August 22nd, 2010
Category: How to Read (BOOKS)
Tags: Grades, Guide, Improving, Literacy, Programs, Reading, ResearchBased, Resource
Product Description
Early reading and literacy have become the focus of policymakers, with a renewed emphasis on the early grades. In this essential new resource, authors and educational specialists provide a unique guide to today’s most important and most effective research-based reading programs. The book’s in-depth coverage analyzes and compares features, frameworks, tools, methods, outcomes, and reform components for 17 major reading programs:
- Early Intervention in Reading
- Early Steps
- Reading Recovery
- First Steps
- Four Blocks
- Literacy Collaborative
- Waterford Early Reading Program
- Readers’ and Writers’ Workshops
- Teacher Inquiry
- Accelerated Schools Project
- ATLAS Communities
- Modern Red Schoolhouse
- Yale School Development Program
- America’s Choice
- Different Ways…
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August 6th, 2010
Category: Books
Tags: Activities, Child, Early, Ensures, Every, Fast, Literacy, poems, Program, Readers, Reading, Reproducible, ResearchBased, SendHome, Start, Success
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This simple, research-proven early intervention program builds reading proficiency, word recognition, and overall comprehension. Ten minutes each night, parents and children engage in repeated, guided reading of poems just right for early readers, then do a quick, skill-building activity. Plus, 30 stickers, tips on involving families, and reproducible family letters, certificates, bookmarks, and reading logs!
Fast Start For Early Readers: A Research-Based, Send-Home Literacy Program With 60 Reproducible Poems and Activities That Ensures Reading Success for Every Child
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July 18th, 2010
Category: Books
Tags: English, Goals, Language, Learners, Meet, reach, ResearchBased, Standards, Strategies
Product Description
As a teacher, you know that two of the biggest issues in education today are increased accountability and surging ELL enrollments. So what do you do when every student in your class is expected to meet standards, but some don’t speak English? You reach for Research-Based Strategies for English Language Learners. It features ways to support all students while meeting curricular mandates-and without losing any precious planning or teaching time.
Research-Based Strategies for English Language Learners addresses standards through four proven, effective scaffolds for learning: modeling, contextualizing, thinking about thinking, and reframing information. Within each scaffold Denise Rea and Sandra Mercuri…
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July 11th, 2010
Category: Books
Tags: leadership, Literacy, Practice, PreK3, ResearchBased
Product Description
A Joint Publication With the American Association of School Administrators
This groundbreaking text compiles 20 years’ worth of research to prove the crucial role principals and administrators play in the development of successful literacy instruction.
Leadership for Literacy: Research-Based Practice, PreK-3
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May 27th, 2010
Category: Books
Tags: Comprehension, Content, English, Help, Language, Learn, Learners, Materials, Nonfiction, Read, Reading, really, ResearchBased, Strategies, Students, Understand
- ISBN13: 9780439554282
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
With this collection of research-based—and practical—strategies, mainstream classroom teachers can help ease the academic challenges English language learners often face by harnessing the opportunities provided by learning language in a meaningful context. Each strategy lesson identifies the level for which it is best suited and the TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) Goals and Standards it meets, as well as key supporting research, questions to prompt reflection, and more.
Comprehension Strategies for English Language Learners: 30 Research-Based Reading Strategies That Help Students Read, Understand, and Really Learn Content…
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February 8th, 2010
Category: Books
Tags: at, English, english language learners, ESL, Guide, Instruction, Language, Learners, Literacy, literacy instruction for english language learners, literacy instruction for english language learners: a teacher's, literacy skills, Practices, ResearchBased, Teachers
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Teaching English Language Learners to read and write is challenging. Every classroom teacher, ESL teacher, and reading specialist shares this crucial responsibility. These educators need research-based practices to help them meet the challenge, and Literacy Instruction for English Language Learners is their comprehensive guide.
Literacy Instruction for English Language Learners is for everyone who teaches English language learners to read and write. It turns important research findings about ELL students into evidence-based, effective classroom practice. It helps teachers:
- learn more about the ELL students in their classroom
- support the emergence and early development of English literacy skills in nonnative speakers…
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December 15th, 2009
Category: Books
Tags: Adolescents, at, Comprehension, differentiated instruction, digital literacy, english language learners, Instruction, Literacy, Practice, ResearchBased, Translate
- ISBN13: 9781606231180
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Thorough and accessible, this professional resource and text shows how the latest research in adolescent literacy can be translated into effective practice in middle and high school classrooms. Leading authorities discuss findings on the adolescent learner, addressing such essential topics as comprehension, content-area literacy, differentiated instruction, gender differences in literacy learning, and English language learners. With a focus on evidence-based methods, coverage ranges from techniques for building digital literacy and comprehension skills to strategies for flexible grouping and writing instruction. Ideal for courses in adolescent literacy, each chapter includes guiding…
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