Download or read book Fluent Writing written by Denise Leograndis and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you puzzled by "pacing"? According to the NCEE standards, as well as some state standards, it's an essential writing skill. But what is pacing? And how do you teach it? Denise Leograndis has the answers to those questions, and in Fluent Writing she shares with you how this seemingly new area of instruction offers a breakthrough opportunity to improve your students' writing.
Download or read book Writing Lab written by Nancy Atlee and published by PRUFROCK PRESS INC.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educational title for gifted and advanced learners.
Download or read book Practical Fluency written by Max Brand and published by Stenhouse Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All teachers know helping students become fluent in reading and writing involves more than measuring reading rates. Max and Gayle Brand have worked together with students and colleagues over many years to discover the most effective whole-class, small-group, and individual strategies and activities for building both reading and writing fluency. They link all this work to the most current research on fluency, taking readers into the daily routines of their classrooms. Readers will be reassured by the many suggestions for integrating fluency into existing reading and writing workshop routines.
Download or read book The Writing Rope written by Joan Sedita and published by Brookes Publishing Company. This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing is a complex task--and today's students must learn to write proficiently and write to learn in different content areas. The Writing Rope: A Framework for Explicit Writing Instruction in All Subjects clearly explains the intertwined skills and processes involved in writing well: transcription, writing craft, critical thinking, syntax, and text structure. Steeped in writing research and packed with reproducible handouts and templates, this book provides the knowledge and resources educators need to help students master writing.
Download or read book Fluent Forever written by Gabriel Wyner and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • For anyone who wants to learn a foreign language, this is the method that will finally make the words stick. “A brilliant and thoroughly modern guide to learning new languages.”—Gary Marcus, cognitive psychologist and author of the New York Times bestseller Guitar Zero At thirty years old, Gabriel Wyner speaks six languages fluently. He didn’t learn them in school—who does? Rather, he learned them in the past few years, working on his own and practicing on the subway, using simple techniques and free online resources—and here he wants to show others what he’s discovered. Starting with pronunciation, you’ll learn how to rewire your ears and turn foreign sounds into familiar sounds. You’ll retrain your tongue to produce those sounds accurately, using tricks from opera singers and actors. Next, you’ll begin to tackle words, and connect sounds and spellings to imagery rather than translations, which will enable you to think in a foreign language. And with the help of sophisticated spaced-repetition techniques, you’ll be able to memorize hundreds of words a month in minutes every day. This is brain hacking at its most exciting, taking what we know about neuroscience and linguistics and using it to create the most efficient and enjoyable way to learn a foreign language in the spare minutes of your day.
Download or read book What Is Good Writing written by Geoffrey Huck and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though we all think we know what good writing is when we see it, it's difficult to define it precisely; and without a satisfactory definition, it becomes problematical to assess as well as to teach. In What Is Good Writing?, Geoffrey J. Huck advances the contemporary debate on writing achievement by drawing on empirical research in linguistics and the other cognitive sciences that shed light on the development of fluency in language. The utility of defining "good writing" as "fluent writing" or writing that is on par with the typical fluency in speech attained by normal adults, is demonstrated by the progress it permits in evaluating the success of current writing programs in school and university--programs which, for the most part, have proved unable to deliver writing assessments that are both valid and reliable. Huck advances an alternative approach that rests on more scientific footing. He explains why reading is key to good writing and why standard composition programs often do not live up to their aspirations.
Download or read book Beginning Writing Lab written by Nancy Atlee and published by PRUFROCK PRESS INC.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educational title for gifted and advanced learners.
Download or read book Speed Up written by Lois Addy and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a tried and tested programme designed specifically for children aged eight to 13 years who have problems with their handwriting, this guide provides an effective source of help and guidance for teachers, teaching assistants and therapists.
Download or read book Real World Writers A Handbook for Teaching Writing with 7 11 Year Olds written by Ross Young and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Real-World Writers shows teachers how they can teach their pupils to write well and with pleasure, purpose and power. It demonstrates how classrooms can be transformed into genuine communities of writers where talking, reading, writing and sharing give children confidence, motivation and a sense of the relevance writing has to their own lives and learning. Based on their practical experience and what research says is the most effective practice, the authors share detailed guidance on how teachers can provide writing study lessons drawing on what real writers do and how to teach grammar effectively. They also share a variety of authentic class writing projects with accompanying teacher notes that will encourage children to use genres appropriately, creatively and flexibly. The authors’ simple yet comprehensive approach includes how to teach the processes and craft knowledge involved in creating successful and meaningful texts. This book is invaluable for all primary practitioners who wish to teach writing for real.
Download or read book Focus on Fluency written by Nancy Cecil and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-12 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This valuable book is written for preservice and inservice teachers who are searching for best practices with which to promote fluency in reading and writing. Fluency is one of the primary building blocks for creating successful readers and writers, and the practical discussions and activities found here will help teachers develop effective ways to promote fluency and to engage and motivate children, while always remembering that the essential purpose of reading is to gain meaning from text and that of writing is to convey meaning through text.
Download or read book Mechanically Inclined written by Jeff Anderson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some teachers love grammar and some hate it, but nearly all struggle to find ways of making the mechanics of English meaningful to kids. As a middle school teacher, Jeff Anderson also discovered that his students were not grasping the basics, and that it was preventing them from reaching their potential as writers. Jeff readily admits, “I am not a grammarian, nor am I punctilious about anything,” 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. Mechanically Inclined is the culmination of years of experimentation that merges the best of writer's workshop elements with relevant theory about how and why skills should be taught. It connects theory about using grammar in context with practical instructional strategies, explains why kids often don't understand or apply grammar and mechanics correctly, focuses on attending to the “high payoff,” or most common errors in student writing, and shows how to carefully construct a workshop environment that can best support grammar and mechanics concepts. Jeff emphasizes four key elements in his teaching:short daily instruction in grammar and mechanics within writer's workshop;using high-quality mentor texts to teach grammar and mechanics in context;visual scaffolds, including wall charts, and visual cues that can be pasted into writer's notebooks;regular, short routines, like “express-lane edits,” that help students spot and correct errors automatically.Comprising an overview of the research-based context for grammar instruction, a series of over thirty detailed lessons, and an appendix of helpful forms and instructional tools, Mechanically Inclined is a boon to teachers regardless of their level of grammar-phobia. It shifts the negative, rule-plagued emphasis of much grammar instruction into one which celebrates the power and beauty these tools have in shaping all forms of writing.
Download or read book Marvelous Minilessons for Teaching Nonfiction Writing K 3 written by Lori Jamison Rog and published by Pembroke Publishers Limited. This book was released on 2015-12-11 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Fluency Construct written by Kelli D. Cummings and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-11 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive overview of fluency as a construct and its assessment in the context of curriculum-based measurement (CBM). Comparing perspectives from language acquisition, reading, and mathematics, the book parses the vagueness and complexities surrounding fluency concepts and their resulting impact on testing, intervention, and students' educational development. Applications of this knowledge in screening and testing, ideas for creating more targeted measures, and advanced methods for studying fluency data demonstrate the overall salience of fluency within CBM. Throughout, contributors argue for greater specificity and nuance in isolating skills to be measured and improved, and for terminology that reflects those educational benchmarks. Included in the coverage: Indicators of fluent writing in beginning writers. Fluency in language acquisition, reading, and mathematics. Foundations of fluency-based assessments in behavioral and psychometric paradigms. Using response time and accuracy data to inform the measurement of fluency. Using individual growth curves to model reading fluency. Latent class analysis for reading fluency research. The Fluency Construct: Curriculum-Based Measurement Concepts and Applications is an essential resource for researchers, graduate students, and professionals in clinical child and school psychology, language and literature, applied linguistics, special education, neuropsychology, and social work.
Download or read book Moving from the Known to the Unknown in Academic Writing written by Verbra Frances Pfeiffer and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expressive writing is mainly used on psychological patients to assist them in dealing with their trauma. This book is the first to use expressive writing in assisting L2 students in their academic writing. As may be shown in this book that using expressive writing techniques are particularly helpful for L2 students who have difficulty expressing themselves when writing in English. The book will appeal to lecturers in language centres, linguists, psychologists, and teachers.
Download or read book Teaching a Child to Read and Write Well written by Aunty Alice and published by PartridgeIndia. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In spite of the wide range of resources and innovative teaching methods schools have had and are using, many students still fail to acquire literacy. Many have specific problems with word and letter symbols. They reverse and invert them, their hearing cannot discriminate fine differences in letter sounds, or they do not perceive patterns easily for their brain to make connections. Their visual and auditory memory may fail them, or their culture may use language that does not align with the standard accepted forms in the text. These children are disadvantaged because their brains work differently and they think and respond differently. This book embraces a different metaphor for teaching literacy that does not compartmentalize the curriculum into separate areas such as spelling, reading, writing, listening, speaking and presenting. Instead, the focus is on assessing their written language as a place to start in planning for success. An unassisted sample of a learner's writing could be said to be an example of what they understand of literacy, whether it be a scribble at three or an essay at twelve. I have proved conclusively that if teacher and student work collaboratively on improving their writing using their reading as a model, their reading ability rises naturally. This customized and individualized teaching method enables authentic teacher/student interactions. This not only allows the teacher to closely tailor their teaching to each student's unique learning needs, but it also brings the student on board in assessing their progress. Teaching a Child to Read and Write Well will clear a path towards mastering literacy that can engage all students and lead to success for all. Give it a go!
Download or read book Using Talk to Support Writing written by Ros Fisher and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2010-04-30 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using Talk to Support Writing presents a new and innovative approach to the teaching of early writing. The authors discuss both theoretical and practical issues around using talk in the classroom to support children as they learn to write. Set within the context of national concern for achievement in the development of writing ability, it addresses the gap in understanding early teaching and focuses on the exploration of talk and writing interface.
Download or read book Assessment and Intervention written by Thomas E. Scruggs and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes chapters on curriculum based measurement and response to intervention, dynamic assessment and working memory, diagnostic accuracy and functional diagnosis, assessment of social behavior, assessment and intervention in reading and writing, and assessment and intervention in social and emotional competence and self-determination.
