Download or read book Oral Mentor Texts written by Connie Campbell Dierking 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: "Oral Mentor Texts shows you a way to teach, reinforce and practice skills and strategies with all your students. These teacher-created stories support a wide range of literacy goals"--Back cover.
Download or read book Mentor Texts written by Rose Cappelli and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their first edition of Mentor Texts, authors Lynne Dorfman and Rose Cappelli helped teachers across the country make the most of high-quality children's literature in their writing instruction. Mentor Texts: Teaching Writing Through Children's Literature, K-6, 2nd Edition the authors continue to show teachers how to help students become confident, accomplished writers by using literature as their foundation. The second edition includes brand-new Your Turn Lessons, built around the gradual release of responsibility model, offering suggestions for demonstrations and shared or guided writing. Reflection is emphasized as a necessary component to understanding why mentor authors chose certain strategies, literary devices, sentence structures, and words. Dorfman and Cappelli offer new children's book titles in each chapter and in a carefully curated and annotated Treasure Chest. At the end of each chapter a Think About It'sTalk About It'sWrite About It section invites reflection and conversation with colleagues.The book is organized around the characteristics of good writing'sfocus, content, organization, style, and conventions. The authors write in a friendly and conversational style, employing numerous anecdotes to help teachers visualize the process, and offer strategies that can be immediately implemented in the classroom. This practical resource demonstrates the power of learning to read like writers.
Download or read book Small Moments written by Lucy Calkins and published by Firsthand Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Teacher s Guide to Mentor Texts 6 12 written by Allison Marchetti and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2021 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a practical guide to using mentor texts in the teaching of writing in middle and high school classrooms"--
Download or read book Craft Moves written by Stacey Shubitz and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you choose mentor texts for your students? How do you mine them for the craft lessons you want your students to learn?In Craft Moves: Lesson Sets for Teaching Writing with Mentor Texts , Stacey Shubitz, co-founder of the Two Writing Teachers website, usestwenty recently published picture books to createmore than 180 lessons to teach various craft moves that will help your students become better writers.Each of the 184 lessons in the book includes a publisher's summary, a rationale or explanation of the craft move demonstrated in the book, and a procedure that takes teachers and students back into the mentor text to deepen their understanding of the selected craft move. A step-by-step guide demonstrates how to analyze a picture book for multiple craft moves.Shubitzintroduces picture books as teaching tools and offers ways to integrate them into your curriculum and classroom discussions. She then shares different routines and classroom procedures designed to help students focus on their writing during the writer's workshop as well as focusing how teachers can prepare for small group instruction.Using picture books as mentor texts will help your students not only read as writers and write with joy but also become writers who can effectively communicate meaning, structure their writing, write with detail, and give their writing their own unique voice.
Download or read book Jabari Jumps written by Gaia Cornwall and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working up the courage to take a big, important leap is hard, but Jabari is almost absolutely ready to make a giant splash. Jabari is definitely ready to jump off the diving board. He’s finished his swimming lessons and passed his swim test, and he’s a great jumper, so he’s not scared at all. “Looks easy,” says Jabari, watching the other kids take their turns. But when his dad squeezes his hand, Jabari squeezes back. He needs to figure out what kind of special jump to do anyway, and he should probably do some stretches before climbing up onto the diving board. In a sweetly appealing tale of overcoming your fears, newcomer Gaia Cornwall captures a moment between a patient and encouraging father and a determined little boy you can’t help but root for.
Download or read book Reading and Writing with English Learners written by Valentina Gonzalez and published by SEIDLITZ EDUCATION, LLC. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading & Writing with English Learners offers kindergarten through fifth grade reading and writing educators a user-friendly guide and framework for supporting English learners in balanced literacy classrooms. Authors Valentina Gonzalez and Melinda Miller lead readers in exploring the components of Reading & Writing with English Learners with a special eye for increasing the effectiveness of instructional methods and quality of instruction to serve English learners. This book shares practical and effective techniques for accommodating reading and writing instruction to design learning that simultaneously increases literacy and language development. Reading & Writing with English Learners was written for: • K-5 Classroom Teachers • ESL Teachers • Reading and Writing Instructional Coaches • District Leaders Reading & Writing with English Learners includes: • the components of Reading & Writing Workshop • accommodations that support English Learners • high yield practices for Reading & Writing Workshop during remote teaching • the role of phonics • a culturally inclusive booklist • activities that support Reading & Writing Workshop And more!
Download or read book Writing with Mentors written by Allison Marchetti and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Writing with Mentors, high school teachers Allison Marchetti and Rebekah O'Dell prove that the key to cultivating productive, resourceful writers-writers who can see value and purpose for writing beyond school-is using dynamic, hot-off-the-press mentor texts. In this practical guide, they provide savvy strategies for:--finding and storing fresh new mentor texts, from trusted traditional sources to the social mediums of the day --grouping mentor texts in clusters that show a diverse range of topics, styles, and approaches --teaching with lessons that demonstrate the enormous potential of mentor texts at every stage of the writing process.
Download or read book Night of the Veggie Monster written by George McClements and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every Tuesday night, while his parents try to enjoy their dinner, a boy turns into a monster the moment a pea touches his lips.
Download or read book Beyond Literary Analysis written by Allison Marchetti and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book will make the case for multiple, diverse kinds of analysis to be taught in the high school English classroom. In addition to showing what written analysis looks like "in the wild," the authors will provide readers with a framework of fundamental analytical skills for instruction. Importantly, Marchetti and O'Dell will advocate for framing analytical writing around students' (of all levels and abilities) passions and expertise. And just as they do in their previous Heinemann book, Writing with Mentors, they will share resources for bringing many different kinds of analytical writing into the classroom"--
Download or read book What You Know by Heart written by Katie Wood Ray and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers advice and insights to writing instructors on how to teach and develop curriculum based on their own experiences of reading and writing, and the resulting knowledge of how finished writing comes to be.
Download or read book Ralph Tells a Story written by Abby Hanlon and published by Amazon Children's Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although his teacher insists there are stories everywhere, Ralph cannot think of any to write.
Download or read book The Literacy Cookbook written by Sarah Tantillo and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proven methods for teaching reading comprehension to all students The Literacy Cookbook is filled with classroom-tested techniques for teaching reading comprehension to even the most hard-to-reach students. The book offers a review of approaches that are targeted for teaching reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. The book also includes information on how to connect reading, writing, and test prep. Contains accessible and easy-to-adopt recipes for strengthening comprehension, reading, writing, and oral fluency. Terrific resources are ready for download on the companion website. The materials in this book are aligned with the English Language Arts Common Core Standards The website includes an ELA Common Core Tracking Sheet, a handy resource when writing or evaluating curriculum.
Download or read book Lessons and Units for Closer Reading Grades K 2 written by Nancy Boyles and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever wished for comprehension lessons that get students where they need to be in reading? With Lessons and Units for Closer Reading: K-2 you get just that, 20 initial close reading, standards-based lessons and 80 follow-up comprehension skill lessons that expertly scaffold young readers. The lessons, arranged into 5 units of study, include 12 illustrated Active Reader Cards (printable in four-color!) Day–by-day how-to’s for initial and follow-up lessons 12 Formative Assessments with graphic support and options for oral and written tasks Performance criteria so you can adjust your instruction
Download or read book Launching RTI Comprehension Instruction with Shared Reading written by Nancy Boyles and published by Maupin House Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2013 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now you can easily deliver the shared reading comprehension lessons you need to launch RTI Tier 1 instruction--setting the stage for Tier 1 small-group instruction as well as Tier 2 and Tier 3 interventions. Launching RTI Comprehension Instruction with Shared Reading provides intermediate-grade teachers with: Flexible shared reading plans for 45-, 60-, and 90-minute instructional blocks and guidelines to implement Tier 2 and Tier 3 comprehension interventions; Criteria to select comprehension objectives, choose texts, and create lessons that support students before, during, and after reading; Strategies that move students toward independence in meeting comprehension objectives through explicit, systematic instruction that culminates in written response; Assessment rubrics, checklists, and anchor sets to evaluate students' literature responses; Lessons and support materials for 40 different objectives organized into four thinking strands: forming a general understanding, developing an interpretation, making reader/text connections, and examining content and structure; and Independent follow-up activities in oral language, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing that help students apply what they have learned in the shared lesson. Tips for adapting instruction to English language learners and reflection questions at the end of each chapter round out this complete resource. The included CD provides modifiable electronic versions of planning and support documents, along with additional lesson materials not included in the book.
Download or read book The Power of Picture Books written by Mary Jo Fresch and published by National Council of Teachers of English (Ncte). This book was released on 2009 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picture books aren't just for little kids. They are powerful and engaging texts that can help all middle school students succeed in language arts, math, science, social studies, and the arts. Picture books appeal to students of all readiness levels, interests, and learning styles. Featuring descriptions and activities for fifty exceptional titles, Mary Jo Fresch and Peggy Harkins offer a wealth of ideas for harnessing the power of picture books to improve reading and writing in the content areas. The authors provide a synopsis of each title along with discipline-specific and cross-curricular activities that illustrate how picture books can be used to supplement--and sometimes even replace--traditional textbooks. They also offer title suggestions that create a "text set" of supporting resources. By incorporating picture books into the classroom, teachers across the disciplines can introduce new topics into their curriculum, help students develop nonfiction literacy skills, provide authentic and meaningful cultural perspectives, and help meet a wide range of learning needs.
Download or read book The Sexy Little Book of Oral Pleasure written by Ava Cadell and published by Alpha Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This hip and helpful little guide is packed with tips, tricks and techniques for giving - and receiving - over-the-top pleasure in the 'oral tradition.' From sexual novice to seasoned lover, readers will discover that a little knowledge can go a long way down the road of satisfaction. Includes pleasure techniques for both men and women, with illustrations and safe sex advice.
