Grounded in research and practice, this resource shows elementary teachers how to use formative assessment to build students' language and literacy skills across the curriculum.
First-grade teacher Catherine Samuels is grateful for the letter formation assessments her kindergarten colleagues collect and analyze. “When I get a new class, I also get all the assessment data the children's teachers collected last ...
Ever wished for comprehension lessons that get students where they need to be in reading?
Offers practical advice on using and improving assessment for learning in the classroom.
This book will help K–6 teachers and reading specialists: Analyze and improve their current literacy practices, curriculum, and instructional focus within the context of a PLC at Work Create or curate common formative team literacy ...
What’s so utterly ground-breaking about this book is Bailey and Heritage’s Dynamic Language Learning Progression (DLLP) process: research-based tools for obtaining much deeper insight into a student’s language progress, then for ...
"This core text introduces pre-service teachers to the essential components of literacy and describes how to effectively deliver explicit, evidence-based instruction on each component"--
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In this informative and practical guide, literacy expert Nancy Boyles uses the framework from Webb's Depth of Knowledge (DOK) to answer these questions, offering experience-based advice along with specific examples of K–8 assessment items ...
The process of determining relevant similarities and distinguishing features comes down to what attributes are important. Teachers may ask students to compare and contrast the characters of Harry Potter and Hermione Granger from the ...