Download or read book Teach Smarter written by Vanessa J. Levin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover new, practical methods for teaching literacy skills in your early childhood classroom. Has teaching early literacy skills become a stumbling block to getting your preschool students kindergarten ready? Break out of the tired “letter of the week” routine and learn how to transform your lessons with fun and effective techniques. Teach Smarter: Literacy Strategies for Early Childhood Teachers will equip teachers to infuse every aspect of their teaching with exciting hands-on literacy teaching methods that engage students and help them build authentic connections with books, so that 100% of their students will have a strong literacy foundation and will be fully prepared for success in kindergarten and beyond. Respected author Vanessa Levin, veteran early childhood educator and author of the “Pre-K Pages” blog, breaks down the research and translates it into realistic, actionable steps you can take to improve your teaching. Features specific examples of teaching techniques and activities that engage students in hands-on, experiential learning during circle time, centers, and small groups. Offers a simple, four-step system for teaching literacy skills, based on the foundational principles of early literacy teaching Demonstrates how to build your confidence in your ability to get 100% of your students ready for kindergarten, long before the end of the school year Understand the problems with traditional literacy teaching and identify gaps in your current teaching practice with this valuable resource.

Download or read book Writing Effective Lesson Plans written by Peter Serdyukov and published by Pearson. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developed by two educators with experience in both elementary and secondary classrooms, Writing Effective Lesson Plans details a unique a step-by-step procedure designed to streamline the process of lesson planning and make teaching smoother and more efficient. Coined the "Five-Star Lesson Plan" by the authors, this model consists of five classic components: lesson description, goals and objectives, materials and tools, procedures, and reflective assessment and evaluation. This workbook guides beginning and experienced teachers through each step to create lesson plans that best meet the needs of every student. It also explores the inherent challenges to effective lesson planning, such as time efficiency, knowledge construction, skill development, involving the students' families, and implementing your plan. With its mix of concise theory and hands-on activities, this book is a one-stop resource encouraging a deep and thoughtful approach to a skill that is often not sufficiently developed in teacher preparation programs.

Download or read book Lesson Plans for Teaching Writing written by Chris Jennings Dixon and published by National Council of Teachers of English (Ncte). This book was released on 2007 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do students often graduate from high school unprepared for college writing? And what can we do about it? These are the questions that a group of classroom teachers set out to explore. Over the course of seven years, a group of middle, high school, college, and university teachers participated in a federally funded writing coalition project to implement innovative approaches to teaching writing. Together they developed this series of lesson plans designed to make writing both fun and an integral part of diverse curricula. "Practical" is the recurrent motif of each teaching strategy. Developed by real teachers in real classrooms, the lessons are grouped into seven categories: writing process, portfolios, literature, research, grammar, writing on demand, and media. Each lesson follows a standard format that includes purpose of the activity; necessary preparation; required props and materials; process and procedure for implementation; instructional pointers and/or possible pitfalls; and reflections from the teacher that provide "behind the scenes" insights.

Download or read book Goal Driven Lesson Planning for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages written by Marnie Reed and published by University of Michigan Press ELT. This book was released on 2010-07-29 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is more than a collection of activities or ready-made lesson plans to add to a teaching repertoire. Instead, Goal-Driven Lesson Planning is intended to empower teachers and help them create a principled framework for their teaching—a framework that will shape the varied activities of the ESL classroom into a coherent teaching and learning partnership. After reading this book, teachers and prospective teachers will be able to articulate their individual teaching philosophies. Goal-Driven Lesson Planning shows readers how to take any piece from English language materials—an assigned text, a random newspaper article, an ESL activity from a website, etc.—and use it to teach students something about language. Readers are walked through the process of reflecting on their role in diagnosing what that “something” is—what students really need—and planning how to get them there and how to know when they got there in a goal-driven principled manner. This book has chapters on the theory of setting specific language goals for students; how to analyze learner needs (including an initial diagnostic and needs-analysis); templates to use when planning goal-driven English language lessons; explicit instruction on giving corrective feedback; how to recognize and assess student progress; and the mechanics and logistics that facilitate the goal-driven language classroom.

Download or read book Lesson Plans Writing written by Neil Karper and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has everything you need to write your first lesson plan. The author puts everything he knows about lesson plans into simple, understandable language so that you can easily learn all there is to know about writing a great lesson plan. Inside this book, you will learn: - The Lesson Plan Basics: Easy guidelines on how to create your first lesson plan. - Goals and Objectives: Important keys to getting your lesson plan on the right course with your students. - Necessary Prerequisites and Materials: How to make sure your students don't miss anything. - Your Lesson Introduction: How to engage and empower your students to learn. - The Heart of the Matter: How to make sure your students have that "aha" moment by constructing a good main activity. - Driving it Home: Keys to constructing a great independent activity to really drive your lesson plan home. - Follow-up: Simple pointers to help you make sure your students retain what you've taught them. - Assessment and Evaluation: How to assess your lesson plan's effectiveness. - Adaptations: Learn how to modify your lesson plan to different situations and circumstances. - Most Common Lesson Plan Mistakes: How to avoid them so you don't make the same mistake like so many others. - Writing Activities: How to create writing activities that will help grow your students' abilities and comprehension. - Lesson Plan Format: How to come up with your own very powerful lesson plan. - Two Sample Lesson Plans: Will help you construct your very first highly effective lesson plan. If you've ever been interested in writing a lesson plan, but didn't know where to start, then I encourage you to learn from the author's experience and get started on the right footing. This book contains everything you need to know in order to help you create an amazing classroom experience!

Download or read book Planning for Learning written by Julie Hinde-McLeod and published by Social Science Press. This book was released on 2003-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Write Beside Them written by Penny Kittle and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about teaching writing and the gritty particulars of teaching adolescents. But it is also the planning, the thinking, the writing, the journey: all I've been putting into my teaching for the last two decades. This is the book I wanted when I was first given ninth graders and a list of novels to teach. This is a book of vision and hope and joy, but it is also a book of genre units and minilessons and actual conferences with students. -Penny Kittle What makes the single biggest difference to student writers? When the invisible machinery of your writing processes is made visible to them. Write Beside Them shows you how to do it. It's the comprehensive book and companion video that English/language arts teachers need to ensure that teens improve their writing. Across genres, Penny Kittle presents a flexible framework for instruction, the theory and experience to back it up, and detailed teaching information to help you implement it right away. Each section of Write Beside Them describes a specific element of Penny's workshop: Daily writing practice: writer's notebooks and quick writes Instructional frameworks: minilessons, organization, conferring, and sharing drafts Genre work: narrative, persuasion, and writing in multiple genres Skills work: grammar, punctuation, and style Assessment: evaluation, feedback, portfolios, and grading All along the way, Penny demonstrates minilessons that respond to students' immediate needs, and her Student Focus sections profile and spotlight how individual writers grew and changed over the course of her workshop. In addition, Write Beside Them provides a study guide, reproducibles, writing samples from Penny and her students, suggestions for nurturing your own writing life, and a helpful FAQ. Best of all, the online videos take you right inside Penny's classroom, explicitly modeling how to make the process of writing accessible to all kids. Penny Kittle's active coaching and can-do attitude alone will energize your teaching and inspire you to write with your students. But her strategies, expert advice, and compelling in-class video footage will help you turn inspiration into great teaching. Read Write Beside Them and discover that the most important influence for all young writers is their teacher. Penny was the recipient of the 2009 NCTE Britton Award for Write Beside Them.

Download or read book Better Lesson Plans Better Lessons written by Ben Curran and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best way to help students succeed is through deliberate and careful lesson planning focused on the end result of increasing student achievement. Whether you are a new teacher or an experienced educator, this book will help you get started by providing a practical, step-by-step guide to designing lessons that will lead to student mastery of any objective.

Download or read book The Best Part of Me written by and published by Avenues. This book was released on 2002 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning photographer captures children's thoughts about their bodies in striking b&w photos and disarmingly honest words.

Download or read book A Raisin in the Sun written by Lorraine Hansberry and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-11-02 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of Black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959. This edition presents the fully restored, uncut version of Hansberry's landmark work with an introduction by Robert Nemiroff. Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of Black America—and changed American theater forever. The play's title comes from a line in Langston Hughes's poem "Harlem," which warns that a dream deferred might "dry up/like a raisin in the sun." "The events of every passing year add resonance to A Raisin in the Sun," said The New York Times. "It is as if history is conspiring to make the play a classic."

Download or read book Lesson Plan and Record Book written by Teacher Created Resources and published by Teacher Created Resources. This book was released on 2002-02 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weekly lesson plan pages for six different subjects. Records for each of four 10-week quarters can be read on facing pages. Plus helpful tips for substitute teachers. 8-1/2" x 11". Spiral-bound.

Download or read book ESL Lesson Plans for Teachers written by Denise Scott and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-18 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ESL Lesson Plans for Teachers has been designed and written by experienced teachers of the English language. The book contains more than 30 complete lesson plans, and they have been specifically created for beginners, intermediate, and advanced learners. ________________________________ It offers educators practical and in-depth approaches to setting-up a successful ESL classroom, navigates the challenges of motivating and interacting with students, and provides proven research-based instructional techniques for students of all different language abilities. The focus in this book is on understanding and adjusting to students' needs and motivations. Accordingly you will follow case studies of four students who live and are educated in different parts of the world as they progress through the successive stages of proficiency in English. As you journey with each of the students, you will be provided with the tools in which to help them. This includes lesson planning templates, sample lesson plans, activities and much more. Furthermore, you will learn how the human brain goes through the process of recognising auditory stimuli as language, and how a child's brain assimilates language. WHAT'S IN THE LESSON PLANS? Each lesson plan contains the lesson topic, learning objective, assessment strategies, detailed exercises and lessons, materials, and how to apply what the student has learned. There are ready-made lesson plans for essay writing, debating, current affairs, dialogue, role-plays, reporting, history, persuasive techniques and psychology to name a few. Be secure in the knowledge that your students will be getting the speaking, listening, reading, and writing practice that they need. The lessons can be tailored to fit your students' individual or the classes collective needs, which will give you the confidence that they will always be receiving the best possible language instruction. Be the best teacher that you can be and find that deep desire to share knowledge as an educator. Use and apply what you will learn in this book to make a lasting impact on the students and have the goal of making a difference, no matter how small it might be. A well-prepared lesson plan is crucial to your role as a teacher. This book will guarantee that you gain an in-depth grasp on what an effective lesson plan is, and how to create your own exemplary lesson plans for many years to come. ________________________________ Here is what you will get from this book: How to understand the needs of the students, and the ways in which to assess their English language proficiency Over 30 different lesson plans that are adaptable depending on the level of each learner Learn how to write a lesson objective, and draft a practical lesson plan using a classic-model and adaptable lesson plan outline Motivation techniques for students The standard model of a lesson plan Detailed explanations of current pedagogy to teachers who want to access the most relevant ESL practices Incorporating classroom activities to engage students And much, much more! Read on your PC, MAC, smart phone, tablet, Kindle device or buy it on paperback.

Download or read book ESL Lesson Plans for Teachers written by Louis McKinney and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-02-08 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ESL Lesson Plans for Teachers has been designed and written by experienced teachers of the English language. The book contains more than 30 complete lesson plans, and they have been specifically created for beginners, intermediate, and advanced learners. ________________________________ It offers educators practical and in-depth approaches to setting-up a successful ESL classroom, navigates the challenges of motivating and interacting with students, and provides proven research-based instructional techniques for students of all different language abilities. The focus in this book is on understanding and adjusting to students' needs and motivations. Accordingly you will follow case studies of four students who live and are educated in different parts of the world as they progress through the successive stages of proficiency in English. As you journey with each of the students, you will be provided with the tools in which to help them. This includes lesson planning templates, sample lesson plans, activities and much more. Furthermore, you will learn how the human brain goes through the process of recognising auditory stimuli as language, and how a child's brain assimilates language. WHAT'S IN THE LESSON PLANS? Each lesson plan contains the lesson topic, learning objective, assessment strategies, detailed exercises and lessons, materials, and how to apply what the student has learned. There are ready-made lesson plans for essay writing, debating, current affairs, dialogue, role-plays, reporting, history, persuasive techniques and psychology to name a few. Be secure in the knowledge that your students will be getting the speaking, listening, reading, and writing practice that they need. The lessons can be tailored to fit your students' individual or the classes collective needs, which will give you the confidence that they will always be receiving the best possible language instruction. Be the best teacher that you can be and find that deep desire to share knowledge as an educator. Use and apply what you will learn in this book to make a lasting impact on the students and have the goal of making a difference, no matter how small it might be. A well-prepared lesson plan is crucial to your role as a teacher. This book will guarantee that you gain an in-depth grasp on what an effective lesson plan is, and how to create your own exemplary lesson plans for many years to come. ________________________________ Here is what you will get from this book: How to understand the needs of the students, and the ways in which to assess their English language proficiency Over 30 different lesson plans that are adaptable depending on the level of each learner Learn how to write a lesson objective, and draft a practical lesson plan using a classic-model and adaptable lesson plan outline Motivation techniques for students The standard model of a lesson plan Detailed explanations of current pedagogy to teachers who want to access the most relevant ESL practices Incorporating classroom activities to engage students And much, much more! Read on your PC, MAC, smart phone, tablet, Kindle device or buy it on paperback.

Download or read book Two Bad Ants written by Chris Van Allsburg and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1988 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When two bad ants desert from their colony, they experience a dangerous adventure that convinces them to return to their former safety.

Download or read book Keep It Real With PBL Elementary written by Jennifer Pieratt and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plan enriching Project-Based Learning experiences with ease! The book′s companion website features an updated guide to help teachers integrate technology into PBL experiences for online and blended learning instruction. Is project-planning a project in and of itself? Does project-based learning (PBL) feel more like a pipe dream than a reality in your classroom? Dr. Jennifer Pieratt, a consultant and former teacher herself, knows just where you′re coming from. Developed from the author′s experience in the trenches of project-based learning over the past decade, this book will lead you through the planning process for an authentic PBL experience in a clear and efficient way. Project-based learning has been found to develop workforce readiness, innovation, and student achievement. In this book, the keys to implementing PBL effectively are explored in a simple, easy-to-use format. In addition to thought-provoking questions for journaling, readers will find a visually accessible style featuring • #realtalk soundbites that honor the challenges to implementing PBL • Tips and resources to support the project-planning process • Planning forms to guide you through planning your projects • Key terminology and acronyms in PBL • Exercises to help you reflect and process throughout your project plans If mastering a PBL framework is on your list, prepare to cross it off with the help of this book! Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Winner

Download or read book How To Write A Lesson Plan For English Class written by Molly Elodie Rose and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-08 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This "How To" book is different. Unlike every other book you'll read with titles like "How To Craft The Perfect Lesson Plan in 165 Incredibly Simple Steps", this book is different. It's a simple "How To" guide for creating a lesson plan that's right for you and your students and also an easy to follow workbook. We'll discuss what exactly a lesson plan is and why you even need one. We'll then go on to look at the process for creating a lesson plan, including the questions you need to consider (so that you don't forget anything important!) Then we've got 60 lesson plan templates for you to follow, with a double-page layout so that you have plenty of space for all your notes. We've even included some 'Further Notes' pages at the back for anything else you need to jot down. Teaching students of any age is both a challenging and daunting prospect. With a well-thought-out lesson plan in place (anticipating the questions you'll face AND the answers) it will be much less daunting and much more exciting. Good luck! Molly

Download or read book Your Teacher Training Handbook written by Jim McGrath and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your Teacher Training Skills Handbook will support you throughout your teacher training course, helping you develop both the academic and practical teaching skills required to achieve QTS with confidence. Written in a conversational style and following the progress of a fictional trainee teacher, Alex, use this book to not only develop your own skills, but to think about how you can pass those skills on to your learners.