Robb, Laura

Explains differentiated reading instruction and covers teaching strategies, discussing whole-class reading, targeted support, student-centered journals, tiered assignments, and other related topics.

Provides information about assessment and evaluation in fourth through eighth grade reading classes, presents a reading strategy curriculum, and features thirty-five reproducible assessment and record-keeping forms.

The author presents her Strategic Reading Program for helping students develop independent reading behaviors and experience the pleasures of reading.

Presents a three-part framework for teaching students to read and comprehend nonfiction writing, and offers strategies for using that framework in the classroom and providing students with support as they learn.

Pigs, piglets, hogs, swine, sows, and boars inspired these hilarious poems by a variety of poets.

Describes a series of mini-lessons and activities designed to introduce vocabulary learning strategies to students in grades four through eight, each with photographs, samples of student work, and classroom dialogues.

A collection of more than two dozen poems written by Carl Sandburg, Lucille Clifton, Eve Merriam, and others which explores aspects of war and peace.