Teaching students to make connections across related texts promotes engagement and improves reading comprehension and content learning. This practical guide explains how to select and teach a wide range of picture books as paired text--two books related by topic, theme, or genre--in grades K-8. The author provides mini-lessons across the content areas, along with hundreds of recommendations for paired text, each linked to specific Common Core standards for reading literature and informational texts. In a large-size format for easy photocopying, the book includes 22 reproducible graphic organizers and other useful tools. Purchasers also get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials.
This collection of passages offers just that. Each of the 25 passages comes with text-dependent comprehension questions, including open-ended questions that require students to use higher-order thinking skills when writing their responses.
Offers twenty-five passages of increasing complexity, with text-dependent questions of varying difficulty for classroom use.
Retrieved July 8, 2013 from www.merriam-webster. com/dictionary/text Schmoker, M. (2011). Focus: Elevating the essentials to radically improve student learning. Alexandria, VA: Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development.
This collection of passages offers just that. Each of the 25 passages comes with text-dependent comprehension questions, including open-ended questions that require students to use higher-order thinking skills when writing their responses.
A collection of 25 leveled passages with text-dependent comprehension questions that help students tackle increasingly complex texts and provide the academic rigor called for by the Common Core State Standards.
Features of this book include: Six thematic units for each grade, each centered on a curated collection of literary and informational texts Focus standards for each unit that complement the topic and promote student mastery of essential ...
Offers twenty-five passages of increasing complexity, with text-dependent questions of varying difficulty for classroom use.
Offers twenty-five passages of increasing complexity, with text-dependent questions of varying difficulty for classroom use.
This book explores the crucial role of text selection, close reading, task construction, classroom discussion, and collaboration in aligning instruction with the CCSS (Common Core State Standards).
These works relate to ideas taken up in the book. The Great Wave is the most famous print from Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai’s series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji.