Educators across content areas have turned to Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning for almost two decades. This fully updated fourth edition delivers rich, practical, research-based strategies that readers have found invaluable in the context of today's classrooms. Doug has written all-new chapters that focus on the instructional shifts taking place as the Common Core State Standards are implemented across the United States. These introductory chapters will help you do the following: Understand the research base for comprehension strategies in content classrooms Learn how to tap into students' background knowledge to enhance comprehension of complex texts and build new knowledge Show learners how to question a text Teach reading and thinking through a disciplinary lens At the heart of this edition are more than forty classroom strategies, with variations and strategy indexes that identify the instructional focus of each strategy, pinpoint the text frames in play as students read and learn, and correlate students' comprehension processes across the phases of strategy implementation. In addition, each strategy is cross-referenced with the Common Core's reading, writing, speaking/listening, and language standards.
Provides middle school and high school educators with literacy development strategies that emphasize effective learning in content contexts
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 ...
In this revised second edition, Developing Readers in the Academic Disciplines shows how to help students adjust their thinking to comprehend a range of complex texts that fall outside their reading comfort zones.
Presents teaching strategies and procedures to help English language students build vocabulary and fluency.
This new edition has been updated to reflect recent changes in the K–12 classroom and includes the most current information to Meet the professional development requirementsof the No Child Left Behind Act Help struggling readers Implement ...
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The Interactive Classroom provides a framework for how to influence the learning process and increase student participation by sharing • Proven strategies for improving presentation and facilitation skills • Kinesthetic, interpersonal, ...
Students learn more—and with more joy—when lessons connect with their lives and interests while challenging them to stretch and grow. In this book, you'll find practical, ready-to-use strategies for creating active and exciting lessons.
This conveniently organized resource book reflects the latest, most exciting ideas in literature focus units, reading/writing workshop, and thematic instruction.
The activities in this book are extremely teacher friendly with little or no preparation necessary. The lessons are interactive so kids enjoy the up tempo nature of the activities. This is a book that I will use with my entire staff!