Whether you are beginning a teacher-training course or embarking on a career in teaching, this introductory textbook provides comprehensive information on how to meet the standard for effective teaching in pre-school and primary settings. The text includes numerous examples from classrooms as well as checklists of helpful advice. Suggestions are also made for further reading.
Using various examples, planning guides, and models, the authors explain how to effectively help students prepare for different test formats, including: Reading and analyzing texts Multiple-choice questions True-or-false questions Writing ...
This is followed by a sample lesson plan associated with the vignette and suggestions for appropriate texts and supporting materials, as well as suggestions for modifications.
Accessible and engaging, this book offers a comfortable entry point to integrating language instruction in writing units in grades 3–8.
Marian Small removes the mystery of how to engage students in learning while collecting assessment data that drive next instructional plans.” —Karen Karp, Johns Hopkins University “The beauty of this book is that it is simple enough ...
This timely book offers a host of minilessons that focus on comprehensive written communication as one of the essential skills for success.
Don't mistake this as just a collection of anchor chart ideas. At over 180 pages, this book is filled with actual charts, step-by-step instructions to create your own, teaching tips, and instructional strategies.
This book has been replaced by Close Reading of Informational Sources, Second Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-3945-1.
peer discussion/reflective practices and, 19 reading strategies and, 122 transactional theory and, 50, 96–97 See also Comprehension instruction; Comprehension research; Four Powerful Comprehension Strategies; Readers; ...
The first reason is that research shows that discussion enhances readers' comprehension (Kucan & Palincsar, 2013), especially the comprehension of low-achieving students (Murphy, Wilkinson, Soter, Hennessey, & Alexander, 2009).
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