Think aloud as you read from a novel, a textbook, or any other kind of book and watch your students become confident, fluent, readers! With this simple, powerful technique, you can show students how y
Picturing scenes, events, settings, characters, and ideas is essential to reading comprehension - but not all students know how to do it. In this amazing book, a noted educator shows teachers dozens o
Before reading, hand out lines of a poem and invite students to build an idea of what the poem will be about...invite two students to play good angel/bad angel for a book character...have students per
What makes a good relationship? How does flight influence behavior for humans and birds? Is it ever permissible to lie? Reframing our units and lessons with questions such as these makes learning mor
Support students before, during, and after reading with highly motivating activities that tap into kids' social nature and love of interaction. Deepens their understanding of texts, reading strategie
Think aloud as you read from a novel, a textbook, or any kind of book and watch your students become confident, fluent readers! With this simple, powerful technique, you can show students how you use
“General reading strategies and teacher-developed questions will only take our students so far—with our approach, students gain astounding independence because they engage directly with the nonfiction
"Why do boys embrace literate behaviors outside of school but reject them inside school?" "How can adolescents connect their outside-of-school literacy to school purposes?""How can we use the present
This guide for teachers provides lessons and units to help students meet Common Core Standards for writing narratives such as fictional stories, autobiographies, narrative nonfiction, literary journal
This book lays out a new vision for the teaching of English, building on themes central to Wilhelm's influential "You Gotta BE The Book." With portraits of teachers and students, as well as practical
Leave instruction to the experts!Uncommon Core puts us on high-alert about some outright dangerous misunderstandings looming around so-called “standards-aligned” instruction, then shows us how to ste
Smith et al., authors who help students use literacy to become active citizens, show teachers how to teach argument writing to middle and high school students, so they will exceed the Common Core Stat
Wilhelm et al., who help students use literacy to become active citizens, show educators how to teach the composition and reading of various types of informational texts (one of the three major types
Designed to introduce prospective English teachers to current methods of teaching literature in middle and high school classrooms, this popular textbook explores a variety of innovative approaches th
Examines current methods for teaching literature to middle and high school students, covering methods based on the social constructivist and socio-cultural theory of learning.
Bring new power and purpose to the study of literature with innovative tools and strategies that deepen students’ understanding of literary elements and help them apply that understanding to their rea
The authors consider what grammatical concepts and correctness issues are most worth teaching and how to teach those concepts and issues deeply. They explain how to understand the causes of student
Based on interviews and observations with a diverse group of 49 young men, this book describes their motivations and applies this understanding to the teaching of literacy skills. It identifies the s
Glencoe Literature is a series covering grades 6-12 and World Literature. It contains a comprehensive collection of outstanding literature and connected, relevant nonfiction. Throughout the program, t
