All the tips and tools you need to realize the goal of balanced literacy learning. Students learn to read and write best when their teachers balance literacy instruction. Best-selling authors Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Nancy Akhavan help you strike the right balance of skills and knowledge, reading and writing, small and whole group instruction, and direct and dialogic instruction, so that all students can learn to their maximum potential. Using this essential guide, tap your intuition, collaborate with your peers, and put the research-based strategies embedded within to work in your classroom for a strong and successful balanced literacy program.
This is Balanced Literacy: Grades K-6 Students learn to read and write best when their teachers balance literacy instruction.
With 75 tasks on full-color pages, this book offers a literacy instruction plan that ensures students benefit from independent effort and engagement.
"The writers introduce a handful of instructional shifts offered from an invitational stance to help readers consider research beyond a one size fits all mentality and confront their own biases and misunderstandings as they explore ways ...
The strategy combines two previously researched fluency methods—the Neurological Impress Method (NIM) (Heckelman 1969, 277) and repeated readings (Samuels 1979, 757)—and essentially requires a more fluent reader to read aloud slightly ...
Word wall Speaking Assessment and Relevance Alone: Listening Learning songs and • Word family books Songs poems from • Read a new poem or rhyme Poems ... Social Studies Literacy, Grades 2–3* Source: Gregory & Kuzmich (2005a, p.
In this remarkable resource, Maria Walther shares two-page read-aloud experiences for 101 picture books that tune you into what to notice, say, and wonder in order to bolster students’ literacy exponentially.
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"In this book, structured literacy is conceptualized as an umbrella term encompassing a variety of intervention methods, instructional approaches, and commercial programs.
Cunningham, P. M., & Allington, R. L. (2007). Classrooms that work: They can all read and write (4th ed.). Boston: Allyn & Bacon. Cunningham, P. M., & Hall, D. P. (2001). Making words second grade: 100 hands-on lessons for phonemic ...
"In this book, structured literacy is conceptualized as an umbrella term encompassing a variety of intervention methods, instructional approaches, and commercial programs.