takes" of the same text, leading to more fluent and confident readers.
"A resource book for teachers that details how to transform common household objects and art supplies into books that children personalize to practice beginning reading and writing skills. Each activity focuses on one or more of the the five elements of balanced reading: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and text comprehension."
Incorporate journal writing into your curriculum. This book by Kimberly Jordano gives you simple directions for making cross-curricular journals; ideas for managing journal writing time; and tips for conferencing, publishing, and keeping children motivated. A minilesson for each type of journal is included, along with reproducible journal covers and writing pages.
Emergent readers must master twelve essential skills, or concepts of print, before participating in a formal reading program. The hands-on activities encourage children to explore the function of letters, words, sentences, and punctuation and to practice tracking print. Tips for evaluating children's progress and an assessment tool are also included.
I started writing this reference book in 2010 and had it published in 2011. I love to read and share books with children and adults. The Enhanced Reading Reference book will give caregivers, teachers and parents a vast supply of tools and resources to enhance and support early language and literacy development for young children. It will also give all participants a great reading foundation, which will stay with them throughout their lifetime. I hope you enjoy using this reading reference book as much as I enjoyed writing it.
It’s time for the little red chicken’s bedtime story—and a reminder from Papa to try not to interrupt. But the chicken can’t help herself! Whether the tale is Hansel and Gretel or Little Red Riding Hood or even Chicken Little, she jumps into the story to save its hapless characters from doing some dangerous or silly thing. Now it’s the little red chicken’s turn to tell a story, but will her yawning papa make it to the end without his own kind of interrupting? Energetically illustrated with glowing colors—and offering humorous story-within-a-story views—this all-too-familiar tale is sure to amuse (and hold the attention of ) spirited little chicks.
Emotional labor is not adequately talked about or addressed by writing program administrators. The Things We Carry makes this often-invisible labor visible, demonstrates a variety of practical strategies to navigate it reflectively, and opens a path for further research. Particularly timely, this collection considers how writing program administrators work when their schools or regions experience crisis situations. The book is broken into three sections: one emphasizing the WPA’s own work identity, one on fostering community in writing programs, and one on balancing the professional and personal. Chapters written by a diverse range of authors in different institutional and WPA contexts exa...
A hermit crab who has outgrown his old shell moves into a new one, which he decorates and enhances with the various sea creatures he meets in his travels.
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