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"Focusing on the teacher-student connection, [the author] guides you to: effectively prioritize what matters most during remote, online instruction; schedule your day and your students' to maximize teaching and learning; streamline curricular units and roll them out digitally; record short lessons that students will learn from; confer, working with small groups, and drive learning through independent practice; partner with the adults in a student's home to support your work with their child. Features more than 55 step-by-step teaching strategies and videos, this book helps new teachers, teachers new to technology, or anyone who wants to better understand the essence of effective online instruction. Along the way, it addresses crucial topics including assessment and progress monitoring, student engagement and accountability, using anchor charts and visuals, getting books into students' hands, teaching subject-area content, and avoiding teacher burnout.

"This book's focus is on taking action in the world and making students better-prepared citizens"--Provided by publisher.

"This . . . collection of personal essays and humor from a longtime educator explores all the joys, challenges, and absurdities of being a teacher. [the author] did not want to be a teacher, but now, after twenty years of working with children from preschool to college, there's nothing she'd rather be. In essays full of humor, heart, and wit, she illuminates the highs and lows of a job located at the intersection of youth and wisdom. Bringing you into the trenches of this . . . important and stressful career, she rolls her eyes at ineffectual administrators, weeps with herstudents when they experience personal tragedies, complains with her colleagues about their ridiculously short lunchbreaks, and presents the parent-teacher conference fromthe other side of the tiny table"--Provided by.

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.