Download or read book The Daily 5 written by Gail Boushey and published by Stenhouse Publishers. This book was released on 2014 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Daily 5, Second Edition retains the core literacy components that made the first edition one of the most widely read books in education and enhances these practices based on years of further experience in classrooms and compelling new brain research. The Daily 5 provides a way for any teacher to structure literacy (and now math) time to increase student independence and allow for individualized attention in small groups and one-on-one. Teachers and schools implementing the Daily 5 will do the following: Spend less time on classroom management and more time teaching Help students develop independence, stamina, and accountability Provide students with abundant time for practicing reading, writing, and math Increase the time teachers spend with students one-on-one and in small groups Improve schoolwide achievement and success in literacy and math. The Daily 5, Second Edition gives teachers everything they need to launch and sustain the Daily 5, including materials and setup, model behaviors, detailed lesson plans, specific tips for implementing each component, and solutions to common challenges. By following this simple and proven structure, teachers can move from a harried classroom toward one that hums with productive and engaged learners. What's new in the second edition: Detailed launch plans for the first three weeks Full color photos, figures, and charts Increased flexibility regarding when and how to introduce each Daily 5 choice New chapter on differentiating instruction by age and stamina Ideas about how to integrate the Daily 5 with the CAFE assessment system New chapter on the Math Daily 3 structure
Download or read book Primary Literacy Centers written by Susan Nations and published by Maupin House Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2013 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For K-3 teachers Seven easy-to-maintain centers help you work smarter, not harder, as you connect standards-based reading and writing instruction with student application of skills and strategies. Your literacy centers will become focused places of learning, keeping you free to teach small groups and minimize student interruption--and you control how to fit the centers into your day. Primary Literacy Centers: Supports the balanced literacy approach; Features 36 language arts mini-lessons with easy-to-use center connections; Correlates to NCTE/IRA National Language Arts Standards; Incorporates both fiction and nonfiction text; and Gives students time to practice and apply literacy-block skills and strategies that you teach and model &&/UL&&Here's everything you need to know to set up and manage centers in a balanced literacy framework for: Reading, Word Work, Read the Room, Listening, Research, Literature Response, Writing, and Poetry. Make literacy centers a vital part of your classroom!
Download or read book Literacy Work Stations written by Debbie Diller and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever wonder what the rest of your class should be doing while you are working with a small reading group? Debbie Diller offers practical suggestions in Literacy Work Stations: Making Centers Work for over a dozen literacy work stations that link to classroom instruction and make preparation and management easy for teachers. Learn how to set up work stations, how to manage them, and how to keep them going throughout the year. Each chapter includes: How to introduce each station Which materials to include at which station What to model the station as How to solve problems and differentiate How to assess while keeping students accountable Reflection questions for professional development Materials in both English and Spanish are provided in the extensive resource section. Throughout the book the author has included photos of literacy workstations from a variety of classrooms in which she has worked to illustrate the methods discussed in the text. Literacy Work Stations is a go-to classroom resource that will help you keep all students engaged while you focus in on small groups.
Download or read book Literacy Centers in Photographs written by Nikki Campo-Stallone and published by Teaching Resources. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The photographs make it easy to understand how to set up and organize centers for poetry, listening, writing, independent reading, the ABCs, and lots more.
Download or read book Intermediate Literacy Stations written by Susan Nations and published by Maupin House Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2013 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intermediate Literacy Stations helps teachers in grades three and up move from primary centers into stations of independent investigation! Part One provides you with all the basics and classroom-tested tips for establishing and maintaining stations in your classroom: Chapter 1: Follow the reader's workshop model to help students move toward independence as they practice and apply literacy skills in six intermediate stations: Comprehension, Fluency, Listening and Speaking, Visual Literacy, Word Work, and Written Response; Chapter 2: Choose and differentiate activities that encourage the deepest level of investigation from your students; Chapter 3: Learn how to keep students moving from station to station as they take control of their own learning by using a Literacy Learning Plan that outlines their station rotations; Chapter 4: Start your stations and manage activities with a station rotation table; and Chapter 5: Use insider tips and tricks for planning lessons, keeping activities fresh and students on track and organized. Part Two has six chapters, each focusing on a suggested literacy station and offering five activities, complete with material lists, tips for setting up, step-by-step activity instructions, strategies for differentiation, and reproducibles. The appendix and resources section at the end of this book provides additional reproducibles and station management tools, and all color reproducibles are available for download off this webpage.
Download or read book More Primary Literacy Centers written by Susan Nations and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2013 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More Primary Literacy Centers provides all the information you need to easily implement literacy centers in your classroom or build upon an established, balanced literacy program that will generate more meaningful reading and writing experiences. For those just beginning to use literacy centers, this guide offers clear yet comprehensive instructions, ready-to-use lesson plans and center activities, reproducible charts, and time-saving tips for seamlessly building centers into your language arts curriculum. Susan and Mellissa show you how to set up literature-based centers for reading, literature response, writing, poetry, listening, and word work that are effective and easily maintained. If you are a literacy center veteran who needs to revive and transform your centers into focused places of learning where students of all levels apply, practice, and master standards-based skills and strategies, this follow-up companion to Primary Literacy Centers is the perfect refresher course, complete with all-new lessons and activities. More Primary Literacy Centers includes whole-class lesson plans, suggested center materials and templates, organizational strategies, and other classroom-tested ideas that will save you time and help both emergent and fluent readers experience success.
Download or read book Simply Stations Independent Reading Grades K 4 written by Debbie Diller and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teach students how to practice reading skills independently – so learning sticks Simply Stations: Independent Reading shows how to ensure that elementary students are purposefully and effectively practicing reading comprehension, reading fluency, selecting books, decoding, inference, and summarizing every day. Your students will soon be purposefully engaged and making critical steps to owning their learning. Debbie Diller has been refining literacy stations (sometimes called centers) for more than 40 years, working with thousands of teachers and students. In this book, she guides you step-by-step through planning for instruction that incorporates reading standards, setting up and launching independent reading stations, varying and refreshing content, to reflection and ongoing modification. What stands out in this book is the full integration of instruction; Debbie shows how whole-group lessons transfer to stations work so students are practicing key skills independently – and gives you everything needed for success: Recommendations by grade level at every step, including grade-appropriate materials and book choices, fiction and informational texts, for each station; Whole-group lesson plans, differentiated by grade level and based on key reading standards, to introduce and support independent and partner work; On-the-spot formative assessment ideas and troubleshooting tips; Ideas to improve English Language Learners’ reading skills, including online Spanish-language materials; 30 time-saving downloadable resources for teachers and students to ensure success; and Dozens, real-classroom photos so you see the possibilities first-hand. Simply Stations: Independent Reading gives you invaluable tips, solutions, and insight that can transform the way your students learn and practice reading skills. It’s time to boost the impact of your literacy stations!
Download or read book Time for Literacy Centers written by Gretchen Owocki and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a recent survey, 80% of K-3 teachers considered outstanding in literacy instruction reported using literacy centers in their classrooms. Surprised? Gretchen Owocki isn't. She knows that literacy centers are an ideal tool for teachers who seek out opportunities to differentiate their instruction, and in Time for Literacy Centers, she shows you every aspect of using centers successfully. Owocki has thought of everything you need to know to make learning centers happen, from planning to assessment to ensuring that centers help all students meet content and skills standards. Grounded in solid research, yet lively and practical enough to keep on the corner of your desk, Time for Literacy Centers offers explicit, helpful advice on teaching with literacy centers, including: smart suggestions for on-the-spot and preplanned differentiation through centers-including tips for working with special-needs students and English-language learners specific learning and teaching principles that guide and enhance center-based instruction literacy goals for centers that are developmentally appropriate for your students, yet flexible enough to work in grades K-3 ideas for organizing the physical space in your classroom for one or many centers strategies for managing center-based instruction that help even the busiest classrooms run smoothly plans for more than 50 literacy centers with activities and reproducibles that are ready to roll out right away. If you're trying literacy centers for the first time, Time for Literacy Centers gives you plenty of start-to-finish help in getting your centers up and running-and running well. If you're a center veteran, you'll uncover some nitty-gritty details that will help you provide the best individual support for your students as they develop their literacy capabilities.
Download or read book Simply Stations Partner Reading Grades K 4 written by Debbie Diller and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literacy stations should be more than just busy work. Simply Stations: Partner Reading shows how to ensure that kids are purposefully and effectively practicing comprehension, deeper thinking, vocabulary, and communication skills every day. Here’s everything you need to plan, teach, and refresh the Partner Reading station year-round, including… Step-by-step instructions for launching and maintaining the station; Whole-group lesson plans, based on key literacy standards, to introduce and support partner work; Printable teacher and student tools; On-the-spot assessment ideas and troubleshooting tips; Lists of grade-level specific materials; and Countless real-classroom photos so you see the possibilities first-hand.
Download or read book What are the Other Kids Doing While You Teach Small Groups written by Donna Marriott and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On classroom managment and teaching English
Download or read book Teaching Interpretation written by Sonja Cherry-Paul and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What does interpretation really mean? What does it look like in the classroom? How can we effectively teach students at all reading levels to be successful at constructing interpretations?"-- Back cover.
Download or read book Primary Literacy Responses written by Susan Nations and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you already have a thriving, established balanced literacy program or are looking to build opportunities for your young students, this book will inspire you to generate more meaningful reading and writing experiences into your classroom. This resource offers clear instructions with lesson plans, activities, charts, tips, and more tools that strengthen students literacy skills as they read, write, speak, listen, respond to text, and engage in active and meaningful word work. Primary Literacy Responses allows teachers to incorporate best practices that are standards-based but, even more important, engaging to early, emergent, and fluent readers and writers."
Download or read book Literacy Centers written by abcschoolhouse and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get Started With Literacy Centers! We all know that small group instruction is vital to successful learning in the primary classroom, but what do we do with the rest of the class while we are teaching these small groups? We understand the value of student initiated learning, but how do we include that in our instructional day? We want to provide our students with meaningful, engaging and standard based independent practice, but how? The answer to all of these questions lies in the implementation of literacy centers in the classroom! Literacy centers provide meaningful and authentic instruction for students, while providing uninterrupted teaching time for directed small group instruction. Center based learning allows for student led practice in all the key areas of the language arts framework. Most importantly, center based instruction instills confidence and excitement in our young learners. This eBook offers 100 pages of practical suggestions and activities to guide you in getting started with literacy centers: Why use literacy centers? How to manage literacy centers? Illustrations and photographs of example management systems. Things to think about so you can anticipate and plan for problems before they occur. 60 literacy center activities for ranging ability levels More than 60 reproducible blackline masters. More than 30 full-color photographs that show student work samples and actual center activities.
Download or read book Literacy Centers 3 4 written by Evan-Moor Educational Publishers and published by Evan-Moor Educational Publishers. This book was released on 2003-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take It to Your Seat Literacy Centers, Grades 3-4 contains everything you need for 16 centers. Center activities provide practice in reading and writing skills. These centers are ideal for small group and individual practice. - analogies - multiple-meaning words - prefixes - suffixes - main idea and supporting details - antonyms - synonyms - combining sentences - alphabetical order - writing descriptive paragraphs - similes - parts of speech--nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs
Download or read book Literacy Centers for the Primary Classroom written by Caroline Jackson Blakemore and published by Dominie Elementary. This book was released on 1999 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modeled, Shared, and Guided Reading Activities Come to Life. This valuable resource is designed to give K-3 children at the emergent and early reading levels purposeful yet playful activities that relate to the modeled, shared, and guided reading books used in the classroom. Activities featured are organized into six centers that form a critical part of a balanced literacy approach: Letter Play Center Word Play Center Sentence Play Center Oral Language Center Writing Center Reading Center
Download or read book Literacy Centers for Reading Skills written by Dede Dodds and published by Teacher Created Resources. This book was released on 2003 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full-color, hands-on manipulatives give students meaningful, independent practice with sight words, phonics, and decoding. Simple activities give students a positive introduction to the process of writing responses to literature.
Download or read book Reading Learning Centers for Primary Grades written by Shirleen S. Wait, Ph.D. and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2005-08-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Learning Centers for Primary Grades Monthly Theme Units, Activities, and Games, Second Edition Reading Learning Centers for Primary Grades is a comprehensive resource that offers everything a primary school teacher needs to create and manage exciting, hands-on learning centers to enliven and enrich a primary reading program. The book includes information on topics such as the types of centers that match various learning styles and ability levels, directions for organizing and managing the centers, ideas for establishing monthly themes, and directions for creating hands-on skills games for remediation and enrichment. The book contains thirteen seasonal themes, lists of thematic children's books, calendars and bulletin-board ideas, and illustrated, step-by-step directions for creating 88 thematic and skills-based board, card, sorting, and matching games. This new edition addresses No Child Left Behind legislation and standards, and reflects the diverse U.S. population through Black History, Hispanic, Asian, and Classical Latin cultural themes. Praise for Reading Learning Centers for Primary Grades "Wow! This book is a gold mine of great ideas to make reading instruction come to life. Students will enjoy the active learning in the centers, and they'll be learning essential reading skills at the same time. What a great combination! I enthusiastically recommend this book to our Project CHILD teachers, and all teachers who are seeking good ideas to actively engage children in the learning process." --Sarah M. (Sally) Butzin, developer, Project CHILD;president, Institute for School Innovation in Tallahassee, FL "One of the most important things we can do for our youngest citizens is teach them to read and encourage them to love it! This book shows primary teachers how to do both, by demonstrating fun ways to engage students in high-interest learning activities that will improve their reading skills." --John Peyton, Mayor of Jacksonville, FL, and creator of Mayor Peyton's Book Club for Children
