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A framework for improving students' critical reading skills using five questions to ask any text.
Teaching practices to build students' prior knowledge, a key component to reading comprehension.
A new edition of the bestselling Growing Language and Literacy, tailored for secondary teachers! Practical strategies that can be applied across grade levels and content areas to support adolescent multilingual learners.
Georgia Heard's best-selling resource for teaching poetry, now fully updated with new lessons, exercises, and writing prompts that engage today's kids.
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Designed to be the second unit in first grade, Word Detectives supports students’ word solving skills and their knowledge of high-frequency words. This playful unit expands on the important work that the entire series does to support youngsters’ foundational reading skills.
In this unit, students will:
The Jump Rope Readers decodable books gradually and systematically introduce beginning readers to new letter-sound correspondences and high-frequency words. Along the way, they also introduce memorable characters, exciting adventures, fascinating nonfiction content and the foundational elements of fiction and nonfiction texts.
50 action steps teachers can take to improve their writing instruction and achieve better results.
Improve secondary students' writing skills with 100-word stories, a popular form of flash fiction that teaches kids a wide variety of literary skills and devices. Lessons and writing prompts accompany each mentor text and give you tools to use this instructional method in your writing classroom today.
Tom Newkirk, lifetime educator and bestselling author of Minds Made for Stories, discusses eight powerful literacy practices-- and the democratic values that connect them. Newkirk argues that "the house of literacy has a thousand doors, and our job is to help students find one that will let them in." Yet for many students reading and writing is made unnecessarily difficult and uninviting. We need to tell a better story. Literacy's Democratic Roots celebrates eight door-opening ideas that can help us make room for all students.
With The Writing Minilessons Book, Grade 5, you can develop your fifth-grade students' deep knowledge of literacy concepts. You'll get 225 must-have writing minilessons: concise, explicit, whole-group lessons with a purposeful application in building students' writing power.
Elevate your students' understanding of nonfiction with The Intermediate Comprehension Toolkit. This resource is brimming with ready-to-use lessons that seamlessly integrate into any curriculum or instructional approach: whole class, intervention, small group, and beyond.
Deepen comprehension across the content areas and develop critical thinking with strategies for connecting, questioning, inferring, summarizing, and more. The Intermediate Toolkit Teacher Pack offers all you need for your classroom, helping to nurture lifelong learners and thinkers.
Elevate your students' understanding of nonfiction with The Primary Comprehension Toolkit. This resource is brimming with ready-to-use lessons that seamlessly integrate into any curriculum or instructional approach: whole class, intervention, small group, and beyond.
Deepen comprehension across the content areas and develop critical thinking with strategies for connecting, questioning, inferring, summarizing, and more. The Primary Toolkit Teacher Pack offers all you need for your classroom, helping to nurture lifelong learners and thinkers.
Let’s Gather: Reading to and with Your Kindergartners provides teachers with complete interactive read-aloud and shared reading plans to use with and alongside the Units of Study in Reading or to supplement any other resources you might be using to teach reading.
The Jump Rope Readers series gradually and systematically introduces beginning readers to new letter-sound correspondences and high-frequency words. Along the way, the books also introduce memorable characters, exciting adventures, fascinating nonfiction content and the foundational elements of fiction and nonfiction texts.
