Text-Based Writing, Grade 4 Teacher Resource


Book Description

Ideal for preparing your fourth-grade students for state writing assessments and meeting new standards, this series offers scaffolded text-based writing practice with essential nonfiction writing forms, such as: - Compare and contrast - Explanatory - Informative - Cause and effect - Opinion - Argument The 12 units provide activities that prepare students to complete text-dependent writing prompts. Each unit begins with a unit focus and lesson checklist to guide students through the learning path, which includes: - a dictionary page that introduces content words - close reading of a leveled nonfiction article - text-dependent comprehension questions to support understanding - a graphic organizer to help students organize information from the article and plan their writing - a text-dependent writing prompt - a writing evaluation that guides students in evaluating their essay Teachers will appreciate these additional resources and features - Downloadable home-school connection activities and projects help teachers encourage learning at home. - Common Core State Standards correlations are located on each unit for easy reference. - The reading level is provided to help identify appropriate texts. - The suggested learning path helps teachers pace the lesson, and makes scaffolding easy The fourth grade content-area topics fall under these categories: - Biographies - Science articles - Social studies articles







Text-Based Writing, Grade 5 Teacher Resource


Book Description

Ideal for preparing your fifth-grade students for state writing assessments and meeting new standards, this series provides scaffolded text-based writing practice with essential writing forms, such as: - Argument - Cause and effect - Compare and contrast - Explanatory - Opinion - Sequence The 12 units provide activities that prepare students to complete text-dependent writing prompts. Each unit begins with a unit focus and lesson checklist to guide students through the learning path, which includes: - a dictionary page that introduces content words - close reading of a leveled nonfiction article - text-dependent comprehension questions to support understanding - a graphic organizer to help students organize information from the article and plan their writing - a text-dependent writing prompt - a writing evaluation that guides students in evaluating their essay Teachers will appreciate these additional resources and features - Downloadable home-school connection activities and projects help teachers encourage learning at home. - Common Core State Standards correlations are located on each unit for easy reference. - The reading level is provided to help identify appropriate texts. - The suggested learning path helps teachers pace the lesson, and makes scaffolding easy The fifth grade content-area topics fall under these categories: - Biographies - Health articles - How-to articles - Science articles - Social studies articles




Nonfiction Writing, Grade 4


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Nonfiction Writing is full of activities to help your students learn and practice important skills needed to write essential nonfiction forms such as news articles, research reports, persuasive paragraphs, and personal narrativeFocused instruction on important nonfiction writing forms Provide your students with guided instruction and activities that will strengthen their nonfiction writing skills as they practice expository, persuasive, and narrative writing. Each unit centers on a basic element or specific form of nonfiction writing and includes guided lessons and accompanying student pages with activities. Each lesson targets a specific skill essential to that element or form. Because the writing forms covered are often found on standardized tests, the activities are a great tool for test prep. You'll love Nonfiction Writing because each title provides... direct instruction on the form-specific skills students need in order to master expository, persuasive, and narrative nonfiction writing. exposure to writing forms such as persuasive essay, biography, and research report, which helps prepare students for standardized testing. easy-to-follow lesson plans that present teachers with guided instruction and ideas for modeling each skill. engaging writing models, activities, and reviews that feature grade-appropriate topics to motivate students as they strengthen their writing. Each unit includes: teacher pages with guided instruction and modeling of the targeted skill, as well as reduced student pages with answers and sample responses at a glance. student activity pages that allow students to apply the writing skills they've learned. a review lesson that guides students through the process of critiquing and revising a flawed example of the writing form. Some units include an optional extension activity to further explore the skill or writing form. Help your students develop solid nonfiction writing skills with the engaging, skill-based practice in Nonfiction Writing




The Wild Book


Book Description

In early twentieth-century Cuba, bandits terrorize the countryside as a young farm girl struggles with dyslexia. Based on the life of the author's grandmother.




Math Tutor: Mastering Algebra Skills, Grades 4 - 12


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Written for students who are struggling in math, Math Tutor: Mastering Algebra Skills is an excellent tool for providing additional concept reinforcement. Each lesson in this book contains an ÒAbsorbÓ section to instruct and simplify math concepts, as well as an ÒApplyÓ section to help students grasp concepts on their own. Topics covered include fractions, order of operations, expressions and equations with variables, solving linear equations, polynomials, and more! It is great for use in the classroom or at home and fully supports NCTM standards! --Mark Twain Media Publishing Company specializes in providing captivating, supplemental books and decorative resources to complement middle- and upper-grade classrooms. Designed by leading educators, the product line covers a range of subjects including mathematics, sciences, language arts, social studies, history, government, fine arts, and character. Mark Twain Media also provides innovative classroom solutions for bulletin boards and interactive whiteboards. Since 1977, Mark Twain Media has remained a reliable source for a wide variety of engaging classroom resources.




Teaching with the Common Core Standards for English Language Arts, Grades 3-5


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"The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are the first academic standards to be independently adopted by almost every state in the country. The purpose and intent of the Common Core standards for English Language Arts (ELA), as well as Literacy in History/Social Studies and Science education, are the focus of this book. This volume is aimed at educators, administrators, graduate students, university professors, and others who deal with students in grades 3 through 5. Each of the chapters addresses one of the major English Language Arts domains: literature, informational texts, foundational skills, writing, speaking and listening, language, technology, and assessment. They contain invaluable information, insight, and research from literacy leaders in their respective fields. Their objective is twofold: to provide a theoretical background and detailed explanation of each of the CCSS/ELA standards, as well as practical suggestions, classroom vignettes, models, instructional resources, and unit ideas to implement the standards"--




Common Core English Language Arts in a PLC at Work® Grades 6-8


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Explore strategies for integrating the Common Core State Standards for English language arts for grades 6–8 in this resource, which focuses on areas of instruction, curriculum, assessment, and intervention. You’ll also learn how to implement the CCSS within the powerful PLC at WorkTM process. Critical chapter-opening questions guide discussion and help you leverage the CCSS to optimize student learning.




How to Write a Paragraph, Grades 3-5


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An intro to how to write a clear and well organized paragraph. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.




The Writing Revolution


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Why you need a writing revolution in your classroom and how to lead it The Writing Revolution (TWR) provides a clear method of instruction that you can use no matter what subject or grade level you teach. The model, also known as The Hochman Method, has demonstrated, over and over, that it can turn weak writers into strong communicators by focusing on specific techniques that match their needs and by providing them with targeted feedback. Insurmountable as the challenges faced by many students may seem, The Writing Revolution can make a dramatic difference. And the method does more than improve writing skills. It also helps: Boost reading comprehension Improve organizational and study skills Enhance speaking abilities Develop analytical capabilities The Writing Revolution is as much a method of teaching content as it is a method of teaching writing. There's no separate writing block and no separate writing curriculum. Instead, teachers of all subjects adapt the TWR strategies and activities to their current curriculum and weave them into their content instruction. But perhaps what's most revolutionary about the TWR method is that it takes the mystery out of learning to write well. It breaks the writing process down into manageable chunks and then has students practice the chunks they need, repeatedly, while also learning content.