Literacy stations should be more than just busy work. Simply Stations: Independent 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 Independent 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.
With this book, you’ll be able to differentiate instruction in a way that’s manageable and sustainable – and build those relationships that help young readers achieve success.
In The Big Book of Literacy Tasks, Nancy Akhavan offers an instructional plan designed to yield independent effort and engagement. 75 tasks in beautiful full-color two-pagers ensure gradual release by moving more swiftly from the "I do" ...
This book will help teachers solve the dilemma: What does the rest of my class do while I'm working with a small reading group?
Despite the cruel course of the illness, Adam’s growing weakness evokes in him a remarkable spiritual strength. This is the story of one last summer, lived as honestly and faithfully as possible.
Struggling with a prosecutor's refusal to send work his way, investigator Arkady Renko of Moscow finds his efforts to watch out for teen chess prodigy Zhenya challenged by a case involving a kidnapped baby, a dead prostitute, and police ...
This book extends Debbie Diller's best-selling work on literacy work stations and classroom design to the field of mathematics.
Standards-based learning just got a lot easier This new version of the Common Core Companion provides a Smart Chart Index for all states implementing state-specific ELA standards.
This book is a simple meditation on stations of the cross with beautiful images and incorporates the ancient hymn Stabat Mater in delightful calligraphy.
If only it were that simple . . . Jim Burke anticipated the challenges and developed the Common Core Companion series for K-12. In his next smart move, he deferred to the talents of Sharon Taberski to be author of the K-2 volume.
... many can identify with hashtags such as Justin Timberlake and Jonah as a practical example of a main idea. Even if they don't tweet on a regular basis, students are exposed Hill that poke fun at society's overuse of to this social ...