Marvelous Minilessons for Teaching Nonfiction Writing K–3

2015-12-11
Marvelous Minilessons for Teaching Nonfiction Writing K–3

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  • Author: Lori Jamison Rog
  • Publisher: Pembroke Publishers Limited
  • ISBN: 155138907X
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 114

Today’s young learners know more about their world than ever before. This remarkable book shows that even our youngest writers can consider audience and purpose as they use nonfiction writing to document their ideas and share those ideas with others. But if students are going to be able to use writing to learn, they must have opportunities for learning to write. That’s what this book is for. A wealth of hands-on minilessons offer strategies for writing informational, persuasive, and procedural text. Each lesson starts with a learning goal and follows an “I do, we do, you do” format. Teachers will find a wealth of ideas for guiding young students to write about what they know and care about.

Marvelous Minilessons for Teaching Intermediate Writing Grades 3–8

2018-02-15
Marvelous Minilessons for Teaching Intermediate Writing Grades 3–8

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  • Author: Lori Jamison Rog
  • Publisher: Pembroke Publishers Limited
  • ISBN: 1551389304
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 143

This timely book offers a host of minilessons that focus on comprehensive written communication as one of the essential skills for success. These fresh minilessons explore how to help students go beyond fuzzy thinking and generic voice, and organize their thoughts, solve problems, identify key ideas, and reflect on different perspectives. The book argues that writing is important to help students communicate ideas to others, as well as document their own thoughts. This buffet of minilessons gives teachers ideas to add to their teaching repertoire so they can help their students' work shine a little brighter.

Powerful Writing Structures

2020-02-06
Powerful Writing Structures

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  • Author: Adrienne Gear
  • Publisher: Pembroke Publishers Limited
  • ISBN: 1551389436
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 199

This timely book uses thinking structures to deepen student writing. It revolves around “brain pockets” to help students appreciate the qualities of different writing forms. Some powerful examples include memory pockets for personal narrative writing, fact pockets for nonfiction, and imagination pockets for story writing. Detailed lesson plans are featured along with sample anchor books and book lists. Based on extensive classroom testing, student samples throughout the book illustrate this unique approach to teaching writing. Suggestions for setting up an effective writing program and assessment tips for guiding instruction complete this comprehensive approach to developing a year-long writing program.

How Do I Get Them to Write?

2017-05-15
How Do I Get Them to Write?

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  • Author: Karen Filewych
  • Publisher: Pembroke Publishers Limited
  • ISBN: 1551389231
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 162

This remarkable book shows teachers how to inspire students to learn to write and write to learn. Committed to the premise that all students can learn to write with appropriate teaching, modelling, and practice, it argues that reading and writing go hand in hand. Through reading, writing and the inevitable discussions that follow, students learn from the experiences of others, open their minds to many possibilities, gain a glimpse into new worlds, make connections to their lives, and reflect on their own choices and learning. This practical book shows you how to use freewriting and powerful mentor texts to create classrooms where students enjoy putting pencil to paper and taking the necessary risks to grow and flourish as writers.

Reading, Writing, Playing, Learning

2017-01-12
Reading, Writing, Playing, Learning

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  • Author: Lori Jamison Rog
  • Publisher: Pembroke Publishers Limited
  • ISBN: 1551389223
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 106

This practical handbook shows teachers how to nurture a kindergarten learning environment in which children feel safe, comfortable, and able to take risks. It offers innovative ways to encourage children to explore, experiment, discover, solve problems, and freely interact with one another. Based on extensive classroom practice, it demonstrates when teachers need to provide support, ask questions, and provoke thinking, and when they should step back and give children room to explore on their own. This remarkable book offers concrete suggestions for creating play-based learning in a culture of inquiry. It is committed to creating classrooms where children can learn and grow while they play.

Writing Instruction and Assessment for English Language Learners K-8

2010-04-23
Writing Instruction and Assessment for English Language Learners K-8

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  • Author: Susan Davis Lenski
  • Publisher: Guilford Press
  • ISBN: 1606236660
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 193

Many English language learners (ELLs) require extra support to become successful writers. This book helps teachers understand the unique needs of ELLs and promote their achievement by adapting the effective instructional methods they already know. Engaging and accessible, the book features standards-based lesson planning ideas, examples of student work, and 15 reproducible worksheets, rubrics, and other useful materials. It describes ways to combine instruction in core skills with ample opportunities to write and revise in different genres. Invaluable guidance is provided for assessing ELLs' writing development at different grade levels and language proficiency levels. This book will be valuable for teachers in general education and ESL classrooms; literacy specialists and coaches; graduate students in literacy and ESL programs. It will also serve as a text in graduate-level courses such as Writing Instruction, Teaching English Language Learners, and Teaching English as a Second Language.

Striking a Balance

2017-05-12
Striking a Balance

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  • Author: Nancy L. Cecil
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 1351812947
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 481

Striking a Balance explores a comprehensive program of early literacy instruction through a balanced approach to reading and writing for both enjoyment and information. The fifth edition retains the special features that adopters have come to appreciate: classroom vignettes, discussion questions, field-based activities, a student website, and study guide. This latest edition offers expanded content on differentiating instruction for diverse learners, including working with English Language Learners and students with special needs. Also new to this edition is greater coverage on integrating state standards with early literacy instruction. The book’s practical approach fundamentally demonstrates how children develop authentic literacy skills through a combination of direct strategy instruction and motivating contexts.

Guiding Readers

2012
Guiding Readers

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  • Author: Lori Jamison Rog
  • Publisher: Pembroke Publishers Limited
  • ISBN: 1551382733
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 170

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

Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency

2006
Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency

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  • Author: Irene C. Fountas
  • Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 612

A practical guide for teaching comprehension and fluency in the kindergarten through eighth-grade classroom with instruction on reading levels, writing about reading, and interactive read-aloud and literature study; and contains a DVD with over 100 blackline masters, forms, and checklists.

Book Markets for Children's Writers, 2006

2007
Book Markets for Children's Writers, 2006

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  • ISBN: 9781889715360
  • Category : Book industries and trade
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 612

"Feature articles on markets for humor, middle-grade biographies, YA novels, activity books, PreK nonfiction"--Cover.