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Journey to Literacy: No Worksheets Required
"The play-based learning and individualized strategies in this practical book build on the wide range of literacy skills present in the kindergarten classroom. This resource explores simple ways to use traditional learning centres to provide children with real and authentic reasons to listen, speak, read, write, and view. Teachers will find a wealth of resources for creating meaningful learning experiences, including: answers to often-asked questions; milestones to inform teaching instruction; activities and games for both individuals and groups, and literacy extensions that involve children with quality literature, authentic artifacts, and recordings This highly readable book will support teachers as they move beyond worksheets and nurture students on their journey to lifelong literacy."--Publisher.
Better Books! Better Readers!
Grade level: 1, 2, 3, k, p, e, t.
Literature Circle Role Sheets (eBook)
From Character Sketcher to Plot Person, ready-to-use reproducible role sheets to make your literature circle discussions exciting, informative and fun! Also promotes writing, listening and cooperative learning skills, fosters individual assessment and facilitates reading success. Preselected lists of student books, guidelines for getting started, observation charts and more.
Take Me to Your Readers
This thoughtful book is rooted in the belief that teachers can lead their students to develop their reading tastes and grow in their love of reading at the same time as supporting and stretching students in their meaning-making experiences. This practical resource highlights more than 50 instructional strategies that invite students to work inside and outside a book through reading, writing, talk, and arts experiences. It highlights the work of guest voices that include classroom teachers, occasional teachers, special education teachers, and librarians who share their best literacy practices. Take Me to Your Readers uses 5 essential areas to structure classroom experiences through children's literature: Motivation; Theme Connections; Genre Connections; Cross-Curricular Connections; and Response. Extensive booklists, teaching tips, a wide range of activities, and reproducible pages provide practical support. Ultimately, this book is designed to take teachers to their readers and start them on a lifelong journey through great books!
Real Books for Reading
This is a comprehensive guide to selecting and using real books to nurture a love of reading and language in 3 to 8 year-olds. It will help teachers, librarians, and parents to evaluate books most appropriate for children at specific points in their development as readers. Of particular value is the chapter on realistic, practical criteria for choosing books for home, library, and classroom. Real Books for Readingis illustrated with delightful examples of children's response to literature. The extensive bibliography is organized around ten categories that reflect realistically the stages of children's reading development from pre-reader to independent reader.
Authentic Assessment
Authentic Assessment combines performance tasks that are relevant to students' lives with the need for accountability. The book explores common mandated language arts expectations and shows teachers how to choose meaningful activities that will guide students toward achieving important learning outcomes. This practical approach to task design includes suggestions for planning through evaluating and generating a mark, as well as sensible ways to use assessment results to improve instructional practice. The book presents: a thorough, constructive background for authentic assessment of student work; clear definitions of terms related to assessment and evaluation; a step-by-step process for developing performance-based tasks; strategies for relating tasks to goals and expectations; numerous activities that can be used as is or adapted for specific needs. Designed for the busy teacher, the book includes ready-to-copy and use planning sheets, rubrics, and student surveys. Excellent samples of student work based on performance tasks complement this timely book.
Teachers and Parents Together
Practical ways to involve parents in school programs -- from ideas for bulletin boards, through suggested letters and procedures for parent interviews, open houses, newsletters, and surveys. Reproducible information sheets clarify key questions about everything from spelling to skills to report cards.
Read it in the Classroom!
Grade level: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, e, i, s, t.
