teaching

Contains a comprehensive guide intended to assist educators in designing and implementing a portfolio that effectively collects and documents important data relative to the administration of the school.

Presents over one hundred research and instructional strategies that have proven to be successful in the classroom, designed to meet the needs of students with diverse aptitudes and interests.

"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 teachers with visualization strategies, focusing on how to teach students to picture scenes, events, setting, characters, and ideas.

A teacher's guide to the art of reading aloud that features a list of picture books along with step-by-step lessons, tips, and links to an online resource bank that contains videos, graphic organizers, and downloadables for students.

Provides a step-by-step guide to implementing reading instruction in the classroom, and contains thirty reproducible short texts along with assessments, reading strategies, and literacy instruction.

Contains twenty five units, with samples, guidelines, checklists, and activities, for implementing Robert J. Marzano's theory on effective teaching, covering helping students interact with knowledge and generate and test hypotheses, engaging students, establishing and maintaining classroom rules and procedures, communicating high expectations, and other related topics.

Reveals seven simple teaching strategies that can help teachers effectively manage their time, improve classroom participation, and engage their students in learning.

Provides teaching strategies for improving student performance by awarding their improvement and not ability.