Engaging the Past: Action and Interaction in the History Classroom provides practical steps toward using engaging strategies in the classroom to teach students to think historically. These strategies include an approach developed by the author called "The You Decide! Lecture," and innovative ways to use board games and role-playing games in the ......
Dialogic Reading with Integrated Vocabulary Enrichment
Anyone who reads with young children will benefit from this book designed to provide a fun, evidence-based approach to shared reading. Empowering Young Readers offers a straightforward approach for creating meaningful dialogues while reading as well as practical recommendations for getting the most out of your cherished reading experiences.
Dialogic Reading with Integrated Vocabulary Enrichment
Anyone who reads with young children will benefit from this book designed to provide a fun, evidence-based approach to shared reading. Empowering Young Readers offers a straightforward approach for creating meaningful dialogues while reading as well as practical recommendations for getting the most out of your cherished reading experiences.
This book provides classroom-tested methods for engaging struggling middle grade readers - even those who appear to have given up - and fostering their success. The emphasis is on constructing respectful, encouraging learning environments that incorporate students' diverse literacies, cultural interests, and prior knowledge and skills into ......
Sharing high-quality storybooks and nonfiction books not only is enjoyable for young children and teachers-it is also a powerful way to build crucial literacy skills. This engaging guide provides effective strategies for selecting books and using read-alouds to develop children's oral language, vocabulary, concepts of print, alphabet knowledge, ......
Building foundational whole-number knowledge can help put K-5 students on the path to academic success and career readiness. Filling a gap for school practitioners, this book presents step-by-step guidelines for designing and implementing classwide, small-group, and individual interventions for mathematics difficulties. Effective procedures for ......
For use with struggling readers in Grades 6-8, this book arms literacy teachers with the why and how of effective, evidence-based instruction. Includes more than 20 step-by-step sample lessons for strengthening fluency, comprehension, word recognition, and vocabulary. Reading problems don't disappear when students enter middle school-recent ......
Supporting Text-Based Comprehension and Communication Skills
This teacher-friendly guide is packed with motivating lessons designed to improve the content learning and literacy skills of English language learners (ELLs) in K-8. Offering research-supported strategies that teachers can implement immediately, the book explains how to use content-area texts to support ELLs' growth in five crucial areas: ......
