Building Real-Life Reading Skills


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These high-interest lessons help students build essential skills for reading the ""real-life"" texts they encounter every day--from sports schedules to toy advertisements. Includes reproducible real-life texts, read-aloud scenarios that show how students can read to solve everyday problems, guided activities, and independent practice. Helps students meet reading standards and learn to make smart decisions independently--by locating and using exactly the information they need. For use with Grades 3-5.




The Daily 5


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The Daily 5, Second Edition retains the core literacy components that made the first edition one of the most widely read books in education and enhances these practices based on years of further experience in classrooms and compelling new brain research. The Daily 5 provides a way for any teacher to structure literacy (and now math) time to increase student independence and allow for individualized attention in small groups and one-on-one. Teachers and schools implementing the Daily 5 will do the following: Spend less time on classroom management and more time teaching Help students develop independence, stamina, and accountability Provide students with abundant time for practicing reading, writing, and math Increase the time teachers spend with students one-on-one and in small groups Improve schoolwide achievement and success in literacy and math. The Daily 5, Second Edition gives teachers everything they need to launch and sustain the Daily 5, including materials and setup, model behaviors, detailed lesson plans, specific tips for implementing each component, and solutions to common challenges. By following this simple and proven structure, teachers can move from a harried classroom toward one that hums with productive and engaged learners. What's new in the second edition: Detailed launch plans for the first three weeks Full color photos, figures, and charts Increased flexibility regarding when and how to introduce each Daily 5 choice New chapter on differentiating instruction by age and stamina Ideas about how to integrate the Daily 5 with the CAFE assessment system New chapter on the Math Daily 3 structure




Real World Life Skills Big Book Gr. 6-12+


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Building upon daily and practical skills, real world life skills extends the understanding of Social Skills, Self-Sustainability Skills, and Financial Literacy Skills. Ideal for Students and adults alike, to help one to confidently and successfully interact. Have an open mindset to become more self-reliant and attain personal developments while fostering relationships. Learn strategies to be self-sufficient while living alone and what compromise means when living with others. Gain strategies to negotiate through economics and financial planning including loans, credit cards, taxation, and credit scores. Comprised of reading passages, graphic organizers, real-world activities, crossword, word search and comprehension quiz, our resource continues the study of necessary Life Skills everyone should learn before venturing out on their own. All of our content is reproducible and aligned to your State Standards and are written to Bloom's Taxonomy.







Real-Life Reading Activities for Grades 6-12


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For secondary reading specialists and English teachers, this practical resource provides over 200 ready-to-reproduce lessons and exercises to teach and reinforce basic reading skills with students of all abilities. Each lesson includes an Instructor's Page with background information and teaching suggestions followed by one or more Student Skill sheets designed for sequential development of skills that build to higher levels of reading proficiency within each section. Organized into 7 sections: Reading for Deeper Meanings, Reading and Vocabulary, Reading Diagrams: Charts, Tables & Graphs, Reading Pictures: Cartoons & Maps, Reading & Study Skills, Reading & Its Writing Connection, and Reading & Research. These lessons and activities are completely flexible and can be used with individual students or an entire class to meet particular corrective or remedial reading skill needs.




Learning How to Learn


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A surprisingly simple way for students to master any subject--based on one of the world's most popular online courses and the bestselling book A Mind for Numbers A Mind for Numbers and its wildly popular online companion course "Learning How to Learn" have empowered more than two million learners of all ages from around the world to master subjects that they once struggled with. Fans often wish they'd discovered these learning strategies earlier and ask how they can help their kids master these skills as well. Now in this new book for kids and teens, the authors reveal how to make the most of time spent studying. We all have the tools to learn what might not seem to come naturally to us at first--the secret is to understand how the brain works so we can unlock its power. This book explains: Why sometimes letting your mind wander is an important part of the learning process How to avoid "rut think" in order to think outside the box Why having a poor memory can be a good thing The value of metaphors in developing understanding A simple, yet powerful, way to stop procrastinating Filled with illustrations, application questions, and exercises, this book makes learning easy and fun.




Developing Reading Comprehension


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Developing Reading Comprehension “In recent years the debate about teaching young children to read has tended to focus upon equipping them with the crucially important knowledge and skills they need to read words accurately in and out of context, that is to say, teaching them how the alphabet works for reading and spelling. While such knowledge and skills are essential, more is required for children to become literate, fluent readers who understand what they read. In short, the goal of reading is comprehension. This book scrupulously examines the obstacles to reading comprehension and exemplifies what can be done to help children overcome them. It is an important and timely contribution to securing high-quality teaching of the range of attributes children need to become fully-fledged readers.” Sir Jim Rose, CBE “The studies by Professors Charles Hulme and Maggie Snowling and their team over two decades based around the Reading Intervention Programme are the most sustained, comprehensive and rigorous research series on reading yet conducted in the UK. Their increasing focus on children who experience the most difficulty in reading is exactly where attention should be directed. This volume summarises the team’s achievements to date, and is most eagerly awaited.” Greg Brooks, Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Sheffield, Member of European High Level Group of Experts on Literacy “Developing Reading Comprehension presents a landmark study from the top research team in the UK on how to improve reading comprehension. It’s an exemplary masters-level textbook written with undergraduate-level lucidity and approachability.” Colin Harrison, Emeritus Professor of Literacy Studies in Education, University of Nottingham A significant minority of children aged 7–11, despite being able to read fluently and accurately, have difficulty extracting meaning from text. This detailed guide offers three evidence-based intervention programmes, drawn from the cutting edge of educational psychology, for improving the reading skills of children in this group. It includes a definitive introduction to the characteristics of the ‘poor comprehender profile’, and explains how to monitor and assess students’ experiences and learning outcomes. With invaluable strategies for teachers, psychologists and special educational needs coordinators, the book will help professionals to support learners in their efforts to explore the full richness of language and to read with real understanding.




Real Life Reading Skills


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All About Words


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" ... A practical guide designed to help early childhood teachers take advantage of the unique opportunity provided by the common core state standards. It offers strategies for planning and presenting vocabulary instruction and for monitoring children's word learning progress, along with helpful appendices that provide specific guidance on which words to teach"--Cover, page [4].




Life Skills Reading: USING SCHEDULES - Visual Comprehension & Consumer Activities


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Life Skills Activities | Using Schedules | Reading Comprehension | Visual Lessons Improve Real-Life Reading Skills While Improving Independent Living Skills! Prepare students for the 'real world' with these realistic reading opportunities! Schedules are an integral part of daily life. Reading and understanding a bus or airline schedule helps us get from here to there. Understanding class and camp schedules helps us determine where and when an event will be happening. Knowing how the recycling schedule works helps us with our daily chores. Lessons include 10 colorful, highly-visual "cards" each portraying a specific real-life schedule. Follow-up comprehension questions require students to refer back to the card as they read, interpret, and use the information. Successfully completing these lessons will help give students the confidence they need to read and use schedules and become more independent. Detailed & Explicit Instruction: Some students need specific and detailed practice as they learn to understand, interpret, and apply what they have read. These realistic lessons are a great way to help students master essential life skills and provide a pathway to independence. Colorful Visual Aids: Ten 8" x 11" printable Reading Cards feature samples of schedules making these realistic lessons engaging and fun to use. Display them on your interactive white board, upload them to Easel, or simply print them out. In addition, the cards are also included in black and white. Improve Reading Comprehension Skills: After carefully reading through each schedule, ten follow-up comprehension questions challenge students to refer back to what they have read, find facts, read for details, locate answers, and then interpret and use this information. Improve Independent Living Skills: Mastering the skill of understanding and using schedules is an essential step towards independent living. Contents Include: 10 Full-Color, 8.5 “ x 11”, Realistic Schedules Cards Printable pdf lessons. Lessons can also be displayed on your whiteboard or uploaded to Easel or Google Classroom. 10 Black/White, Realistic Reading Advertisement Cards (for easy printing) 100 Follow-Up Comprehension Questions Summary: Each of the 10 highly visual "cards" portray a specific real-life reading challenge. Follow-up questions require students to refer back to the card as they read, interpret, and use the information. Great for individual students, remediation, review, transition classes, or small groups! Reading Level: 3 - 4 Interest Level: 4 - 12