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Short Texts, Big Impact
In this teacher-friendly resource, Kim Carlton helps you experience instructional wins each day by using short texts in the classroom. Divided into two main sections, short reading strategies and short writing strategies, this book provides...
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Short Texts, Big Impact: 35 Strategies for Strengthening Reading and Writing Skills
To work with young children is to constantly expect the unexpected. Tough questions are part of early childhood educators’ regular interactions with children and families. Based on children’s actual questions, Big Conversations with Little...
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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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Spotlight on Comprehension: Building a Literacy of Thoughtfulness
This text presents a tapestry of short, highly practical essays loaded with ready to use strategies for teaching reading comprehension and assessing understanding. Hoyt and an all-star ensemble of contributors, including Ellin Keene, Tony Stead, Nell...
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Strange Bedfellows: Surprising Text Pairs and Lessons for Reading and Writing Across Genres
What do Arnold Schwarzenegger and Barack Obama have in common? When it comes to helping students become savvy about genre, rhetoric, and language: everything. In Strange Bedfellows Carol Rawlings Miller pairs short pieces by famous writers and speakers...
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Strategic Reading: Guiding Students to Lifelong Literacy, 6-12
Jeffrey Wilhelm and his coauthors know that before reading can be learned, it must be taught. As students move on to more challenging texts in middle and high school, their reading skills don't grow automatically to meet those demands. They need help...
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Talk About Understanding: Rethinking Classroom Talk to Enhance Comprehension
Reading education pioneer Ellin Oliver Keene demystifies comprehension instruction by describing what it can look like when readers comprehend deeply and what it can look like when teachers aim for deep comprehension. This ground-breaking book is...
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Teacher's Guide to Standardized Reading Tests : Knowledge Is Power
In recent years, the increasingly high stakes attached to norm-referenced reading tests have made it harder to hold onto what we believe about language arts education. Now, Lucy Calkins, Kate Montgomery, and Donna Santman meet us in the true trenches,...
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Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency: Thinking, Talking and Writing about Reading (with DVD)
This is the next new breakthrough from Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell. Offering a complete picture of how to skillfully teach meaning making and fluency within any instructional context, this resource supports you with frameworks for high-quality...
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Teaching Struggling Readers: How to Use Brain-Based Research to Maximize Learning
Marie Clay, in her foreword, says that this important book will help raise the profile for what is needed to get all children off to a good start in education. And a good place to start is with Carol Lyons. Lyons does a masterful job of introducing...
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Text Savvy: Using a Shared Reading Framework to Build Comprehension
If only upper-elementary teachers had a tool like shared reading that supports the comprehension work their students do in reading workshop and read-aloud—one that helps children transition from teacher-led instruction to independent work. In fact,...
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Texts and Lessons for Content-Area Reading
"To have any hope of kids investing fully in the subject matter, we have to start by evoking their curiosity and get them interested in the topic. Engaging the students can’t wait. If we wait for the fun stuff that might pop up later, the...