language arts (elementary)

A guide for grade 3-5 teachers on integrating the CCSS for English language arts into their instruction, curriculum assessment, and intervention practices, and includes a model on how to use CCSS with Professional Learning Communities at Work.

A guide for grade K-2 teachers on integrating the CCSS for English language arts into their instruction, curriculum assessment, and intervention practices, and includes a model on how to use CCSS with Professional Learning Communities at Work.

"Fluency expert Timothy V. Rasinski teams up with Melissa Cheesman Smith, a veteran fifth grade teacher, to help teachers . . . weave fluency work into their daily reading instruction. The book is packed with . . . text and tools, an assessment scale, and . . . ready-to-use lessons including text phrasing and tonality, echo reading, word ladders, and more! Given the importance of fluency and its . . . relationship to comprehension and word recognition the potential is high for improving students overall reading achievement, and their performance in other content areas"--Amazon.com.

A teacher's guide to developing powerful readers and writers of informational text through project-based instruction.

Provides hands-on activities and practical strategies designed to help primary school teachers nurture literacy development while teaching essential content material in math, science, and social studies.

Provides step-by-step instructions for using guided oral reading in regular, remedial, and special education classrooms, explains the theory that supports the instructional strategy, and includes examples of literacy centers in which students can work independently or in groups while the teacher in working with other students.

Shows how to help kindergarten through grade five students including English language learners, students with disabilities, and other challenged students to meet the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts (ELA), with outlines of specific skills, flexible teaching strategies, instructional tools, and guidance on collaborative teaching.