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B 92712B 92712 40 Graphic Organizers that Build Comprehension During Independent Reading
Grade Lvl: T Author: Robb, Anina
Length: 80 Copyright: 2003
On cover: Engaging Reproducibles that Help Students Use Reading Strategies, Learn About Literary Elements, and Explore Genre. Graphic organizers can be used to help students (grades 2-4) learn to activate prior knowledge, make predictions, preview texts, visualize, retell, ask questions, sequence events, make connections, compare and contrast literary elements, identify cause and effect, make inferences, determine main idea and key details, build vocabulary, and more. Forms can be use with fiction, poetry, biography, folk and fairy tales, etc. |
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B 95534B 95534 40 Reading Intervention Strategies for K-6 Students: Research-Based Support for RTI
Grade Lvl: T Author: McEwan-Adkins, Elaine
Length: 319 Copyright: 2010
Explains forty reading intervention strategies which are appropriate for kindergarten through sixth grade and support Response to Intervention; and includes more than thirty sample lessons. |
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B 92706B 92706 40 Reproducible Forms for the Writing Traits Classroom
Grade Lvl: T Author: Culham, Ruth
Length: 64 Copyright: 2003
Subtitle: Checklists, Graphic Organizers, Rubrics and Scoring Sheets, and More to Boost Students' Writing Skills in All Seven Traits. Collection of forms for assessing students, planning instruction, communicating with parents, and teaching forms of writing. Reproducible pages. 6+1 Traits of Writing. Six Plus One Traits. Authors: Ruth Culham and Amanda Wheeler. Forty. |
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B 94266B 94266 50 Literacy Strategies for Culturally Responsive Teaching, K-8
Grade Lvl: T Author: Schmidt, Patricia
Length: 140 Copyright: 2006
Presents a collection of fifty literacy strategies for the multicultural classroom that addresses all aspects of language arts, reading, writing, speaking, and listening, as well as the math, science, and social studies disciplines. Authors: Patricia Ruggiano Schmidt and Wen Ma. |
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B 95395B 95395 50 Literacy Strategies: Step-by-Step, 4th Edition
Grade Lvl: T Author: Tompkins, Gail
Length: 158 Copyright: 2013
The fourth edition of 50 Literacy Strategies: Step by Step by Gail E. Tompkins is a conveniently organized resource for all elementary and middle school teachers, providing research-based and classroom-tested strategies to develop literacy skills. For each strategy, the book indicates the instructional focus, grade levels, and explains why, how, & when to use it. Gives the Common Core State Standards the strategy supports. Some have ideas for differentiating instruction. |
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B 94685B 94685 50 Nifty Speaking and Listening Activities: Promoting Oral Language and Comprehension
Grade Lvl: T Author: Dodson, Judith
Length: 198 Copyright: 2011
Promotes the development of oral language confidence and enhanced comprehension skills. Mirroring Judith Dodson's popular 50 Nifty Activities for 5 Components and 3 Tiers of Reading Instruction, this book includes 50 simple activities that build students' vocabulary, background knowledge, and expressive language skills. Sections: Active Listening Activities; Vocabulary Development Activities; Sentence Building Activities; Listening and Speaking Activities; and Family Connections. |
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B 92540B 92540 6 + 1 Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide Grades 3 and Up
Grade Lvl: T Author: Culham, Ruth
Length: 304 Copyright: 2003
Describes six traits of good writing in any genre, including ideas, organizations, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions, and presentation, and offers advice for teachers on how to assess student writing using the 6 + 1 TRAIT model. Includes scoring guides, sample student papers, and focus leassons and activities. Six plus one traits. Rhetoric. |
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B 90430B 90430 All Year Long: Funny Readers Theatre for Life's Special Times
Grade Lvl: T Author: Jenkins, Diana
Length: 253 Copyright: 2007
Collection of contemporary, humorous plays designed to help middle-school students address problems they face througout the year, including peer pressure, fear of failure, and jealousy. Includes a summary, prop list, costume and presentation ideas, and discussion questions for each play. For grades 6-8. |
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B 93089B 93089 And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?
Grade Lvl: T Author: Otfinoski, Steven
Length: 32 Copyright: 2003
Presents tips and reproducible materials for teaching the book by Jean Fritz in grades 3-5. Includes book summary, author profile, vocabulary builders, conprehension questions, graphic organizers, and writing activities. From the series Scholastic Book Guides. |
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B 94931B 94931 Art of Teaching Writing
Grade Lvl: T Author: Calkins, Lucy McCormick
Length: 550 Copyright: 1994
A guide to teaching writing with chapters on assessment, thematic studies, reading-writing relationships, curriculum development, and nonfiction writing. Writing workshop. Writing to learn. Teacher-student conferences. Covers teaching writing to very young children through adolescence. |
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KM 114KM 114 Benchmark Literacy Grade 4 (2 Parts)
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2014
Integrated literacy program designed around the principles of apprenticeship. Principles of an apprenticeship approach: 1.Observation & responsive teaching 2.Modeling & coaching 3.Relevant language for problem solving 4.Adjustable scaffolds 5.Structured routines 6.Assisted & independent work 7.Transfer. Program includes 10 comprehension-focused units; whole-to-small group comprehension instruction; leveled text collection & comprehension question cards; short mentor texts for whole-group skill and strategy instruction; Texts for Close Reading set; genre texts and reader's theater scripts; assessment to drive instruction and monitor progress; word study kits; posters; writer's workshop. This preview kit contains both teacher and student sample components from the fourth grade level. |
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B 95038B 95038 Best Practices Interdisciplinary Vocabulary Development: The Rule of 3
Grade Lvl: T Author: Ventriglia, Linda D.
Length: 240 Copyright: 2009
Takes teachers through the key strategies for effective and systematic vocabulary development. Steps are presented through the Rule of 3 (Rehearsal of the World; Word Analysis; Deep Processing Strategies). Designed to accelerate language learning and comprehension skills across content areas for English language learners and struggling readers. Each chapter presents specific strategies, examples, rubrics, charts, and activities. Includes reproducible worksheets for grade one through high school. |
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B 94071B 94071 Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child
Grade Lvl: T Author: Miller, Donalyn
Length: 227 Copyright: 2009
Sixth grade teacher Donalyn Miller describes the instructional approach she uses to turn children into readers, based on a combination of individual choice, a program of independent reading, a collection of high-interest books, and appropriate and authentic reading behavior modeling. |
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B 93382B 93382 Born Storytellers: Readers Theatre Celebrates the Lives and Literature of Classic Authors
Grade Lvl: T Author: Black, Ann
Length: 125 Copyright: 2005
Contains ten readers theater scripts for students in grades 6-12, based on the lives and works of authors of classic literature Louisa May Alcott, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, Roubert Louis Stevenson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Jules Verne. |
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B 93084B 93084 Boxcar Children
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 32 Copyright: 2003
Presents a guide to teaching "The Boxcar Children" by Gertrude Chandler Warner in grades three through five. Includes book summary, author profile, vocabulary builders, questions, activities, graphic organizers, and management ideas. Reproducible pages. From the series Scholastic Book Guides. |
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B 91071B 91071 Brain Teasers
Grade Lvl: T Author: Null, Kathleen
Length: 304 Copyright: 1999
Reproducible pages have activities and puzzles designed to help students develop logic and other critical thinking skills plus skills in the following areas: research, vocabulary, memory, spelling, creative thinking, math, and geography. All ages. |
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B 92230B 92230 Brain Teasers 6th Grade
Grade Lvl: T Author: Eichel, Carol
Length: 80 Copyright: 1995
Cover title: Sixth Grade Brain Teasers. Collection of reproducible activiites: famous people, geography, groups and pairs, logic, numbers, trivia, word chains and games, word completion, word puzzles and codes, and more. Critical Thinking Activities. |
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B 92228B 92228 Brain Teasers Grade 4
Grade Lvl: T Author: Eichel, Carol
Length: 80 Copyright: 1995
Cover title: Fourth Grade Brain Teasers. Collection of reproducible activities: groups and pairs, logic, mazes and word finds, numbers, trivia, word chains and games, word puzzles and codes, geography and more. Critical Thinking Activities. |
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B 92229B 92229 Brain Teasers Grade 5
Grade Lvl: T Author: Eichel, Carol
Length: 80 Copyright: 1995
Cover title: Fifth Grade Brain Teasers. Collection of reproducible activities: logic, mazes and word find, numbers, trivia, word chains, puzzles and codes, and more. Critical Thinking Activities. |
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B 92509B 92509 Bringing Words to Life: Robust Vocabulary Inst
Grade Lvl: T Author: Beck, Isabel
Length: 148 Copyright: 2002
Subtitle: Robust Vocabulary Instruction by Isabel L. Beck, Margaret G. McKeown, and Linda Kucan. Addresess the challenges associated with teaching and developing vocabulary and provides strategies and advice for dealing with these challenges. Includes activities for early childhood through high school. From the series Solving Problems in the Teaching of Literacy. |
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B 92546B 92546 Building Background Knowledge for Academic Achievement: Research on What Works in Schools
Grade Lvl: T Author: Marzano, Robert
Length: 219 Copyright: 2004
Marzano shows how a carefully structured combination of two approaches--sustained silent reading and instruction in subject-specific vocabulary terms--can help ovecome the deficiencies in background knowledge that hamper the achievement of many children. Vignettes suggest how the recommended reading and vocabulary instruction programs might be implemented in elementary schools, middle and junior high schools, and high schools. Includes a list of 7,923 vocabulary terms. Organized into 11 subject areas and four grade-level categories. Achievement gap. |
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KM 13179KM 13179 Building Fluency Card Bank - Gr. 4-6
Grade Lvl: I Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2019
Give students the practice they need to boost reading fluency—with leveled passages that help them build skills step by step! You get 80 cards divided into 10 different reading levels—each with line-by-line word counts that help children monitor their progress. Students just use the included timers to read each fiction, nonfiction or poetry passage aloud for 1 minute, then count up the number of words they read correctly! Cards come with 4 one-minute timers, 4 write & wipe reading checklists, a reproducible progress chart and a guide that includes differentiated instruction strategies. IL 4-6. |
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B 92519B 92519 Cause & Effect Grades 3-4
Grade Lvl: T Author: Riley, Gail
Length: 48 Copyright: 2001
Subtitle: Using Causes and Effects to Make Connections. Reproducible pages with reading selections and cross-curricular activities designed to help students make critical connections between an action and its effect to foster reading comprehension as well as character principles. Selections include stories, charts, schedules, maps, brochures, news articles, and more. |
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B 92518B 92518 Cause & Effect Grades 5-6
Grade Lvl: T Author: Sneller, Norm
Length: 48 Copyright: 2001
Subtitle: Using Causes and Effects to Make Connections. Reproducible pages with reading selections and cross-curricular activities designed to help students make critical connections bewteen an action and its effect to foster reading comprehension as well as character principles. Selections include stories, charts, schedules, maps, brochures, news articles, and more. |
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B 96462B 96462 Celebrating Writers: From Possibilities Through Publication
Grade Lvl: T Author: Ayres, Ruth
Length: 90 Copyright: 2013
Discusses a number of ways that teachers can promote writing and make it fun. Ruth Ayres and Christi Overman discuss dozens of ways to respond, reflect, and rejoice along the journey to a finished project. They share effective ways for teachers and their students to commemorate their progress as writers. Authorship. Grades K-8. |
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B 97234B 97234 Challenging Common Core Language Arts Lessons (Grade 3)
Grade Lvl: T Author: Talbot, Molly
Length: 172 Copyright: 2016
This activity book, from the Center for Gifted Education at William & Mary, provides gifted and advanced learners challenging activities to master and engage with the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts through four mini units. Each mini unit is packed with activities and practice problems that enrich and extend grade-level ELA content for grade 3. Included texts have messages and characters that are developmentally suitable for students. Through higher order reasoning questions, resulting discussions, and student-created products associated with these texts, gifted and advanced students' needs are met while still maintaining messages and characters to which students can relate. Students will be exposed to themes such as choices, culture, beliefs, and perseverance. Each theme was chosen with advanced third-grade students in mind and their emerging need to learn more about themselves, their world, and how to work through adversity to accomplish their goals. |
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B 97233B 97233 Challenging Common Core Language Arts Lessons (Grade 4)
Grade Lvl: T Author: Katsen, Lindsay
Length: 152 Copyright: 2016
This activity book, from the Center for Gifted Education at William & Mary, provides gifted and advanced learners challenging activities to master and engage with the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts through four mini units. Each mini unit is packed with activities and practice problems that enrich and extend grade-level ELA content for grade 4. Included texts have messages and characters that are developmentally suitable for students. Through higher order reasoning questions, resulting discussions, and student-created products associated with these texts, gifted and advanced students' needs are met while still maintaining messages and characters to which students can relate. Students will be exposed to themes such as searching for improvement, unintended effects of changes, nature and the human spirit, and overcoming struggles. Each theme was chosen with advanced fourth-grade students in mind and their emerging need to learn more about themselves, their world, and how to work through adversity to accomplish their goals. |
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B 97235B 97235 Challenging Common Core Language Arts Lessons (Grade 5)
Grade Lvl: T Author: Fitzsimmons, Magdalena
Length: 155 Copyright: 2016
This activity book, from the Center for Gifted Education at William & Mary, provides gifted and advanced learners challenging activities to master and engage with the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts through four mini units. Each mini unit is packed with activities and practice problems that enrich and extend grade-level ELA content for grade 5. Included texts have messages and characters that are developmentally suitable for students. Through higher order reasoning questions, resulting discussions, and student-created products associated with these texts, gifted and advanced students' needs are met while still maintaining messages and characters to which students can relate. Students will be exposed to themes such as the hero's journey, challenges of adolescence, dystopian society, and the battle between good and evil. Each theme was chosen with advanced fifth-grade students in mind and their emerging need to learn more about themselves, their world, and how to work through adversity to accomplish their goals. |
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B 97236B 97236 Challenging Common Core Language Arts Lessons (Grade 6)
Grade Lvl: T Author: Krejci, Christopher
Length: 191 Copyright: 2017
This activity book, from the Center for Gifted Education at William & Mary, provides gifted and advanced learners challenging activities to master and engage with the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts through four mini units. Each mini unit is packed with activities and practice problems that enrich and extend grade-level ELA content for grade 6. Included texts have messages and characters that are developmentally suitable for students. Through higher order reasoning questions, resulting discussions, and student-created products associated with these texts, gifted and advanced students' needs are met while still maintaining messages and characters to which students can relate. Students will be exposed to themes such as personal identity and growing up, civic identity and community, and cultural identity and history. Each them is chosen with advanced sixth-grade students in mind and their emerging need to learn more about themselves, their world, and how to work through adversity to accomplish their goals. |
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B 95758B 95758 Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning, 4th edition
Grade Lvl: T Author: Buehl, Doug
Length: 260 Copyright: 2014
Describes more than forty literacy skill-building strategies that may be used to help students from elementary through high school learn in all curricular areas, each including a list of resources. |
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B 93033B 93033 Classrooms That Work : They Can All Read and Write (5th Edition)
Grade Lvl: T Author: Cunningham, Patricia / Allington, Richard
Length: 278 Copyright: 2011
Chapters: Creating Classrooms That Work; Creating Enthusiastic, Independent Readers; Building the Literacy Foundation; Fostering Fluency; Teaching Phonics and Spelling Patterns; Building Vivid, Vital, and Valuable Vocabularies; Developing Thoughtful Comprehenders; Developing Ready, Willing, and Able Writers; Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum; Assessment; Differentiating Instruction for Diverse Learners; and Inside Classrooms That Work. Describes a day in a kindergarten classroom, a day in a primary classroom, and a day in an intermediate classroom. |
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B 96283B 96283 Close Look at Close Reading: Teaching Students to Analyze Complex Texts, Grades K-5
Grade Lvl: T Author: Lapp, Diane / Moss, Barbara
Length: 208 Copyright: 2015
Describes how to teach young learners to be close readers and how to make close reading a habit of practice in the elementary classroom. Literacy experts explain how to choose the right texts for students and identify initial teaching points for a close reading. Describes how to explain and model close reading to students. Explains how to use sentence frames and other strategies to support academic language use and content analysis. Discusses aligning close reading with other classroom literacies, including writing, speaking, and listening. Shows how to use formative assessment data to modify and support close reading instruction. |
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B 96556B 96556 Close Writing: Developing Purposeful Writers in Grades 2-6
Grade Lvl: T Author: Bourque, Paula
Length: 290 Copyright: 2016
Literacy coach Paula Bourque presents the guiding principles of Close Writing which she defines as cultivating a relationship between the writer and his or her writing through mindful and purposeful rereading, reflecting and revising. It can be used with any lessons or structures in the writing classroom. Gives examples from actual classrooms. The author provides considerations for ELL writers, as well as a section of interviews with authors. She shares a reference/resource guide, and a companion website with students' work samples, reproducibles and templates, and videos of classroom writing lessons. |
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B 96281B 96281 Common Core Companion: The Standards Decoded, Grades 6-8: What They Say, What They Mean, How to Teach Them
Grade Lvl: T Author: Burke, Jim
Length: 280 Copyright: 2013
A guide for teachers of grades sixth through eight to using the Common Core standards in day-to-day practice in English language arts, history and social studies, science, and technical subjects. Lays out Grade 6-8 standards side by side with key distinctions highlighted. Includes different content-area versions of each standard; explanations of each standard, with student prompts; content to cover, lesson ideas, and instructional techniques; glossary and adaptations for ELL students. |
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B 94923B 94923 Common Core Curriculum Maps in English Language Arts, Grades 6-8.
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 215 Copyright: 2012
Presents a comprehensive, coherent sequence of thematic units for teaching skills outined in the CCSS for English language arts in sixth through eighth grades. Each unit contains focus standards, student objectives, suggested works, sample activities and assessments, a sample lesson plan with guidance for differentiated instruction, and more. |
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B 95185B 95185 Common Core English Language Arts in a PLC at Work, Grades 3–5
Grade Lvl: T Author: Fisher, Douglas
Length: 0 Copyright: 2013
Provides strategies and tips for grades 3-5 teachers to integrate the CCSS for English language arts in their instruction, curriculum, assessment, and intervention practices. Details how to implement the CCSS within a powerful collaborative model: Professional Learning Communities at Work. Includes information on how to use the CCSS to support English learners and students with special needs. |
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B 95184B 95184 Common Core English Language Arts in a PLC at Work, Grades 6–8
Grade Lvl: T Author: Fisher, Douglas / Frey, Nancy
Length: 170 Copyright: 2013
Provides strategies and tips for grades 6-8 teachers to integrate the CCSS for English language arts in their instruction, curriculum, assessment, and intervention practices. Details how to implement the CCSS within a powerful collaborative model: Professional Learning Communities at Work. Includes information on how to use the CCSS to support English learners and students with special needs. |
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B 95308B 95308 Common Core: Teaching Students in Grades 6-12 to Meet the Reading Standards
Grade Lvl: T Author: McLaughlin, Maureen / Overturf, Brenda
Length: 237 Copyright: 2013
Explains the key points of the Common Core State Standards and describes how to use the Standards effectively in grades 6-12 instruction. Language arts Curricula. |
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B 92521B 92521 Compare & Constrast Grades 5-6
Grade Lvl: T Author: Roy, Jennifer
Length: 48 Copyright: 2000
Subtitle: Using Comparisons and Contrasts to Build Comprehension. Reproducible pages with exercises are designed to build reading comprehension and give students the skills necessary for finding similarities and differences in text. Cross-curricular topics help build vocabulary. Lessons are linked to other areas of the curriculum such as math, science, and social studies. |
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B 92522B 92522 Compare & Contrast Grades 3-4
Grade Lvl: T Author: Jenks, Wendy
Length: 48 Copyright: 2000
Subtitle: Using Comparisons and Contrasts to Build Comprehension. Reproducible pages with exercises are designed to build reading comprehension and give students the skills necessary for finding similarities and differences in text. Cross-curricular topics help build vocabulary. Lessons are linked to other areas of the curriculum such as math, science, and social studies. |
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B 96817B 96817 Conferring with Young Writers: What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do
Grade Lvl: T Author: Ackerman, Kristin / McDonough, Jennifer
Length: 144 Copyright: 2016
Provides a classroom management system that offers routine and structure for giving the most effective feedback in a writing conference. This book will help writing teachers--and students--learn to break down and utilize the qualities that enable good writing: elaboration, voice, structure, conventions, and focus. |
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B 94041B 94041 Content Area Reading, Writing, and Storytelling: A Dynamic Tool for Improving Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum through Oral Language Development
Grade Lvl: T Author: Ellis, Brian
Length: 255 Copyright: 2009
Presents resources designed to help teachers use storytelling, reading, and writing in all content areas, which will improve students' reading fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary skills. Grades K-6. Chapters: How to Tell and Learn the Tale; Storytelling and the Reading-Writing Connection; Storytelling and Social Studies; Storytelling and Science; Storytelling, Math, and Problem Solving; Creating Thematic Units; and Building a Community of Learners. |
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B 93057B 93057 Content-Area Writing: Every Teacher's Guide
Grade Lvl: T Author: Daniels, Harvey
Length: 278 Copyright: 2007
Harvey Daniels, Steven Zemelman, and Nancy Steineke present an exploration of writing in the subject areas at the middle and secondary levels. Book is organized around two kinds of writing, writing to learn and public writing. Writing to Learn is the quick, exploratory, and extemporaneous in-class writing that helps students engage deeply with content, build connections, and retain what they've learned (examples are pro-con lists, outlines, concept mapping, journaling, diagrams, response logs, and clustering). Public Writing is planned, constructed, and polished writing in which students demonstrate knowledge and reflect on what they've learned (examples are research papers, lab reports, proposals, mathematical proofs, biographies, editorials, reviews, speeches, essays, plays, letters, and literary criticism). |
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B 94765B 94765 Continuum of Literacy Learning (PK-8)
Grade Lvl: T Author: Pinnell, Gay Su
Length: 404 Copyright: 2011
A curriculum document and assessment tool that may be used by teachers to understand the literacy learning of students from prekindergarten through eighth grade in the areas of interactive read-alouds and literature discussion, writing, writing about reading, shared and performance reading, guided reading, phonics and spelling, and oral, visual, and technological communication. Authors: Gay Su Pinnell and Irene C. Fountas. |
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B 97150B 97150 Create, Compose, Connect! Reading, Writing and Learning with Digital Tools
Grade Lvl: T Author: Hyler, Jeremy / Hicks, Troy
Length: 200 Copyright: 2014
Find out how to incorporate digital tools into your English language arts class to improve students’ reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills. Authors Jeremy Hyler and Troy Hicks show you that technology is not just about making a lesson engaging; it’s about helping students become effective creators and consumers of information in today’s fast-paced world. You’ll learn how to use mobile technologies to teach narrative, informational, and argument writing as well as visual literacy and multimodal research. Each chapter is filled with exciting lesson plans and tech tool suggestions that you can take back to your own classroom immediately. |
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B 94378B 94378 Creating Writers Through 6-Trait Writing (5th Ed)
Grade Lvl: T Author: Spandel, Vicki
Length: 418 Copyright: 2009
A model for teaching students how to assess their writing and link assessment to revision, including focused lessons on the six traits of good writing, advice for adapting the six-trait teaching model, and samples of student writing. Bibliographical references. Children's writings evaluation. Rhetoric. Prose. |
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B 95515B 95515 Daily 5: Fostering Literacy in the Elementary Grades (Second Edition)
Grade Lvl: T Author: Boushey, Gail / Moser, Joan
Length: 208 Copyright: 2014
The Daily 5 provides a way for an teacher to structure literacy time to increase student independence and allow for individualized attention in small groups and one-on-one. The Daily Five literacy tasks which students complete each day while the teacher meets with small groups or confers with individuals include: 1. Read to Self; 2. Read to Someone; 3. Work on Writing; 4. Listen to Reading; and 5. Word Work. The second edition includes information on materials & setup, model behaviors, detailed lesson plans, specific tips for implementing each component, and solutions to common challenges. Also includes a chapter on Math Daily 3 (Math by Myself; Math Writing; Math with Someone). Authors: Gail Boushey and Joan Moser, "the Sisters." Grades K-5. |
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B 94604B 94604 Daily 6-Trait Writing, Grade 4
Grade Lvl: T Author: Moor, Evan
Length: 160 Copyright: 2008
Presents reproducible student pages, 125 trait-based lessons, writing prompts, teaching suggestions, and assessment rubrics designed to help students in fourth grade practice and improve theirwriting skills. |
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B 94605B 94605 Daily 6-Trait Writing, Grade 5
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 160 Copyright: 2008
Presents reproducible student pages, 125 trait-based lessons, writing prompts, teaching suggestions, and assessment rubrics designed to help students in fifth grade practice and improve their writing skills. |
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B 94606B 94606 Daily 6-Trait Writing, Grade 6+
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 160 Copyright: 2008
Contains 125 lessons based on the six traits of writing that are appropriate for students in sixth grade and up, including lesson plans, reproducible student sheets, writing prompts, scaffolding instructions, and assessment rubrics. |
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B 96148B 96148 Daily Analogies, Level 4
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 40 Copyright: 1991
On cover: Oral Activities for Critical and Creative Thinking: Vocabulary Development; Test-Taking Skills. Purpose of the program is to develop higher-order thinking skills, to foster a diversity of problem solving techniques and to build reading skills through vocabulary enrichment. Analogical thinking. Test preparation. |
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B 96149B 96149 Daily Analogies, Level 5
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 40 Copyright: 1991
On cover: Oral Activities for Critical and Creative Thinking: Vocabulary Development; Test-Taking Skills. Purpose of the program is to develop higher-order thinking skills, to foster a diversity of problem solving techniques and to build reading skills through vocabulary enrichment. Analogical thinking. Test preparation. |
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B 96150B 96150 Daily Analogies, Level 6
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 40 Copyright: 1991
On cover: Oral Activities for Critical and Creative Thinking: Vocabulary Development; Test-Taking Skills. Purpose of the program is to develop higher-order thinking skills, to foster a diversity of problem solving techniques and to build reading skills through vocabulary enrichment. Analogical thinking. Test preparation. |
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B 92049B 92049 Daily Language Review, Grade 4, New Edition
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 136 Copyright: 2009
Contains reproducible pages, skill lists, and answer keys for thirty-six weekly units that provide reviews of language arts topics included in the state standards for fourth grade, covering editing, punctuation, grammar, vocabulary, spelling, and comprehension. Provides five items for every day of a 36-week school year, presented in a standardized-testing format. For the teacher there are scope-and-sequence charts, suggestions for use, and answer keys. |
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B 92048B 92048 Daily Language Review, Grade 5
Grade Lvl: T Author: Moore, Jo
Length: 112 Copyright: 1998
Provides language skills practice presented in standardized testing formats. Practice reading, comprehension, sentence editing, punctuation, grammar, vocabulary and word study, spelling, and reference skills. Reproducible pages. |
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B 92047B 92047 Daily Language Review, Grade 6
Grade Lvl: T Author: Norris, Jill
Length: 112 Copyright: 2000
Provides language skills practice presented in standardized testing formats. Practice reading, comprehension, sentence editing, punctuation, grammar, vocabulary and word study, spelling, and reference skills. Reproducible pages. |
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B 96197B 96197 Daily Oral Language Plus, Level 4
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 36 Copyright: 1993
Grade 4 Teacher's Manual. Reviews and reinforces skills in the areasof spelling, capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and usage. Gives students repeated opportunities to develop and practice oral language and proofreading skills. |
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B 96198B 96198 Daily Oral Language Plus, Level 5
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 36 Copyright: 1993
Grade 5 Teacher's Manual. Reviews and reinforces basic skills in theareas of spelling, capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and usage. Gives students repeated opportunities to develop and practice oral language and proofreading skills. |
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B 96199B 96199 Daily Oral Language Plus, Level 6
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 36 Copyright: 1993
Grade 6 Teacher's Manual. Reviews and reinforces basic skills in theareas of spelling, capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and usage. Gives students repeated opportunities to develop and practice oral language and proofreading skills. |
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B 96270B 96270 Daily Phonics, Grades 4-6+
Grade Lvl: T Author: Allman, Barbara
Length: 208 Copyright: 2012
Provides explicit, systematic phonics instruction and practice in 15 to 20 minutes a day. Daily Phonic Practice Grade 4-6+ Reproducible Teacher's Edition helps students, ELL students, and struggling readers first learn basic phonics skills typically mastered in grades 1, 2, and 3, and then progress to skills taught in grade 4. Lessons and activities are designed with age-appropriate formats that respect the older learner. The 32 weekly units in grades 4-6+ cover a review of inital and final consonants, short vowel patterns, long vowel patterns, syllabication, initial and final blends and digraphs, r-controlled vowels, hard and soft c and g, double consonants, the schwa sound, vowel digraphs and diphthongs, plurals, irregular plurals, silent letters, inflectional endings, prefixes, suffixes, and contractions. Reproducible pages. |
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KM 11023KM 11023 Daybook/Sourcebook: Read & Writing, Grade 4
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2002
A Daybook is a keepable journal-like book designed to improve students' reading and writing. Purpose is to engage students in brief, integrated reading and writing activities daily or at least weekly. By asking students regularly to read good literature and write about it, students will become betters readers and writers. Goals are relected in the headings of the units: To teach students how to read actively; To build the essential skills (such as finding the main idea) for reading well; To develop an appreciation for the elements of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction; To create a love and appreciation of language; and To introduce students to and foster an appreciation of fine authors and great literature. Reading & Writing Sourcebooks feature classic and contemporary literature selections--fiction and nonfiction--supported by direct reading and writing instruction to help students develop effective strategies for understanding and interpreting literature. Response activities draw students into each selection and guide them through different stages of reading, understanding, interpreting, and writing about literature using a five-step lesson plan that: Helps students develop effective strategies for reading success; Provides prewriting activities to focus students on each selection; Includes comprehension-building activities; and Teaches grammar, usage, and mechanics to strengthen writing skills. Contents: Daybook teacher's guide, student book, research based pamphlet, and tables of contents booklet; and Sourcebook teacher's guide, student book, research base pamphlet, and tables of contents booklet. Two-week loan period. |
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B 92987B 92987 Developing Reading Fluency, Grade 4
Grade Lvl: T Author: Callella, Trisha
Length: 96 Copyright: 2003
Provides tools and activities for teaching fourth grade reading fluency using modeled reading, phrasing, and repeated oral reading, including interactive read-alouds, phrasing, memory challenges, plays for two, reader's theater, read-arounds, and intervention activities. |
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B 90923B 90923 Dictionary Activities
Grade Lvl: T Author: Leaney, Cindy
Length: 150 Copyright: 2007
Presents a wide range of activities designed to help students learn how to use different types of dictionaries and find the information they need. Explains basics such as what the features of a dictionary are and how to navigate a dictionary, through more complex topics such as collocations, idioms and word building. Also looks at the use of electronic dictionaries and specialized dictionaries such as picture dictionaries. Includes activities that deal with vocabulary-building, grammar, pronunciation, reading and writing. Each activity is laid out to show the aim, focus, level and time plus any preparation needed. From the series Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers. |
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B 95449B 95449 Differentiating Instruction With Menus: Language Arts (Grades 3-5)
Grade Lvl: T Author: Westphal, Laurie
Length: 127 Copyright: 2007
Contains four different types of reproducible menus, based on the levels of Bloom's revised taxonomy, teachers may use to differentiate language arts instruction, and includes assessment rubrics and student activity pages. On cover: Advanced-Level Menus Grades 3-5. |
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B 95450B 95450 Differentiating Instruction With Menus: Language Arts (Grades 6-8)
Grade Lvl: T Author: Westphal, Laurie
Length: 151 Copyright: 2009
Discusses the benefits of using menus to create a student-centered, differentiated learning environment in middle school language arts classes, and provides resources including reproducible menus, guidelines for products, assessment rubrics, and teaching tips. On cover: Advanced-Level Menus Grades 6-8. |
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B 96529B 96529 Discovering Voice: Lessons to Teach Reading and Writing of Complex Text
Grade Lvl: T Author: Dean, Nancy
Length: 160 Copyright: 2015
Discovering Voice is a collection of classroom exercises that helps students deeply understand the reading and writing of complex text. The lessons, which cover diction, detail, figurative language, imagery, syntax, and tone, help students understand voice in what they read and encourage them to develop a strong, personal voice in their own writing. Every voice lesson includes a quotation selected from a wide range of fiction and nonfiction text, two discussion questions, and an exercise that encourages students to practice what they have learned about the elements of voice. These lessons are specifically designed for students in middle and high school. The lessons provide focused practice for a specific element of voice and take 10 to 20 minutes of class time. |
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B 97572B 97572 Doing Language Arts in Morning Meeting
Grade Lvl: T Author: Luongo, Jodie / Riordan, Joan
Length: 225 Copyright: 2015
Quick and easy to teach and do, these activities offer K–6 teachers engaging ways to give students rich practice in language arts. Find language arts-themed ideas for all four components of Morning Meeting, including activities created to fit the needs, interests, and content area focus for a wide variety of students. IL K-6. |
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B 99997B 99997 Easy Mini-Lessons for Building Vocabulary
Grade Lvl: T Author: Robb, Laura
Length: 96 Copyright: 1999
Subtitle: Practical Strategies That Boost Word Knowledge and Reading Comprehension. Grades 4-8. |
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B 93047B 93047 Engaging Readers & Writers with Inquiry: Promoting Deep Understandings in Language Arts and the Content Areas With Guiding Questions
Grade Lvl: T Author: Wilhelm, Jeffrey D.
Length: 176 Copyright: 2007
Wilhelm debunks the myth that teaching through inquiry is hard. He shares ideas for developing engaging authentic questions that move students toward deep understandings. Includes: examples of guiding questions for every content area; planning guidelines and sample inquiry units; research-based tips for cultivating productive discussions; secret prompts, walkarounds, other activities that deepen thinking about topics; examples of Question Answer Relationships (QAR); and other questioning techniques that promote inquiry-oriented reading. For use with Grades 4 and up. |
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B 92169B 92169 English Brainstormers!
Grade Lvl: T Author: Umstatter, Jack
Length: 292 Copyright: 2002
Subtitle: Ready-To-Use Games & Activities That Make Language Skills Fun To Learn. Covers grammar, mechanics, vocabulary, creative writing, literature, research, and critical thinking. Includes crosswords, word searches, scrambled words, magic squares, letter substitutions, cryptograms, and word play--plus activities on story writing, literacy analysis, word origins, and more. For grades 6-12. |
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B 93081B 93081 Favorite Greek Myths
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 16 Copyright: 2003
Study guide to Mary Pope Osborne's "Favorite Greek Myths" for students in grades six through nine. Includes book summary, author profile, vocabulary builders, comprehension and discussion questions, graphic organizers and writing activities. Reproducible pages. From the series Scholastic Book Guides. |
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B 92298B 92298 File Folder Games Social Studies Gr. K-3
Grade Lvl: T Author: Finch, Karen
Length: 383 Copyright: 1992
Reproducible pages provide art and instructions for making 44 manipulative games. Topics: U.S. geography and history; transportation; safety; community helpers; family relationships; emotions; holidays; and more. |
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B 94621B 94621 Foldables, Notebook Foldables, and VKVs for Spelling and Vocabulary: Test Prep, Academic Vocabulary, and ESL Strategies
Grade Lvl: T Author: Zike, Dinah
Length: 423 Copyright: 2009
Intermediate to Advanced 4th-12th Grades. At head of title: Dinah Zike's Photographic Reference Guide to Kinesthetic Graphic Organizers. Contains over 1,600 color photos of Foldables, Notebook Foldables and VKVs (Visual Kinesthetic Vocabulary). Organized alphabetically with sections including abbreviations, acronyms, analogies, antonyms, clipped words, root words, synonyms, and more with word lists in each section. Spelling rules are noted in red within the word lists and throughout the book. Special word lists are presented in Venn diagram format to graphically illustrate relationships between sounds and different spellings. Includes Foldables instructions and VKV folding instructions. |
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B 96525B 96525 Formative Assessment in the New Balanced Literacy Classroom
Grade Lvl: T Author: Policastro, Margaret Mary / McTague, Becky
Length: 168 Copyright: 2016
Guide explains the use of school-wide formative assessment practices in the balanced literacy classroom for grades K-8. It integrates the new balanced literacy model with formative assessment, along with the Common Core State Standards, and discusses the history of formative assessment and balanced literacy, the formative assessment process, and a framework for balanced literacy, the Common Core, instructional shifts, and formative assessment. It then describes assessment of read-alouds, guided reading/writing, language and literacy centers, and independent reading and writing, ending with a guide for school leaders on school-wide implementation and providing feedback to parents. Includes reproducible pages. |
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KM 10057KM 10057 Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark Assessment System 2
Grade Lvl: T Author: Fountas, Irene / Pinnell, Gay Su
Length: 0 Copyright: 2008
Assessment kit by Irene C. Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell is designed to determine a child's reading level on the Fountas & Pinnell A-Z gradient. For grades 3-8. Levels L-Z. Contents: teaching guide; assessment guide; assessment forms book; student forms book; DVD; two CD-ROMs; calculator/stopwatch; student folders; and 30 books (15 fiction, 15 nonfiction). Intended for Preview Purposes only. Two-week loan period. |
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KM 12707KM 12707 Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark Assessment System 2 Third Edition
Grade Lvl: T Author: Fountas, Irene / Pinnell, Gay Su
Length: 0 Copyright: 2017
Assessment kit by Irene C. Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell is designed to determine a child's reading level on the Fountas & Pinnell A-Z gradient. For grades 3-8. Levels L-Z. Contents: The Literacy Continuum Expanded Edition; Assessment Forms book; Assessment Guide Levels L-Z; Student Forms Optional Assessments book; calculator/stopwatch; and 30 student books (15 fiction, 15 nonfiction). Also includes folder with overview, case studies, and sample books. Intended for preview purposes only. Two-week loan period. |
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B 96748B 96748 Fountas & Pinnell Literacy Continuum: A Tool for Assessment, Planning, and Teaching, PreK-8 Expanded Ed.
Grade Lvl: T Author: Fountas, Irene / Pinnell, Gay Su
Length: 668 Copyright: 2017
This expanded edition enables teachers to construct a common vision for student achievement that effectively and efficiently engages all students in the robust, authentic and meaningful literacy learning every child deserves. The Literacy Continuum provides a way to look for specific evidence of learning from prekindergarten through grade eight, and across eight instructional contexts. Each instructional context contributes substantially, in different but complementary ways, to students' development of the literacy process. The continuum describes text characteristics and behavioral goals for prekindergarten through middle school, across the areas pertinent to the language arts. Expanded Edition is designed to: -elevate language and literacy expertise; -develop an understanding of the demands of texts on readers; -build an understanding of the reading and writing process and how it changes over time; -hone the observation of students' literacy behaviors; -teach toward student integration of the Systems of Strategic Actions; -articulate the literacy curriculum within and across grade levels -activate the responsive teaching that meets students where they are and brings them forward with intention and precision; -build professional learning opportunities with colleagues; -create a common vision and common language for literacy. Fountas & Pinnell include eight different continua. Each focuses on a different aspect of their language and literacy instructional framework (Guided Reading: Responsive Teaching Across the Grades #96748) and each contributes to students' development of reading, writing, and language processes. The Literacy Continuum includes: 1.Interactive Read-Aloud and Literature Discussion 2.Shared & Performance Reading 3.Writing About Reading 4.Writing 5.Oral & Visual Communication 6.Technological Communication 7.Phonics, Spelling, and Word Study 8.Guided Reading |
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B 92794B 92794 Four Square Writing Method for Grades 4-6
Grade Lvl: T Author: Gould, Judith
Length: 112 Copyright: 1999
Presents a step-by-step approach to teaching writing skills using a graphic organizer. The four square visual organizer helps students conceptualize, understand, and structure their work. It can be adapted for expository, narrative, descriptive and persuasive styles of writing. Provides many reproducible pages, samples and writing prompts. |
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B 92797B 92797 Four Square: The Total Writing Classroom for Gr 5-
Grade Lvl: T Author: Gould, Judith
Length: 112 Copyright: 2002
A companion to the Four Square Writing Method. Presents projects and activities designed for use with the Four Square method of writing instruction in grades five through nine, covering the areas of language connections, management tools for writing projects, warm-ups and mini-lessons, and composition writing. |
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B 92796B 92796 Four Square: Total Writing Classroom for Gr 1-4
Grade Lvl: T Author: Gould, Judith
Length: 112 Copyright: 2002
A companion to the Four Square Writing Method. Presents reproducible writing exercises for the first through fourth grade classroom, and contains management tools for writing projects, lesson plans, and age-appropriate writing activities. |
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B 91445B 91445 Frantic Frogs & Other Frankly Fractured Folktales
Grade Lvl: T Author: Fredericks, Anthony
Length: 123 Copyright: 1993
Complete title: Frantic Frogs and Other Frankly Fractured Folktales For Readers Theatre. Resource offers more than 20 reproducible satirical scripts (parodies) for dramatics. Also contains guidelines and tips for using theatre in the classroom. Grades 4-8. |
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B 90326B 90326 From Phonics to Fluency (2nd Edition)
Grade Lvl: T Author: Rasinski, Timothy V.
Length: 317 Copyright: 2008
Subtitle: Effective Teaching of Decoding and Reading Fluency in the Elementary School by Timothy V. Rasinski and Nancy D. Padak. Presents instructional strategies and examples of fluency practices that have been successful in real classrooms. Focus is on phonemic awareness, fluency, and phonics and word study. Some topics: onsets, rimes, and basic phonic patterns, advanced word patterns, word walls, word banks and word sorts, contextual word recognition, word games, spelling, fluency, instructional routines, assessing word recognition, involving parents in word study, etc. Adds a new chapter to the first edition: Phonics and Fluency: Concerns, Caveats, and Critical Consumerism. Appendices: Common Rimes, Fry Instant Word List, Prefixes, Suffixes, Greek and Latin Word Patterns, and Websites for Word Study. |
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B 95209B 95209 Get Those Guys Reading!: Fiction and Series Books that Boys Will Love
Grade Lvl: T Author: Baxter, Kathleen / Kochel, Marcia
Length: 220 Copyright: 2012
Provides reading suggestions for fiction books and book series that may appeal to boys in grades three through nine, including the genres of adventure, horror, science fiction, humorous fiction, and sport stories. |
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B 94047B 94047 Get Up and Move with Nonfiction, Grades 4-8
Grade Lvl: T Author: Polette, Nancy
Length: 163 Copyright: 2008
Contains instructions for one hundred kinesthetic activities which use nonfiction materials and promote learning in students in fourth through eighth grade, covering science, mathematics, geometry, and U.S. history. Many activities are in game and/or dramatic presentation format. Activities include Reader's Theatre to solve story problems in math, mnemonics to remember the names and geographic location of the 50 states, nonfiction storytelling using historical events, and charades to learn and discuss how animals move. |
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B 94613B 94613 Getting Beyond "I Like the Book": Creating Space for Critical Literacy in K-6 Classrooms
Grade Lvl: T Author: Vasquez, Vivian
Length: 148 Copyright: 2010
The author describes her experiences, as well as those of other educators, attempting to create spaces for critical literacy in kindergarten through sixth grade classrooms through the use of children's books, and includes practical classroom strategies and lists of children's literature. |
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B 95189B 95189 Good to Great Teaching: Focusing on the Literacy Work that Matters
Grade Lvl: T Author: Howard, Mary
Length: 137 Copyright: 2012
Provides a step-by-step process for focusing on the literacy work that matters in any effective literacy design--including schools implementing the Common Core State Standards and an RTI model--to identify good work, to celebrate great work, and to accommodate high quality literacy practices. |
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B 93015B 93015 Graphic Organizers and Activities for Differentiated Instruction in Reading
Grade Lvl: T Author: Witherell, Nancy L. / McMackin, Mary C.
Length: 112 Copyright: 2002
Presents over fifty graphic organizers and activity sheets that may be used for differentiated reading instruction in grades 4-8. |
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B 93376B 93376 Great Moments in Science: Experiments and Readers Theatre
Grade Lvl: T Author: Haven, Kendall
Length: 227 Copyright: 1996
Combines the use of stories and experiments to teach science through twelve readers theatre scripts that highlight significant discoveries in Western science, each including hands-on instructions for recreating the scientist's work. Archimedes/lever; Galileo/falling objects; Torricelli/air pressure; Newton/gravity; Franklin/electricity; Rumford/heat; Mitchell/comet; Pasteur/microorganisms; Mendel/heredity; Goddard/rocket; Curie/radioactivity; Hodgkin/penicillin. For grades 4-9. |
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B 96622B 96622 Handbook of Reading Interventions
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 436 Copyright: 2011
Handbook presents evidence-based approaches for helping struggling readers and those at risk for literacy difficulties or delays. Leading experts explain how research on all aspects of literacy translates into innovative classroom practices. Chapters include descriptions of effective interventions for word recognition, spelling, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing, complete with concrete examples and teaching scripts. Coverage also encompasses preschool literacy instruction and interventions for older readers, English language learners, and students with learning disabilities, as well as peer-mediated and tutoring approaches. Edited by Rollanda E. O'Connor and Patricia F.Vadasy. |
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KM 10565KM 10565 Handwriting Without Tears--Cursive Kit
Grade Lvl: PI Author: Olsen, Jan
Length: 0 Copyright: 2013
Handwriting curriculum kit contents: 3rd Grade Cursive Teacher's Guide: Guide to Multisensory Lessons and Activities; 3rd Grade Workbook (Cursive Handwriting); 4th Grade Cursive Teacher's Guide; 4th Grade Workbook (Cursive Success); two 5th Grade Workbooks (Can-Do Print and Can-Do Cursive); and blackboard with double lines. |
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B 92809B 92809 How and Why Stories for Readers Theatre
Grade Lvl: T Author: Wolfman, Judy
Length: 166 Copyright: 2004
Presents a collection of 40 theater scripts for the first through fifth-grade classroom that are based upon traditional multicultural folktales and Native American legends. Pourquoi stories. Reproducible pages. |
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B 96157B 96157 How to Get Better Test Scores, Gr. 5-6
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 52 Copyright: 1998
Complete title: How to Get Better Test Scores on Standardized Tests. Provides test-taking and reading tips for students in fifth & sixth grade. Contains ten reproducible lessons dealing with vocabulary and reading comprehension. 1. Word Meaning. 2. Word Analysis. 3. Synonyms and Antonyms. 4. Context Clues. 5. Main Idea and Details. 6. Constructing Meaning. 7. Drawing Conclusions. 8. Evaluation Information. 9. Characters and Plot I. 10. Reading Literature. Includes two tryout tests. Test preparation. |
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B 93001B 93001 Independent Reading Activities That Keep Kids Learning---While You Teach Small Groups
Grade Lvl: T Author: Finney, Susan
Length: 128 Copyright: 2003
Contains fifty reproducible activity sheets for individual reading practice, designed for students in grades 3-6, and includes tips on managing classroom literacy centers. Includes activities for exploring genre, word study, nonfiction reading, responding to literature, easy long-term projects, etc. Suggests ways to differentiate literacy center activities to meet the needs of all students in a multi-ability classroom. |
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B 93080B 93080 Indian in the Cupboard
Grade Lvl: T Author: Beech, Linda
Length: 16 Copyright: 2003
Presents tips and reproducible materials for teaching the book "The Indian in the Cupboard" in grades three through five. Includes author information on Lynne Reid Banks, book summary, comprehension and discussion questions, vocabulary builders, writing activities, and graphic organizers. From the series Scholastic Book Guides. |
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B 92525B 92525 Inferencing Grades 3-4
Grade Lvl: T Author: Karwowski, Cindy
Length: 48 Copyright: 2000
Subtitle: Using Context Clues to Infer Meaning. Reproducible pages with high interest articles and activities designed to improve reading comprehension. Inferencing requires the reader to make educated guesses based on prior knowledge and on information that is implied, but not directly stated. Exercises increase in difficulty as the book progresses. |
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B 92524B 92524 Inferencing Grades 5-6
Grade Lvl: T Author: Roy, Jennifer
Length: 48 Copyright: 2000
Subtitle: Using Context Clues to Infer Meaning. Reproducible pages with high interest articles and activities designed to improve reading comprehension. Inferencing requires the reader to make educated guesses based on prior knowledge and on information that is implied, but not directly stated. Exercises increase in difficulty as the book progresses. |
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B 92130B 92130 Infusion Lessons: Infusion Lessons: Teaching Critical & Creative Thinking in Language Arts (Grades 5 and 6)
Grade Lvl: T Author: Swartz, Robert
Length: 371 Copyright: 1999
Collection of lessons that combine deep content learning with quality thinking to enhance content instruction. Teacher scripts, assessment ideas, writing samples and modificationsfor special needs students are included. Graphic organizers. Topics:decision making, problem solving, comparing and contrasting, classification, parts-whole, sequencing, reasons and conclusions, uncovering assumptions, generating possibilities, metaphors, reliability of sources, causal explanations, prediction, generalization, analogy, conditional reasoning. |
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B 92128B 92128 Infusion Lessons: Teaching Critical & Creative Thinking in Language Arts (Grades 3 and 4)
Grade Lvl: T Author: Swartz, Robert
Length: 446 Copyright: 1999
Collection of lessons that combine deep content learning with quality thinking to enhance content instruction. Teacher scripts, assessment ideas, writing samples and modification for special needs students are included. Graphic organizers. Topics: decision making, problem solving, comparing and contrasting, classification, parts-whole, sequencing, reasons and conclusions, uncovering assumptions, generating possibilitites, metaphors, reliability of sources, casual explanations, prediction, generalization, analogy, conditional reasoning. |
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KM 66KM 66 Journeys Common Core, Grade 6
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2014
Sampler Kit from the Journeys Common Core Grade 6 curriculum. |
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B 93379B 93379 Just Deal With It!: Funny Readers Theatre for Life's Not-So-Funny Moments
Grade Lvl: T Author: Jenkins, Diana
Length: 239 Copyright: 2004
Contains a collection of 19 humorous plays with real-life settings and includes theater scripts on annoying traits, school dilemmas, and embarrassing moments. |
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B 92692B 92692 Keep the Rest of the Class Reading & Writing--While You Teach Small Groups
Grade Lvl: T Author: Finney, Susan
Length: 128 Copyright: 2000
Contains sixty reproducible activities teachers may use to teach reading and writing skills to students in grades three through six, many with links to novels and nonfiction books. Chapters include partner centers, writing at centers, author studies, small group literature studies, challenge centers and independent study projects, genre studies, and more. |
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B 92941B 92941 Kids' Poems: Teaching Third & Fourth Graders to Love Writing Poetry
Grade Lvl: T Author: O'Day, Shannon
Length: 88 Copyright: 2000
Discusses how third and fourth grade teachers can help their students appreciate poetry and give them the confidence to write their own poems. Includes a selection of student poems. |
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KM 12336KM 12336 Launching the Writer's Workshop Grades 3-12, 2nd Edition
Grade Lvl: T Author: Smekens, Kristina / Scane, Maureen
Length: 126 Copyright: 2010
Resource is divided into 2 parts - Part 1 provides lessons for the initial weeks of school: techniques, procedures, methods, and strategies - Part 2 focuses on writing skills teachers address all year long: plans for 50 additional mini-lessons, skills sorted by 6 traits, and ways to teach students how to craft stronger writing. Each mini-lesson includes a detailed description of the lesson execution; spin-off activities; suggestions for using anchor paper or mentor text for support; teacher tips for lesson insight; and reproducible resources. Kit contains book and CD with reproducible handouts. |
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B 95858B 95858 Literacy Teacher's Playbook, Grades 3-6: Four Steps for Turning Assessment Data into Goal-Directed Instruction
Grade Lvl: T Author: Serravallo, Jennifer
Length: 173 Copyright: 2014
Shares a four-step assessment protocol--collect, analyze, synthesize, and develop--in order to improve the teaching and learning process in third through sixth grade classrooms. |
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KM 11865KM 11865 Literary Elements Toolkit, Grades 4-8
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2012
Toolkit uses picture books to help teach key literary elements. Includes eight high-interest picture books, hand-picked by literature experts to facilitate a dynamic way of teaching of setting, point of view, plot, characterization, theme, foreshadowing, flashback, and figurative language. The toolkit also comes with a companion teaching guide for each picture book, a poster for each literary element, recommendations for meeting common core state standards, and a copy of the professional resource, Using Picture Books to Teach 8 Essential Literary Elements. Two-week loan period. |
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B 99523B 99523 Literature Circles and Response
Grade Lvl: T Author: Hill, Bonnie
Length: 283 Copyright: 1995
Guidebook for introducing or further developing literature circles in the classroom and assisting students to become more reflective and critical thinkers and readers. Demonstrates how literature circles are most beneficial when they are integrated within an inquiry-based curriculum. Ideas for creating literature circles focus on emergent, primary, and intermediate readers. Includes charts that summarize models of the response methods used by the students, literature extensions, suggested journal responses, and an annotated bibliography with listings organized by theme and genre. |
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B 99567B 99567 Literature Circles: Voice and Choice In Book Clubs and Reading Groups, (2nd Edition)
Grade Lvl: T Author: Daniels, Harvey
Length: 260 Copyright: 2002
Provides specific techniques for starting and managing literature circles. Includes ideas and suggestions for extending literature circles across the curriculum and reproducible role sheets in English and Spanish. Second edition features new structures for primary, intermediate, middle, and high school grades; alternative scheduling patterns; new mini lessons for training, problem solving, and book sharing; new assessment tools; ideas for using nonfiction texts; research on literature circles (correlation with increased achievement); and an explanation of how literature circles match with the national standards for literacy education. |
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B 93094B 93094 Magic School Bus Inside the Earth
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 32 Copyright: 2003
Presents tips and reproducible material for teaching the book by Joanna Cole in grades 3-5. Includes author details, comprehension and discussion questions, vocabulary builders, writing activiites, and graphic organizers. From the series Scholastic Book Guides. |
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B 93093B 93093 Magic School Bus Inside the Human Body
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 32 Copyright: 2003
Presents tips and reproducible materials for teaching Joanna Cole's "The Magic School Bus: Inside the Human Body" in grades 3-5. Includes author details, section summaries, comprehension and discussion questions, vocabulary builders, writing activities, and graphic organizers. From the series Scholastic Book Guides. |
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B 99624B 99624 Making Big Words, Grades 3-6
Grade Lvl: T Author: Cunningham, Patricia
Length: 146 Copyright: 1994
Subtitle: Multilevel, Hands-On Spelling and Phonics Activities. Provides word family/phonogram/spelling pattern instruction. Reproducible lessons. |
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B 99716B 99716 Making More Big Words, Grades 3-6
Grade Lvl: T Author: Cunningham, Patricia
Length: 224 Copyright: 1997
Subtitle: Multilevel, Hands-On Phonics and Spelling Activities. Sequel to Making Big Words has 150 reproducible lessons. Includes guidelines for creating lessons. |
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B 94808B 94808 Making Words, Fourth Grade
Grade Lvl: T Author: Cunningham, Patricia
Length: 86 Copyright: 2009
Subtitle: 50 Hands-On Lessons for Teaching Prefixes, Suffixes, and Roots by Patricia M. Cunningham and Dorothy P. Hall. Each lesson has three parts: making words using a spelling approach; sorting words according to related words and rhyming patterns; and finally by transferring what was learned to reading and spelling new words. A lesson includes 15-20 words including a secret word that can be made with all the letters. |
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B 90530B 90530 Mastering the Mechanics, Grades 4-5
Grade Lvl: T Author: Hoyt, Linda
Length: 192 Copyright: 2008
Contains lesson plans for fourth through fifth grade that teach the mechanics of writing and include suggestions for modeling, guided pracice and independent practice. Editing process; capitalization; punctuation; grammar; spelling; putting it all together lessons (students apply multiple skills as part of authentic writing). Offers templates including a "Skills I Can Use" sheet for students to use in charting their progress. Authors: Linda Hoyt and Teresa Therriault. |
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B 96509B 96509 Mechanically Inclined: Building Grammar, Usage, and Style into Writer's Workshop
Grade Lvl: T Author: Anderson, Jeff
Length: 216 Copyright: 2005
Places grammar theory in context with practical instruction strategies, explains why students often don't understand or apply grammar correctly, and demonstrates how to create a workshop environment that supports grammar and mechanics concepts. The author, a middle school teacher, discovered that his students were not grasping the basics, and that it was preventing them from reaching their potential as writers, so he began researching and testing the ideas of scores of grammar experts in his classroom, gradually finding successful ways of integrating grammar instruction into writer's workshop. |
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B 93480B 93480 Mental Models for English Language Arts, Gr 1-6
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 88 Copyright: 2007
Uses pictures, analogies, stories (cartoons, short stories, vignettes), and metaphors to help students translate information from the abstract to the concrete, learn abstract information more quickly and reatin it, understand a discipline or field of study and understand the purpose, structure or pattern of a body of knowledge. Includes conventions, writing, literature, sorting information, research, speech, listening skills. |
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B 93479B 93479 Mental Models for English Language Arts, Gr 6-12
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 99 Copyright: 2007
Uses pictures, analogies, stories (cartoons, short stories, vignettes), and metaphors to help students translate information from the abstract to the concrete, learn abstract information more quickly and retain it, understand a discipline or field of study and understand the purpose, structure or pattern of a body of knowledge. Chapters: Purpose of Language Arts; Strucures and Patterns of Language Arts; Figures of Speech and Word Patterns; Development of Thesis and Patterns of Written Text; Logic and Proof in Written and Oral Persuasion; Grammar, Word Meaning, Conventions of Writing; and Sorting. |
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B 90547B 90547 Mind Joggers!
Grade Lvl: T Author: Petreshene, Susan
Length: 207 Copyright: 1985
Subtitle: 5- to 15-Minute Activities that Make Kids Think. A collection of activities which take from five to fifteen minutes which are designed to help students improve their thinking and comprehension skills. Includes whole group, partner, and individual activities for elementary children organized into four major subject and skill areas: Thinking and Reasoning; Math; Language and Writing; and Listening and Remembering. All are oral activities or require only pencil and paper, or chalkboard and chalk. Brainstorming. |
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B 99740B 99740 Month-by-Month Phonics for Upper Grades: A Second Chance For Struggling Readers and Students Learning English
Grade Lvl: T Author: Cunningham, Patricia
Length: 158 Copyright: 1998
Explains how to help students become fluent decoders and spellers. |
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B 90429B 90429 More Frantic Frogs and Other Frankly Fractured Folktales for Readers Theatre
Grade Lvl: T Author: Fredericks, Anthony
Length: 151 Copyright: 2008
Contains more than twenty reproducible scripts of wacky folktales and fairy tales that will act as energizers for middle school language arts programs and includes suggestions for staging and a bibliography. Grades 4-8. |
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B 92997B 92997 More Novels and Plays (for Grades 6-12)
Grade Lvl: T Author: Worthington, Janet
Length: 223 Copyright: 2000
Subtitle: Thirty Creative Teaching Guides for Grades 6-12. Presents guides for teaching 30 novels to students in grades 6-12, each including a summary, appraisal, themes, literacy concepts, related reading, reading problems and opportunities, initiating activities, discussion questions, writing activities, other activities, and selected teaching resources. Titles: Bridge to Terabithia; Shiloh; Tuck Everlasting; Number the Stars; The Sign of the Beaver; Where the Lilies Bloom; Hatchet; The Cay; The Goats; The Pearl; Nothing but the Truth; The Contender; The Miracle Worker; The Moves Make the Man; The Outsiders; Great Expectations; Fahrenheit 451; Julius Caesar; The Chocolate War; The Red Badge of Courage; Fences; A Lesson Before Dying; Things Fall Apart; The Crucible; The Great Gatsby; Death of a Salesman; Their Eyes Were Watching God; Lord of the Flies; Hamlet; and Wuthering Heights. |
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B 94947B 94947 Multi-Grade Readers Theatre
Grade Lvl: T Author: Pfeffinger, Charla
Length: 223 Copyright: 2011
Subtitle: Stories About Short Story and Book Authors by Charla R. Pfeffinger and Suzanne I. Barchers. A collection of thirty-six readers theater scripts designed to be introduced, read, and discussed in thirty minutes, featuring characters with lines at a variety of reading levels (grades 2, 3, 4). |
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B 92007B 92007 Multiple Intelligences of Reading and Writing
Grade Lvl: T Author: Armstrong, Thomas
Length: 153 Copyright: 2003
Subtitle: Making the Words Come Alive. The first chapter summarizes the basics of multiple intelligences theory and provides an overview of the connections that reading and writing have with different areas of the brain. Subsequent chapters examine the relationship of reading and writing to the different intelligences within MI theory. Provides hundreds of strategies, tips, and resources to increase literacy in every grade level and ability group. |
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B 92516B 92516 Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Grades 3-4
Grade Lvl: T Author: Riley, Gail
Length: 128 Copyright: 2002
Reproducible pages with readings and activities designed to strengthen comprehension skills. Includes: compare and contrast; reading for details; picture clues; sequencing; classifying; table of contents; author's purpose; following directions; interpreting graphs; critical thinking; fact or opinion; inferencing; cause and effect; context clues; main idea and details; using timelines; reading for details; organizing information; interpreting maps; identifying genre; topic sentences; etc. |
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B 92515B 92515 Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Grades 5-6
Grade Lvl: T Author: Sneller, Norm
Length: 128 Copyright: 2002
Reproducible pages with readings and activities designed to improve nonfiction reading comprehension. Skills: word identification, determining cause and effect, learning to compare and contrast, following directions, building vocabulary skills, drawing conclusions, visualizing, finding the main idea, making and refining predictions, and learning to categorize. |
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B 96368B 96368 Nonfiction Writing Strategies Using Content-Area Mentor Texts
Grade Lvl: T Author: Freeman, Marcia
Length: 104 Copyright: 2014
Shows teachers how to use mentor texts in an integrative approach for teaching both content and informational writing. Book also includes a variety of expository techniques and advice on preparing writers for success on performance-based tests. Lists Capstone books used as mentor texts. Lessons are for K-4. |
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B 97060B 97060 Novel Approach: Whole-Class Novels, Student-Centered Teaching, and Choice
Grade Lvl: T Author: Roberts, Kate
Length: 184 Copyright: 2018
Dive into the troubles and triumphs of both whole-class novels and independent reading and arrive at a persuasive conclusion: we can find a student-centered, balanced approach to teaching reading. Offers a practical framework for creating units that join both teaching methods together and helps you: - Identify the skills your students need to learn - Choose whole-class texts that will be most relevant to your kids - Map out the timing of a unit and the strategies you'll teach - Meet individual needs while teaching whole novels - Guide students to choice books and book clubs that build on the skills being taught. |
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KM 10838KM 10838 Outspoken!
Grade Lvl: T Author: Halbrook, Sara
Length: 0 Copyright: 2006
Subtitle: How to Improve Writing and Speaking Skills Through Poetry Performance by Sara Holbrook and Michael Salinger. Contains lessons and exercises designed to help students improve their writing and speaking skills by performing poems, each with a stated objective, a procedure, notes on possible stumbling blocks, and extra credit possibilities. Performance poetry--study and teaching (elementary and secondary). Poetry slams. Contents: book and DVD (live student performances). Two-week loan period. |
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B 95493B 95493 Patriotic and Historical Plays for Young People
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 230 Copyright: 1987
Includes twenty-five one-act plays and programs that range from ten to twenty-five minutes in length, featuring George Washington, Molly Pitcher, Thomas Paine and other heroic figures of Revolutionary times. Full texts of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are included. |
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B 93082B 93082 Phantom Tollbooth
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 16 Copyright: 2003
Presents a study guide for grades six through nine for the book "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster. Includes book summary, author information, vocabulary builders, comprehension questions, discussion questions, and cross-curricular activities. From the Scholastic Book Guides. |
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B 92807B 92807 Philosophers to Astronauts Reader's Theater
Grade Lvl: T Author: Hults, Alaska
Length: 96 Copyright: 2004
Subtitle: Develop Reading Fluency and Text Comprehension Skills. Book has ten scripts for five to nine students (grades 3-4) with lessons (vocabulary, activities, fluency instruction, comprehension questions). Contents: Alexander Graham Bell; Maria Gaetana Agnesi; Thomas Edison; Carl Linnaeus; Charles Darwin; John Muir; Sir Alexander Fleming; Ernest Just; Albert Einstein; and Kalpana Chawla. Reproducible pages. |
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B 95811B 95811 Phonics They Use: Words for Reading and Writing (6th Edition)
Grade Lvl: T Author: Cunningham, Patricia
Length: 249 Copyright: 2013
Describes activities teachers may use to help children who are having difficulty reading and writing, with methods for learning to decode and spell regular and highly frequent irregular one-syllable words, and strategies for dealing with the special problems of poly-syllabic words. Part One: Building the Foundation for Phonics They Can Use. Part Two: Fluency. Part Three: Using Phonics and Spelling Patterns. Part Four: Research, and Terminology. Includes suggestions for adapting activities for English language learners and phonics interventions for older struggling readers. |
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KM 10282KM 10282 Poem a Day/Naming the World
Grade Lvl: T Author: Atwell, Nancie
Length: 0 Copyright: 2006
Contains two books and DVD. Naming the World: A Year of Poems and Lessons is a collection of more than 200 poems, accompanied by five-ten minute lessons for grades 6-9. A Poem a Day: A Guide to Naming the World explains how the author, Nancie Atwell, integrates poetry into her curriculum. The DVD shows her teaching seven poetry lessons and students talking with her about the poems. Two-week loan period. |
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B 95244B 95244 Poem for Every Day! (Grades 3-5)
Grade Lvl: T Author: Moger, Susan
Length: 128 Copyright: 2006
Contains 180 works by such poets as Emily Dickinson, Carl Sandburg, Walt Whitman, and Elinor Wylie that can be used to teach poetic forms and figurative language in grades three through five, and provides vocabulary definitions and an activity suggestion with each poem. Poetry Study and teaching. Children's poetry. Creative activities. |
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B 98892B 98892 Poetry Everywhere: Teaching Poetry Writing
Grade Lvl: T Author: Collom, Jack
Length: 252 Copyright: 1994
Subtitle: Teaching Poetry Writing In School and In the Community. Bulk of the book describes and illustrates more than 50 exercises: acrostics, chants, definition poems, question poems, sestinas, water poems, etc. Accompanying each exercise are explanatory remarks, variations, cross-references to other exercises, and sample student poems from virtually every grade level. Includes 11 explanatory essays by the authors on a variety of poetry- and teaching-related topics, such as using model poems, teaching sound and rhythm, and dealing with revision. |
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B 95405B 95405 Poetry Lessons to Meet the Common Core State Standards (K-5)
Grade Lvl: T Author: Heard, Georgia
Length: 128 Copyright: 2013
Contains lesson plans and activities, which are aligned with the Common Core State Standards, for teaching poetry in kindergarten through fifth grade, covering meaning, fluency, structure, figurative language, metaphor & simile, rhythm, choral reading, and more. |
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KM 10601KM 10601 Powerful Vocabulary for Reading Success Grade 6
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2004
Program to build vocabulary knowledge for sixth grade. Can be used as an independent program or as a supplement to the school's program. Each lesson takes about 15 minutes to complete. Four chapters: Context Clues; Words and Their Parts; Context Words; and Words and Their Histories. Contents: teacher's edition plus transparencies and student workbook. Two-week loan period. |
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B 92888B 92888 Practical Fluency: Classroom Perspectives Gr K-6
Grade Lvl: T Author: Brand, Max
Length: 118 Copyright: 2006
Provides whole-class, small group, and individual strategies for building reading and writing fluency. Includes 22 sample lessons adapted to both primary and intermediate grades; describes whole-class lessons and discussion; gives examples of how to differentiate fluency instruction; includes fluency prompts and assessment rubrics. Suggests how to maximize fluency instruction during transition periods, small-group instruction, and read-aloud sessions. |
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KM 11003KM 11003 Prescriptive English Basic Skills Program Book B
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2002
Comprehensive program that teaches and reviews basic langauge arts skills. Designed to support any language arts basal or to stand alone for independent review and reinforcement. Intervention program helps struggling students incorporate English language conventions into their writing. Includes 72 one page lessons. Every lesson focuses on one specific skill for each explicit instruction. Skills are organized into six units: Grammar; Usage; Mechanics; Vocabulary; Reference Skills; and Writing Structure. Contents: teacher's edition and workbook for grade 4. Two-week loan period. |
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B 95275B 95275 Presenting Reader's Theatre: Plays and Poems
Grade Lvl: T Author: Bauer, Caroline
Length: 250 Copyright: 1987
Complete title: Presenting Reader's Theatre: Plays and Poems to Read Aloud. Collection of short plays and poems for 7-12 year olds. Includes plays based on classic folktales, children's books, poetry, chants and songs. Scripts from works by Beverly Clearly, Rudyard Kipling, Betsy Byars, Arnold Lobel, A.A. Milne, Paul Fleischman, Jack Prelutsky, Bernard Waber, X.J. Kennedy, Julius Lester, Johanna Hurwitz, Hans Christian Andersen, and others. |
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B 94118B 94118 Quick & Easy Grammar Games to Boost Writing Power
Grade Lvl: T Author: DePino, Catherine
Length: 128 Copyright: 2006
Presents a collection of grammar games, activities, and lessons designed to develop writing, speaking, and listening skills, and contains reproducible, step-by-step instructions. Reproducible pages. |
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B 95410B 95410 Quick Cloze Passages for Boosting Comprehension, Grades 4-6
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 48 Copyright: 2012
On cover: 40 Leveled Cloze Passages That Give Students Practice in Using Context Clues to Build Vocabulary and Comprehension. Reproducible pages have fill-in-the-blank, fiction & nonfiction passages. Includes Flesch-Kincaid readability levels to help teachers choose passages that best meet students' needs. For fourth through sixth grades. Edited by Karen Baicker. |
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B 93352B 93352 Razzle Dazzle Writing: Achieving Excellence Through 50 Target Skills
Grade Lvl: T Author: Forney, Melissa
Length: 173 Copyright: 2001
Provides mini-lessons for teaching students in grade 3-8 how to put some pizzazz into their writing, covering such topics as strong and weak verbs, similes and metaphors, transitions, story action, personal narratives, expository writing, revising, editing, and assessment. Reproducible pages. |
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KM 13176KM 13176 Read & Respond Using Evidence Card Bank Gr. 3
Grade Lvl: PI Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2019
Third graders respond to high-interest fiction and nonfiction passages—using text evidence to make their point. Our ready-to-use activity cards prompt kids to read a short passage…then answer questions using evidence to support their responses. Each question promotes deeper comprehension by asking students to refer explicitly to the text, recount key details, explain main ideas and more. The kit includes 60 literature and informational text cards, and a guide. IL 2-4. |
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KM 13177KM 13177 Read & Respond Using Evidence Card Bank Gr. 4
Grade Lvl: PI Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2019
Fourth graders respond to high-interest fiction and nonfiction passages—using text evidence to prove their point! Our ready-to-use activity cards prompt kids to read a short passage…then answer questions using evidence to support their responses. Each question promotes deeper comprehension by asking students to refer explicitly to the text, recount key details, explain main ideas and more! You get 60 literature and informational text cards, a guide and a flip-top storage box with tabbed dividers. Develops skills in reading literature, reading informational text, key details, main idea, vocabulary, text features, inferences, text structure and writing. IL 3-5. |
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B 94038B 94038 Read! Perform! Learn! 2: 10 Reader's Theater Programs for Literacy Enhancement
Grade Lvl: T Author: Buzzeo, Toni
Length: 152 Copyright: 2007
Companion book to Read! Perform! Learn! (93417). Programs for grades K-5 are designed to improve literacy, with an introduction to the script, and interview with the author, the script for books, and standards-based learning activities. Book titles: Axle Annie and the Speed Grump; Bee-bim Bob!; The Boy Who Drew Birds; Button, Bucket, Sky; Even Firefighters Hug Their Moms; Faraway Home; Freedom Summer; Monsoon; My Brothers' Flying Machine; and Oliver's Must-Do List. |
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B 93417B 93417 Read! Perform! Learn!: 10 Reader's Theater
Grade Lvl: T Author: Buzzeo, Toni
Length: 128 Copyright: 2006
Subtitle: 10 Reader's Theater Programs for Literacy Enhancement. Offers library media specialists, children's librarians, and classroom teaches a wide range of ideas for extending the use of books into content areas through performance. Each of the ten chapters includes an introduction to a book and script, an author interview, the reader's theater script, and a set of standards based learning activities. Book titles: Book! Book! Book!; Chicken Soup by Heart; Dinosnores; Jingle Dancer; Mudball; Old Cricket; Rain Romp; The Recess Queen; School Picture Day; and Violet's Music. For grades K-5. |
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KM 12909KM 12909 Reader's Theater Script Box - Gr. 3-4
Grade Lvl: PI Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2017
Students build fluency—and develop a sense of pacing, intonation, expression with entertaining scripts that are engaging to read aloud. Kit includes 32 four-page scripts (4 copies of 8 plays). The scripts are designed for 4 readers at a time…and each copy has a different character’s lines highlighted—so it’s super-easy for students to follow along and read their parts! A great resource to encourage elementary students practice their reading aloud skills and dramatic play. IL 3-4. |
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KM 12910KM 12910 Reader's Theater Script Box - Gr. 5-6
Grade Lvl: I Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2018
Students build fluency—and develop a sense of pacing, intonation, expression and more—with entertaining scripts that are lots of fun to read aloud! You get a total of 32 four-page scripts (4 copies for each of 8 plays). The scripts are designed for 4 readers at a time…and each copy has a different character’s lines highlighted—so it’s super-easy for students to follow along and read their parts! IL 5-6. |
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B 90540B 90540 Readers on Stage: Resources for Reader's Theater
Grade Lvl: T Author: Shepard, Aaron
Length: 110 Copyright: 2004
Collection of resources for scripting, directing, and teaching reader's theater to ages 8 and up. Part 1 offers three sample scripts: Legend of Lighting Larry (tall tale for 22 or more readers, ages 7-12); Peddler Polly and the Story-Stealer (humorous fable for 13 or more readers, ages 9-12); The Baker's Dozen: A Saint Nicholas Tale (6 or more readers, ages 8-13). Part 2 has tips on scripting, staging and reading. Part 3 provides plans, notes, handouts, and worksheets from actual reader's theater workshops, ready for copying. Part 4 has listings of additional resources. |
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B 92988B 92988 Readers Theater for Building Fluency
Grade Lvl: T Author: Worthy, Jo
Length: 112 Copyright: 2005
Subtitle: Strategies and Scripts for Making the Most of This Highly Effective, Motivating, and Research-Based Approach to Oral Reading by Jo Worthy. Presents reproducible activity sheets for the third through sixth grade reading classroom that helps to develop students' comprehension, vocabulary, and writing skills. |
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B 91876B 91876 Readers Theatre for American History
Grade Lvl: T Author: Fredericks, Anthony
Length: 173 Copyright: 2001
Presents 24 readers theatre scripts that stimulate children to become active participants in selected historical events. For grades 4-8. Provides directions for staging, using props, delivery, and post presentations. Scripts are presented in five parts and cover the land and early people of North America to modern times. Readers theater. |
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B 92811B 92811 Readers Theatre for Beginning Readers Gr 1-4
Grade Lvl: T Author: Barchers, Suzanne
Length: 97 Copyright: 1993
Provides 24 scripts based on folktales and fables from around the world. Scripts are grouped into 1st, 2nd, or 3rd grade readability levels. Titles: Belling the Cat; Jack and the Beanstalk; The Lion and the Mouse; The Old Woman and Her Pig; The Three Billy Goats Gruff; The Three Little Pigs; The Tortoise and the Hare; The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse; Baba Yaga; The Bremen Town Musicians; Goldilocks and the Three Bears; The Half Chick; The Little Boy Who Went to the North Wind; Little Red Riding Hood; The Three Wishes; Tom Tit Tot; The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids; Cinderella; The Emperor's New Clothes; Henny Penny; Kumba and Kambili; The Peach Boy; The Tinderbox; and The Ugly Duckling. |
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B 90455B 90455 Readers Theatre for Middle School Boys
Grade Lvl: T Author: Black, Ann
Length: 190 Copyright: 2008
Subtitle: Investigating the Strange and Mysterious. Presents ten Readers Theatre scripts selected to engage middle school boys providing an introduction and production notes with each. Includes adaptations of Rats and Fools from The Pied Piper of Hamelin (Robert Browning); Adventure of the Speckled Band (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle); White Grizzly (Mary Peace Finley); Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; The Ransom of Red Chief (O. Henry); Sleepy Hollow (Washington Irving); The Monkey's Paw (W.W. Jacobs); To Light a Fire (Jack London); Masque of the Red Death (Edgar Allan Poe); The Country of the Blind (H.G. Wells). |
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B 97244B 97244 Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits
Grade Lvl: T Author: Miller, Donalyn / Kelley, Susan
Length: 273 Copyright: 2014
Reading in the Wild offers solid advice and strategies on how to develop, encourage, and assess five key reading habits that cultivate a lifelong love of reading. Miller offers strategies, lesson plans, management tools, and comprehensive lists of recommended books. Reading in the Wild offers a number of ideas for helping students build capacity for a lifetime of "wild" reading. |
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B 97224B 97224 Red Hot Root Words: Mastering Vocabulary with Prefixes, Suffixes and Root Words Grades 3-5
Grade Lvl: T Author: Draze, Dianne
Length: 120 Copyright: 2005
Students will deepen their understanding of the English language and expand their vocabulary through forty-one lessons. Each lesson is formatted with either a prefix(es), suffix(es), or root word(s) complete with the meaning and some sample words. New words built around these concepts follow, with definitions of each and a sample sentence that uses the word in context. Students are then asked to complete a practice section. These exercises vary in construct, including fill-in-the-blank, matching, identifying synonyms and antonyms, identifying the best context for the word, and more. Following every second lesson is a review page that tests students on the concepts and words they learned in the previous two lessons. Book 1 in series. Intended for use with students in grades 3-5. |
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KM 11151KM 11151 REWARDS Writing: Sentence Refinement
Grade Lvl: IJST Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2008
First module of the REWARDS Writing Program for intermediate and secondary students. Supplementary set of 75 mini-lessons (20-30 minutes). Contents: teacher's guide, student book, book of blackline masters, and poster (Strategy for Editing Paragraphs). Two-week loan period. |
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B 93091B 93091 Rosa Parks: My Story
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 32 Copyright: 2003
Presents tips and reproducible materials for teaching "Rosa Parks: My Story" in grades 3-5. Includes author details, summaries, discussion questions, and activities. From the series Scholastic Book Guides. |
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B 93085B 93085 Sarah, Plain and Tall
Grade Lvl: T Author: Beech, Linda
Length: 16 Copyright: 2003
Presents tips and reproducible materials for teaching Patricia MacLachlan's "Sarah, Plain and Tall" in grades three through four. Includes author details and section-by-section summaries, discussion questions, and cross-curricular activities. From the series Scholastic Book Guides. |
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B 93380B 93380 Science Fiction Readers Theatre
Grade Lvl: T Author: Fredericks, Anthony
Length: 148 Copyright: 2002
Presents 20 readers theater scripts on scientific principles and possibilities, which cast students in grades 4-8 in the roles of explorers, discoverers, scientists, and aliens. Includes activity ideas and learning extensions. |
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KM 11900KM 11900 Showtime! Reading - Grade 5
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2012
Voyager's Showtime! Reading program is a skill and strategy building program for students in grades 3–8 that connects instruction to the Common Core State Standards. Prepares students to demonstrate reading content knowledge on high-stakes assessments. Test preparation. Program provides explicit instruction and is designed to be delivered in daily 20-30 minute lessons. There are three types of lessons: comprehension strategy/ skill lessons; test-taking strategy instruction & practice lessons; constructed response instruction and practice lessons. Kit contains Teacher Edition and student text for grade 5. |
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KM 11901KM 11901 Showtime! Reading - Grade 6
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2012
Voyager's Showtime! Reading program is a skill and strategy building program for students in grades 3–8 that connects instruction to the Common Core State Standards. Prepares students to demonstrate reading content knowledge on high-stakes assessments. Test preparation. Program provides explicit instruction and is designed to be delivered in daily 20-30 minute lessons. There are three types of lessons: comprehension strategy/ skill lessons; test-taking strategy instruction & practice lessons; constructed response instruction and practice lessons. Kit contains Teacher Edition and student text for grade 6. |
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B 92808B 92808 Silly Salamanders and Other Slightly Stupid Stuff for Readers Theatre
Grade Lvl: T Author: Fredericks, Anthony
Length: 159 Copyright: 2000
Presents more than 30 classroom-reading scripts for students in grades 3-8, including parodies of popular fairy tales and other humorous stories. Factured fairy tales and twisted legends. Reproducible pages. |
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B 94004B 94004 Spaces & Places: Designing Classroom for Literacy
Grade Lvl: T Author: Diller, Debbie
Length: 229 Copyright: 2008
Provides before-and-after photographs, along with step-by-step instructions on organizing preschool through fifth grade classrooms, and covers furniture placement, wall space, and other related topics; and also provides time-saving advice on packing at the end of the school year. |
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B 96810B 96810 Speech to Print Workbook: Language Exercises for Teachers, Second Edition
Grade Lvl: T Author: Moats, Louisa
Length: 272 Copyright: 2011
A workbook companion to the "Speech to Print" textbook (96809), designed to help teachers practice and strengthen their language skills. Helps elementary educators grasp the structure of written and spoken English, understand how children learn to read, and apply this foundational knowledge as they deliver explicit, high-quality literacy instruction. |
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B 96809B 96809 Speech to Print: Language Essentials for Teachers, Second Edition
Grade Lvl: T Author: Moats, Louisa
Length: 304 Copyright: 2010
Offers elementary language arts teachers information, tips, instructional strategies, and sample lessons to help them improve their knowledge and teaching skills and identify new ways to reach their students. |
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B 98472B 98472 Stories on Stage: Scripts for Reader's Theater
Grade Lvl: T Author: Shepard, Aaron
Length: 162 Copyright: 1993
A collection of 22 plays adapted from folk tales, short stories, myths, and novels and intended for use in reader's theater programs with middle grade and junior high school students. Reader's theatre. |
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B 92531B 92531 Story Elements Grades 3-4
Grade Lvl: T Author: Wheeler, Kathryn
Length: 48 Copyright: 2001
Subtitle: Learning About the Components of Stories to Deepen Comprehension. Reproducible pages with reading selections and exercises designed to help students identify and discuss the characters, their actions, the setting, the plot, and other literary elements. |
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B 96166B 96166 Study Skills 1
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 100 Copyright: 1999
Study skills activities for struggling students in grades 6-12. RL 3-4. Includes time management, textbooks, scanning, library skills, reference books, following directions, note-taking, context clues, word meaning, test preparation, graphics, maps, etc. |
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B 92528B 92528 Summarizing Grades 3-4
Grade Lvl: T Author: Karwowski, Cindy
Length: 48 Copyright: 2001
Subtitle: Focusing on Main Ideas and Details and Restating in Concise Form. Reproducible pages with guided activities designed to help students discuss, examine, choose, and write their own summaries. Provides practice using active verbs, and colorful nouns in their work. Uses a variety of instructional formats such as original poetry, stories, maps, and nonfiction selections. Summarization. |
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B 94085B 94085 Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Retelling: Skills for Better Reading, Writing, and Test Taking
Grade Lvl: T Author: Kissner, Emily
Length: 148 Copyright: 2006
Guide to teaching students the importance of summarization that breaks the skill down into smaller, more manageable tasks that can help students improve their reading comprehension, writing, and test-taking skills. |
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B 91777B 91777 Supporting Struggling Readers and Writers: Strategies For Classroom Intervention 3-6
Grade Lvl: T Author: Strickland, Dorothy
Length: 250 Copyright: 2002
Provides educators with the best research-based practice on the literacy learning and teaching of low-achieving intermediate students. Authors Dorothy S. Strickland, Kathy Ganske, and Joanne K. Monroe explore the factors that contribute to success and failure in literacy and provide systematic and ongoing approaches for helping students who are most at risk. Includes a "Strategy Bank" of step-by-step practices. |
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B 93090B 93090 Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 16 Copyright: 2003
Presents a guide to studying "Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt" by Deborah Hopkinson for grades 3-5. Includes book summary, author information, vocabulary builders, questions and activities. From the series Scholastic Book Guides. |
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B 94874B 94874 Teacher's Big Book of Graphic Organizers: 100 Reproducible Organizers that Help Kids with Reading, Writing, and the Content Areas, Gr 5-12
Grade Lvl: T Author: McKnight, Katherine
Length: 214 Copyright: 2010
Contains reproducible graphic organizers that are designed to help develop the reading, writing, and content areas skills of fifth- through twelfth-grade students and promote active learning. |
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B 92882B 92882 Teaching 10 Fabulous Forms of Poetry
Grade Lvl: T Author: Janeczko, Paul
Length: 96 Copyright: 2000
Contains projects designed to help readers learn about ten differentforms of poetry. Lessons, brainstorming sheets, and organizers for writing acrostics, cinquains, clerihews, limericks, haiku, senryu, tankas, blues poems, The ballad, concrete poems, and a bonus lesson on Found poems. For grades 4-8. |
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B 93356B 93356 Teaching Literacy in Fifth Grade
Grade Lvl: T Author: McMahon, Susan
Length: 150 Copyright: 2007
Presents innovative practical strategies for creating an organized, motivating, and literacy-rich fifth grade classroom. Shows how to asess student needs and implement standards-based instruction that targets comprehension, vocabulary, writing, genre study, and other crucial areas. Includes helpful planning tips, illustrations, and reproducibles. Authors: Susan I. McMahon and Jacqueline Wells. From the series Tools for Teaching Literacy. |
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B 92137B 92137 Teaching Vocabulary in All Classrooms (2nd Ed)
Grade Lvl: T Author: Blachowicz, Camille
Length: 253 Copyright: 2002
Provides ideas and strategies for developing vocabulary in any K-12 classroom in all content areas. Has websites for vocabulary exploration. Also discusses vocabulary instruction for learners with special needs. |
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B 98275B 98275 Teaching Vocabulary to Improve Read Comprehension
Grade Lvl: T Author: Nagy, William
Length: 42 Copyright: 1988
Describes the three methods of vocabulary instruction that most effective improve comprehension--integration, repetition, and meaningful use of the new words--and the teaching methods that employ them. |
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B 92702B 92702 Teaching Writing Through Differentiated Instruction With Leveled Graphic Organizers
Grade Lvl: T Author: Witherell, Nancy
Length: 112 Copyright: 2005
For grades 4-8. Authors Nancy L. Witherell and Mary C. McMackin provide seventeen writing lessons that include a skill focus, a model lesson and writing sample, and reproducible organizers designed to support individual learning needs at three levels: introductory, intermediate, and challenging. Provides literature links, student samples, and teaching tips. Writing skills covered: building paragraphs; describing and enumerating; persuading; comparing and contrasting; explaining "how to;" writing dialogue; crafting plots; developing characters; using figurative language; and more. Includes nonfiction writing, narrative and memoir writing, book reports, newspaper articles, and letters. |
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B 95183B 95183 Text Complexity: Raising Rigor in Reading
Grade Lvl: T Author: Frey, Nancy / Lapp, Diane
Length: 140 Copyright: 2012
Focuses on the quantitative and qualitative factors of text complexity as well as the ways in which readers can be matched with texts and tasks. It also examines how close readings of complex texts scaffold students understanding and allow them to develop the skills necessary to read like a detective. |
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KM 10766KM 10766 Think-Alongs Level E--Comprehending
Grade Lvl: T Author: Farr, Roger
Length: 0 Copyright: 2000
The Think-Alongs: Comprehending As You Read series is designed to provide opportunities for students to: Think and comprehend as they read; Learn the reading strategies needed to become more effective comprehenders; Practice effective reading strategies with a variety of texts; Construct meaning as they read; Become more effective in their use of metacognitive reading strategies; Connect what they know to what is being read; Develop techniques that promote more effective reading; Write while reading, thus encouraging them to think about the text; Discuss the story and internalize unfamiliar vocabulary; Learn to use ideas developed while reading to write more effectively; and Practice thinking strategies that can be used to improve reading comprehension test-taking skills. Level E is for 5th grade. Contents: teacher's edition and workbook. Two-week loan period. |
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B 95972B 95972 Thinking Activities for Books Children Love
Grade Lvl: T Author: Mohr, Carolyn
Length: 175 Copyright: 1988
Activities to use with 15 popular children's stories such as Blume's Superfudge and Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, The Incredible Journey by Burnford, Pinballs by Byars, Mouse and the Motorcycle by Cleary and more. |
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B 95451B 95451 Thrice Told Tales: Three Mice Full of Writing Advice
Grade Lvl: IJST Author: Lewis, Catherine
Length: 136 Copyright: 2013
Uses the "Three Blind Mice" nursery rhyme to illustrate key elements of writing and literature, including plot, mechanics, foreshadowing, point of view, character, style, and dialogue. Resource guide introduces a multitude of literary elements/terms aimed at teachers & budding student writers. Literature -- Terminology. Authorship. |
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B 92857B 92857 Trait-Based Mini-Lessons for Teaching Writing Grades 2-4
Grade Lvl: T Author: Sloan, Megan S.
Length: 128 Copyright: 2005
Presents a collection of twenty-five reproducible writing lessons for the second to fourth-grade classroom that helps to develop sentence fluency, organization, and various other stages of the writing process. 6 +1 Traits/Six plus one traits. |
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KM 11233KM 11233 Traits of Writing: Complete Guide/Middle School
Grade Lvl: T Author: Culham, Ruth
Length: 0 Copyright: 2010
Offers guidance and materials for middle school teachers to better assess the writing skills of sixth through eighth grade students, providing scoring guides, sample papers with scores and comments. Provides warm-up exercises and lessons to encourage focus. Contents: book and CD-ROM with reproducibles. Two-week loan period. |
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B 97598B 97598 UFLI Foundations
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 372 Copyright: 2022
Subtitle: An Explicit and Systematic Phonics Program. The UFLI Foundations manual is full of detailed, easy-to-follow lesson plans that include everything you need to implement each and every step. The lessons align with our continuous scope and sequence, designed to ensure that students systematically acquire each skill needed and learn to apply each skill with automaticity and confidence. The manual offers, essential background knowledge for teachers, 10 getting ready lessons, 128 concept lessons and 10 review lessons, concept-based spelling assessments to use for progress monitoring and detailed descriptions of each step and how to implement. |
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KM 11825KM 11825 Units of Study in Opinion, Information, and Narrative Writing, Grade 4
Grade Lvl: T Author: Calkins, Lucy
Length: 0 Copyright: 2013
Unit from the Reading and Writing Project offers writing workshop plans to help fourth grade students meet the Common Core State Standards. Components(11 books & CD-ROM): A Guide to the Common Core Writing Workshop, Intermediate Grades; The Arc of Story; Boxes and Bullets; Bringing History to Life; The Literary Essay; If...Then...Curriculum; Writing Pathways Grades K-5; Trade Book Pack (Fireflies!; Pecan Pie Baby; The Revolutionary War; Fox) and Resources for Teaching Writing CD-ROM. Three-week loan period. |
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B 95786B 95786 Unlocking Literacy: Effective Decoding and Spelling Instruction, Second Edition
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 326 Copyright: 2010
Presents strategies to help students improve literacy skills with a focus on decoding and spelling; providing a review of the history and structure of English words; discussing reading fundamentals and lesson concepts, format, and procedures; and including forty-six classroom activities, lesson plans, samples of student work, and additional resources. |
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KM 12348KM 12348 Up & Running with the Daily 5
Grade Lvl: T Author: Boushey, Gail / Moser, Joan
Length: 106 Copyright: 2015
DVD shows Gail and Joan as they work with third- and fifth-grade teachers in two diverse Midwest classrooms where the Daily 5 has been in place for several years. As the popularity of the Daily 5 has grown, more and more students have developed experience with it; teachers now have to decide how best to build upon students' familiarity with the Daily 5 structure while addressing new content and learning objectives. Emphasizes the importance of starting the 10 Steps to Independence at the beginning of each year, highlights the 2 Sisters' newest thinking and learning, differentiates the Daily 5 tasks and structure, models support strategies with at-risk students, demonstrates brain-compatible lessons, and introduces and builds the link to Math Daily 3. Kit includes guide. |
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B 94647B 94647 Using Mentor Texts to Teach Writing with the Traits Middle School
Grade Lvl: T Author: Culham, Ruth / Blasingame, James
Length: 128 Copyright: 2010
Authors have chosen 150 picture books, chapter books, and young adult novels, annotated them, and categorized them by trait. Includes 21 step-by-step, trait-focused lessons based on passages from the selected books. |
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B 94260B 94260 Using Picture Storybooks to Teach Literary Devices. Volume 4: Recommended Books for Children and Young Adults
Grade Lvl: T Author: Hall, Susan
Length: 282 Copyright: 2008
Provides strategies for teachers and librarians on using picture books to teach literary devices to kindergarten through twelfth grade students; providing a summary of forty books, describing the devices they reinforce, and including curriculum tie-ins for each selection. Some of the 43 devices include: allusion, antithesis, connotation, foreshadow, hyperbole, inference, irony, motif, paradox, parallelismpoint-of-view, pun, simile, solecism, theme, tone, and understatement. |
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KM 10368KM 10368 Using Six Trait Mini-Lessons to Strengthen/Writing
Grade Lvl: T Author: Murphy, Diane
Length: 0 Copyright: 2008
Complete title: Using Six Trait Mini-Lessons to Strength Your Students' Writing, Grades 3-6. Training program designed to help intermediate grade teachers present specific mini-lessons for increasing students' writing skills. Trainer Diane Murphy and classroom teachers demonstrate how to implement lessons for each of the traits. Ideas (7 minutes), Organization (12 minutes), Word Choice (11 minutes), Voice (12 minutes), Sentence Fluency (9 minutes), and Conventions (11 minutes). Includes a resource guide. Two-week loan period. |
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B 96068B 96068 Vocabulary Works, Level A
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 112 Copyright: 1995
Vocabulary workbook for grades 2-4. |
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B 96069B 96069 Vocabulary Works, Level B
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 112 Copyright: 1995
Vocabulary workbook for grades 3-5. |
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B 96070B 96070 Vocabulary Works, Level C
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 112 Copyright: 1995
Vocabulary workbook for grades 4-6. |
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B 96071B 96071 Vocabulary Works, Level D
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 112 Copyright: 1995
Vocabulary workbook for grades 5-7. |
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B 96072B 96072 Vocabulary Works, Level E
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 112 Copyright: 1995
Vocabulary workbook for grades 6-8. |
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B 96073B 96073 Vocabulary Works, Level F
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 112 Copyright: 1995
Vocabulary workbook for grades 6-8. |
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B 92959B 92959 Vocabulary-Enriched Classroom: Practices for Improving the Reading Performance of All Students in Grades 3 and Up
Grade Lvl: T Author: Block, Cathy Collins / Mangieri, John N.
Length: 224 Copyright: 2006
Contains a collection of research-based strategies for word recognition, comprehension, and other areas of literacy designed for students in grades three and up. |
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B 93095B 93095 Weather Words and What They Mean
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 24 Copyright: 2003
Presents a guide to using the book "Weather Words and What They Mean" by Gail Gibbons in grades 3-5. Includes book summary, author profile, vocabulary builders, discussion questions, activities and teaching ideas. Reproducible pages. From the series Scholastic Book Guides. |
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B 96564B 96564 What Really Matters for Middle School Readers: From Research to Practice
Grade Lvl: T Author: Allington, Richard
Length: 230 Copyright: 2015
Looks at the areas that struggling adolescents find most difficult—meaning, vocabulary, (especially for academic words), and inferential comprehension—and focuses on ways to foster accelerated growth. Dr. Allington stresses that through expanding the volume of high-success reading that students experience each day, as well as through the wide variety of additional classroom strategies and methodologies included in the text, middle school students can achieve a working literacy proficiency. |
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B 95005B 95005 What Really Matters in Writing
Grade Lvl: T Author: Cunningham, Patricia
Length: 228 Copyright: 2010
Subtitle: Research-Based Practices Across the Elementary Curriculum by Patricia M. Cunningham and James W. Cunningham. Explains how to get students started writing and what to do once they are. Dedicated chapters for spelling, editing, and revising help teachers introduce these skills as critical parts of the writing process. Explains how to extend writing, editing, and revising across the curricuulum, to bring the benefits of writing and critical thinking to all content areas. Includes examples, sample lessons, and activities. |
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B 92883B 92883 When Writing Workshop Isn't Working, Gr. 2-5
Grade Lvl: T Author: Overmeyer, Mark
Length: 152 Copyright: 2005
Subtitle: Answers to Ten Tough Questions, Grades 2-5. Provides practical advice for overcoming common problems associated with teaching writing to students, and offers help in developing vocabulary skills, preparing students for standardized tests (Test preparation) & more. Appendix: Memoir & narrative writing support; descriptive writing rubric; Four point generic writing rubric. |
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B 95207B 95207 Word Nerds: Teaching All Students to Learn and Love Vocabulary
Grade Lvl: T Author: Overturf, Brenda / Montgomery, Leslie
Length: 176 Copyright: 2013
Shows how two teachers at a high-poverty urban school implement creative, flexible vocabulary instruction that improves their students' word knowledge and confidence, enhances classroom community, and increases achievement. Leslie Montgomery and Margot Holmes Smith weave vocabulary into each school day using multisensory instruction that includes music, art, literature, movement, games, drama, writing, test-taking skills, and technology. Grades K-6. |
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B 97176B 97176 Word Study That Sticks: Best Practices, K-6
Grade Lvl: T Author: Koutrakos, Pamela A
Length: 263 Copyright: 2019
Hungry for lively and engaging ways to augment word study? This hands-on guide to word study instruction connects research with experience to make word learning fun. With the goal of instilling curiosity and a self-starting attitude in students, Word Study That Sticks delivers challenging, discovery-based instructional practices that support all learners in any subject area. Lesson ideas, routines, key practices, and special advice for beginning teachers make word study instruction accessible for educators working at every experience level. Professional book. |
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B 95890B 95890 Words Their Way with English Learners: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling (2nd Edition)
Grade Lvl: T Author: Helman, Lori.
Length: 364 Copyright: 2012
Provides guidance and activities for using word study to teach phonics, vocabulary, and spelling to the young English learners in one's classroom, covering each stage from emergent to derivational relations as well as classroom organization and assessment and including examples of students' work. Appendix consists of eight sections: Assessment Materials (Primary Spelling, Elementary Spelling, & Picture Spelling Inventories); Sound Boards & Alphabets; Pictures for Sorts & Games; Sample Picture & Word Sorts; Word Lists of Pictures in Book with Translations (English, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Hmong, Korean, Vietnamese); Templates for Sorts & Games; Game Boards; Media Guide. Has reproducible pages. |
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B 96380B 96380 Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Syllables and Affixes Spellers (2nd Edition)
Grade Lvl: T Author: Johnston, Francine / Invernizzi, Marcia
Length: 137 Copyright: 2009
Contains reproducible pages of word sorts and instructional strategies aimed at helping students excel in the syllables and affixes stages of spelling; and includes teacher's notes and assessments. Orthography & spelling. Suffixes & prefixes. Syllabication. Grades 3-8. |
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B 96381B 96381 Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Derivational Relations Spellers, 2nd Edition
Grade Lvl: T Author: Templeton, Shane / Johnston, Francine
Length: 164 Copyright: 2009
Contains reproducible pages of word sorts and instructional strategies aimed at helping students excel in the derivational relations stage of spelling; and includes teacher's notes and assessments. English language Spelling Problems, exercises, etc. Orthography. Etymology. Grades 5-12. |
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B 96437B 96437 Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction, 6th Edition
Grade Lvl: T Author: Bear, Donald R. / Invernizzi, Marcia
Length: 438 Copyright: 2015
Hands-on, developmentally-driven approach to word study that illustrates how to integrate and teach children phonics, vocabulary, and spelling skills. Common Core State Standards are listed for each activity. |
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KM 11345KM 11345 Words Their Way: Word Study in Action D
Grade Lvl: T Author: Bear, Donald
Length: 0 Copyright: 2006
This is a curriculum preview kit only - does not include the Teacher Resource CD and "Words Their Way" Library, those can be purchased from - www.pearsonschool.com.It contains ready-to-use support material for Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction. Contents: teacher resource guide (lesson plans, explanation of how to use the program, and tips for progress monitoring and classroom management) and word study notebook (student workbook with a lesson for each sort). D is Grade 4. Two-week loan period. |
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KM 11346KM 11346 Words Their Way: Word Study in Action E
Grade Lvl: T Author: Bear, Donald
Length: 0 Copyright: 2006
This is a curriculum preview kit only - does not include the Teacher Resource CD and "Words Their Way" Library, those can be purchased from - www.pearsonschool.com.It contains ready-to-use support material for Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction. Contents: teacher resource guide (lesson plans, explanation of how to use the program, and tips for progress monitoring and classroom management) and word study notebook (student workbook with a lesson for each sort). E is Grade 5. Two-week loan period. |
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B 95202B 95202 Write Like This: Teaching Real-World Writing Through Modeling and Mentor Texts
Grade Lvl: T Author: Gallagher, Kelly
Length: 264 Copyright: 2011
Shows teachers how to bring effective modeling practices into their classrooms, and provides mentor texts, student writing samples, and numerous assignments and strategies designed to elevate student writing. |
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B 93005B 93005 Writing Poetry with Children
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 96 Copyright: 1999
A step-by-step guide for teaching students to write couplets, cinquain, haiku, limericks, shape poems, and acrostic poems. Includes reproducible instructions and illustrated writing forms. Provides a bibliography of poetry books, a list of poetry terms, and ideas for sharing poetry. Grades 1-6. |
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B 97145B 97145 Writing Strategies Book: Your Everything Guide to Developing Skilled Writers
Grade Lvl: T Author: Serravallo, Jennifer
Length: 410 Copyright: 2017
300 of the most effective strategies to share with writers, and grouping them beneath 10 crucial goals. The text supports developing skilled writers by: •supporting and developing individual goals for every writer •give students step-by-step strategies for writing with skill and craft •coach writers using prompts aligned to a strategy •present mentor texts that support a genre and strategy •adjust instruction to meet individual needs with Jen's Teaching Tips •demonstrate and explain a writing move with her Lesson Language •learn more with Hat Tips to the work of influential teacher-authors. •suggestions for stocking your writing center, planning units of study, celebrating student writing, and keeping records. Whether you use Writing Workshop, 6+1 Traits, Daily 5's "Work on Writing," a scripted writing program, the writing exercises in your basal, or any other approach, you'll discover a treasure chest of ways to work with whole classes, small groups, or individual writers. Designed for the K-8 classroom. |
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B 95889B 95889 Writing Strategies for the Common Core: Integrating Reading Comprehension into the Writing Process, Grades 6-8
Grade Lvl: T Author: Wolfe, Hillary
Length: 0 Copyright: 2013
Provides core instruction, teaching strategies, and mini-lessons for teaching middle school students to write informational, argument, and narrative texts and respond to literature. Includes test prep mini-lessons. |
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B 92640B 92640 Writing to Prompts/Trait-Based/Literature Response
Grade Lvl: T Author: Culham, Ruth
Length: 80 Copyright: 2003
Complete title: Writing to Prompts in the Trait-Based Classroom Literature Response. Contains writing prompts for more than 45 best-loved books, organized by realistic fiction, historical fiction, and fantasy fiction. Includes guidelines for using R.A.F.T.S. prompts (a role, audience, format, topic, and strong verb). Then students use the 6+1 writing traits (six plus one): ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions, and presentation to generate finely crafted writing. Includes prompts for Dear Mr. Henshaw; Hatchet; Holes; How to Eat Fried Worms; The Outsiders; Across Five Aprils; Bud, Not Buddy; Number the Stars; Indian in the Cupboard; Phantom Tollbooth; Tuck Everlasting; Walk Two Moons; etc. For grades 3 and up. |
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