Book Description
Highly-effective, field-tested lesson plans that will help transform struggling elementary and middle school students into skilled writers
Author : Karen R. Harris
Publisher : Brookes Publishing Company
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 36,89 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Education
ISBN :
Highly-effective, field-tested lesson plans that will help transform struggling elementary and middle school students into skilled writers
Author : Tasha Tropp Laman
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,74 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780325043609
A comprehensive guide to working with any English language learner (ELL) student writer. Provides insight and practical tips for getting ELL students writing, even if they are at the very beginning stages of English language acquisition. Each chapter is stocked with specific tools and strategies that help make writing instruction meet the needs of multilingual writers; illustrated classroom vignettes and samples of children's writing; and student observations and planning notes based on the information in that chapter. Includes advice on creating a classroom environment that supports ELL writers, building a community that promotes risk taking and values different experiences, creating whole group minilessons that meet the needs of emerging and fluent ELLs, scaffolding independent practice for a wide variety of ELLs, scaffolding writing conferences with tools based on ELL students' writing and language needs, facilitating and encouraging students to share and reflect.
Author : Cathy G. Cerveny
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 47,85 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780439207614
Includes mini-lessons with reproducible bookmarks, checklists, strategy cards, trifolds.
Author : Janet C. Richards
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 36,21 MB
Release : 2011-02-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 0470937203
A guide for teaching all your students the skills they need to be successful writers The 25 mini-lessons provided in this book are designed to develop students’ self-regulated writing behaviors and enhance their self-perceived writing abilities. These foundational writing strategies are applicable and adaptable to all primary students: emergent, advanced, English Language Learners, and struggling writers. Following the SCAMPER (Screen and assess, Confer, Assemble materials, Model, Practice, Execute, Reflect) mini-lesson model devised by the authors, the activities show teachers how to scaffold the writing strategies that students need in order to take control of their independent writing. Reveals helpful writing strategies, including making associations, planning, visualizing, accessing cues, using mnemonics, and more Offers ideas for helping students revise, check, and monitor their writing assignments Explains the author's proven SCAMPER model that is appropriate for students in grades K-3 Let Richards and Lassonde—two experts in the field of childhood education—guide you through these proven strategies for enhancing young children's writing skills.
Author : Sarah Kartchner Clark
Publisher : Teacher Created Materials
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 17,70 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1425811574
Help students write about science content and build their scientific thinking skills! This 2nd edition resource was created to support College and Career Readiness Standards, and provides an in-depth research base about content-area literacy instruction, including key strategies to help students write about and comprehend scientific content. Each strategy includes classroom examples by grade ranges (1-2, 3-5, 6-8 and 9-12) and necessary support materials, such as graphic organizers, templates, or digital resources to help teachers implement quickly and easily. Specific suggestions for differentiating instruction are also provided to help English language learners, gifted students, and students reading below grade level.
Author : Roy Peter Clark
Publisher : Little, Brown Spark
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 25,42 MB
Release : 2008-01-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0316028401
A special 10th anniversary edition of Roy Peter Clark's bestselling guide to writing, featuring five bonus tools. Ten years ago, Roy Peter Clark, America's most influential writing teacher, whittled down almost thirty years of experience in journalism, writing, and teaching into a series of fifty short essays on different aspects of writing. In the past decade, Writing Tools has become a classic guidebook for novices and experts alike and remains one of the best loved books on writing available. Organized into four sections, "Nuts and Bolts," "Special Effects," "Blueprints for Stories," and "Useful Habits," Writing Tools is infused with more than 200 examples from journalism and literature. This new edition includes five brand new, never-before-shared tools. Accessible, entertaining, inspiring, and above all, useful for every type of writer, from high school student to novelist, Writing Tools is essential reading.
Author : Trisha Brummer
Publisher : Shell Education
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 23,70 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781425800567
Help learners in grades 1-8 get it "write" with practical strategies to help them write and understand mathematics content. This resource is designed in an easy-to-use format providing detailed strategies, graphic organizers, and activities with classroom examples by grade ranges. Specific suggestions for differentiating instruction are included with every strategy for various levels of readers and learning styles. This resource is correlated to the Common Core State Standards and is aligned to the interdisciplinary themes from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills. 208pp. plus Teacher Resource CD
Author : Stephanie Macceca
Publisher : Teacher Created Materials
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 44,84 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1425895395
Help students write about social studies content and build their historical thinking skills! This 2nd edition resource was created to support College and Career Readiness Standards, and provides an in-depth research base about content-area literacy instruction, including key strategies to help students write about and comprehend historical content. Each strategy includes classroom examples by grade ranges (1-2, 3-5, 6-8 and 9-12) and necessary support materials, such as graphic organizers, templates, or digital resources to help teachers implement quickly and easily. Specific suggestions for differentiating instruction are also provided to help English language learners, gifted students, and students reading below grade level.
Author : Stephanie Macceca
Publisher : Teacher Created Materials
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 16,69 MB
Release : 2007-01-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 142589285X
Help budding scientists get it "write" with this treasure-trove of ready-to-implement strategies to help learners write and understand science content. This resource brings it all together in one easy-to-use format featuring an overview of the writing process, practical and detailed strategies to improve writing skills, and activities with classroom examples by grade ranges. Specific suggestions are included with every strategy to help differentiate instruction for various levels of learners and learning styles. Includes a Teacher Resource CD of activity reproducibles and graphic organizers. 2.
Author : Sarah Kartchner Clark
Publisher : Teacher Created Materials
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 32,29 MB
Release : 2007-01-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 1425890776
An AEP Award winner, this resource provides detailed strategies and activities with classroom examples across multiple grade ranges. Learn practical standards-based strategies to help students understand Social Studies content. Specific suggestions for differentiating instruction for English language learners, gifted students, and below-grade level students are included with every strategy. Includes a Teacher Resource CD of customizable graphic organizers and other student activities. This resource is correlated to the Common Core State Standards and is aligned to the interdisciplinary themes from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills. 208 pages + CD