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Build Reading Fluency: Practice and Performance with Reader's Theater
Discover innovative ways to incorporate fluency practice into literacy instruction! This professional development resource provides teachers with engaging and practical strategies for bringing fluency instruction into daily reading routines. Build...
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Building Bigger Ideas: A Process for Teaching Purposeful Talk
Study after study shows that as students grow, they become increasingly focused on technology-driven communication. Cyber-dialogue replaces face-to-face interactions in all aspects of their lives. And yet, has there ever been a greater need for students...
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Conversations : Strategies for Teaching, Learning, and Evaluating
Recommended by the Ontario Ministry of EducationGrades K-8If you’re looking for a single book that provides everything you need to create a balanced, comprehensive literacy program, you will find it here. Applying research, expertise, and common...
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Good-bye Round Robin, Updated Edition
Oral reading can increase the comprehension, fluency, and strategic thinking of every reader—if you have the right strategies. Good-bye Round Robin, Updated Edition, gives you the 25 best ways to turn oral reading into one of your most effective...
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Listen Hear! 25 Effective Listening Comprehension Strategies
Have you ever asked your students "Are you listening?" and felt uneasy that their response didn’t distinguish listening from hearing? We expect children to spend fifty percent or more of their school day engaged in listening-comprehension...
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Reading Poetry in the Middle Grades
20 Poems and Activities That Meet the Common Core Standards and Cultivate a Passion for Poetry "As teachers today, everything we teach has to be turbo-charged with skills and the promise of advancing our students academically. Here’s the cool...
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Sing a Song of Poetry
This companion to the Fountas & Pinnell Phonics, Spelling, and Word Study System series uses poetry to its full advantage to expand children’s oral language capabilities, develop phonological awareness, and teach about the intricacies...
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Snapshots : Literacy Minilessons Up Close
Linda Hoyt covers oral, guided, and independent reading, as well as writing, providing more than 170 minilessons for understanding individual words and whole texts, fiction, and nonfiction. For each “Snapshot,” Linda guides you through a...
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Strategies for Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching and Learning, Second Edition
Educators will learn to examine all aspects of teaching practice with an eye toward meeting the needs of today’s diverse student populations. This professional resource provides clear explanation and hands-on tools for implementing a CLR approach...
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Strategies for Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching and Learning, Second Edition.
Concrete strategies to support students with culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
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Teach Like an MC: Hip Hop Pedagogy in the K–12 Classroom
In Teach Like An MC, Edmund Adjapong provides a research-based framework for implementing innovative teaching strategies anchored in the five elements of hip-hop culture: MCing, graffiti, knowledge of self, DJing, and breakdancing. He shares the...
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Teach Like an MC: Hip Hop Pedagogy in the K–12 Classroom.
In Teach Like an MC, Edmund Adjapong creates a framework informed by hip-hop culture that supports educators who have also become teachers to stop the cycle of poor teaching and to nurture positive educational experiences for all youth, with special...