Gaining the skills to critically read a wide variety of informational texts is more important than ever for today's K-12 students. This carefully crafted book offers 40 standards-based instructional activities that teachers can immediately put to use in the classroom. Clear rationales and step-by-step instructions are provided for implementing each strategy, together with helpful classroom examples and suggested texts for different grade levels. In a large-size format for easy photocopying, the book includes 44 reproducible worksheets. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials. (Prior edition title: 35 Strategies for Guiding Readers through Informational Texts.) New to This Edition *Now features more strategies, including 16 that are completely new. *Explicit links throughout to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and other current standards. *Two additional strands of activities: Reading Closely and Discussion. *Numerous new and revised reproducible tools--all downloadable.
... readers with an understanding of informational texts as a genre as well as guidelines for selecting and assessing the complexity of informational texts . It contains subsequent sections that focus on strategies to use for skill areas ...
Best practices in narrative text comprehension instruction. In L. Mandel Morrow & L. B. Gambrell (Eds.), Best practices in literacy instruction (6th ed., pp. 221–249). New York: Guilford Press. Anderson, J. R. (2015).
Detailed and comprehensive, the book champions an integrated system of guiding readers that involvesboth fiction and nonfiction, as well as the texts that surround students in and out of school: websites, directions, instructions, schedules ...
This book is an essential guide for primary teachers that explores the key technical and practical aspects of how children read with strong links to theory and how to translate this into the classroom.
These introductory chapters will help you do the following: Understand research based comprehension strategies for content classrooms Tap into students' background knowledge to build upon and enhance comprehension of complex texts Teach ...
"The book uses the metaphor of a mask (Invisibility, Anger, Class Clown, etc.) our most challenging students wear to hide their reasons not to engage in reading and writing"--
Provides middle school and high school educators with literacy development strategies that emphasize effective learning in content contexts
Give students the power of language by using the inspiring ideas in this very readable book.
Michael L. Kamil, Peter B. Mosenthal, P. David Pearson, and Rebecca Barr (Mahwah, N.J.: Erlbaum, 2000), 3:269–284. 10. David Coleman and Susan Pimentel,Bringing the Common Core to Life: Ten Essays on the Anchor Reading Standards ...
Filling a crucial need for K-6 teachers, this book provides practical strategies for using nonfiction trade books in language arts and content area instruction.