The BIG Book of Differentiated Reading Response Activities


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Help students get more out of books they read with this big collection of tiered, reading-response activities on the topics you teach: plot, character, setting, main idea, dialogue, figurative language, and much more! Each reproducible is written at three levels--easy, medium, challenging--so you can match each child with a reproducible that's just right for them to maximize independent learning. Content meets the Common Core State Standards.




Leveled Reading-Response Activities for Guided Reading


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Leveled reading-response sheets that give students the opportunity to interact with fiction texts and practice the skills and concepts they have been taught during reading lessons--while you teach small groups!




Dream Big


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From the age of nine, Michael dreams of playing basketball for the United States in the Olympics, and with hard work and his mother's encouragement, he realizes his dream. Full color.




How to Steal a Dog


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Half of me was thinking, Georgina, don't do this. Stealing a dog is just plain wrong. The other half of me was thinking, Georgina, you're in a bad fix and you got to do whatever it takes to get yourself out of it. Georgina Hayes is desperate. Ever since her father left and they were evicted from their apartment, her family has been living in their car. With her mama juggling two jobs and trying to make enough money to find a place to live, Georgina is stuck looking after her younger brother, Toby. And she has her heart set on improving their situation. When Georgina spots a missing-dog poster with a reward of five hundred dollars, the solution to all her problems suddenly seems within reach. All she has to do is "borrow" the right dog and its owners are sure to offer a reward. What happens next is the last thing she expected. With unmistakable sympathy, Barbara O'Connor tells the story of a young girl struggling to see what's right when everything else seems wrong. How to Steal a Dog is a 2008 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year. This title has Common Core connections.




Instant Independent Reading Response Activities


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Easy-to-follow directions and reproducibles help kids work independently!




Activities for a Differentiated Classroom Level 6


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Easily implement grade appropriate lessons suitable for Grade 6 classrooms. Based on current research, these easy-to-use lessons are based on a variety of strategies to differentiate your instruction. Activities are included to allow access to all learners. Includes interactive whiteboard-compatible Resource CD with sample projects, templates, and assessment rubrics. 160pp. plus Teacher Resource CD.




Guiding Readers


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Discover a model for guided reading instruction that fits the 18-minute time frame and is purposeful, planned, and focused. This practical book introduces a range of specific reading strategies and processes that lead students to access increasingly sophisticated text. It includes collections of lessons for emergent, early, developing, and fluent readers, as well as struggling readers in the upper grades. Detailed and comprehensive, the book champions an integrated system of guiding readers that involves both fiction and nonfiction, as well as the texts that surround students in and out of school: websites, directions, instructions, schedules, signs, and more. New and experienced teachers will both find a wealth of valuable reproducibles, techniques, tips, and strategies that will help them put the tools for independent reading into the hands of every student--Publisher description.




Guided Reading Basics


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Beginning and experienced teachers both will find this book will to be an invaluable classroom resource.




Differentiated Early Literacy for English Language Learners


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Early literacy strategies for English language learners are differentiated according to five levels of language proficiency."--BOOK JACKET.




The Big Book of Reading Response Activities


Book Description

Dozens of skill-building activities and reproducibles to use before, during, and after reading.