language arts

How do you teach the cognitive and personal skills students need for success in school and the world beyond? Anchored in standards shared by a range of national literacy documents, these lessons focus on the core academic skills- reading, writing, speaking and listening, taking notes, taking tests, and managing oneself - required to succeed on class, on state tests and college entrance exams, and in future endeavors.

Offers concise overviews of the relevant learning moality, tools, and strategies used in middle grades education today.

A companion workbook that contains 100 activities to help students improve their skills in such areas as phonological awareness, comprehension, letter recognition, math, spelling and compostion, vocabulary and fluency.

Bring the science of reading directly into the classroom! Developed for Grades 1-2, this resource offers teachers dynamic, research-based strategies to build students' reading and writing skills.

"Bring the science of reading directly into the classroom! Developed for Grades PK-K, this resource provides teachers with . . . strategies to develop students' foundational literacy skills. This book offers . . . lessons and methods to give young learners practice with phonological awareness, letter recognition, comprehension, content knowledge, and emergent writing. With the practical guidance and research-based instructional strategies in this book, early childhood teachers can make reading and writing fun, meaningful, and effective! This resource is correlated to College and Career Readiness and other state standards" -- Publisher.

Based on the book, Word matters, the authors present the essentials of learning about letters, sounds, and words in the context of a high-quality literacy program. Contents: Phonics & spelling lessons (44:54) -- Buddy study system (32:18).

"Explains the intertwined skills and processes involved in writing well: transcription, writing craft, critical thinking, syntax, and text structure. . . . This book provides the knowledge and resources educators need to help students master writing"--Provided by publisher.

Josh Willet is a techie, a serious gamer. Which is why Josh and his friends can't stand Mr. N's ELA class; it's a strict no-tech zone. Mr. N makes them write everything out by hand, he won't use a Smartboard, and he's obsessed with some hundred-year-old grammar book. Then Josh discovers a secret; turns out Mr. N's been keeping a lot more than technology from his students! Together with his best friend Vanessa, and using all the computer skills they've got, Josh is determined to solve the mystery of Mr. N's past. And maybe get some screentime back, too?.

Examines the philosophies and practices of the American education system, arguing that low student test scores result from a mistaken emphasis at the elementary level on context-free reading skills and strategies rather than content-rich curricula that give students knowledge about the world.

"In More Ramped-Up Read Alouds, educators will discover practical ideas for ramping up interactive read alouds to increase learners' language comprehension and build their knowledge about a wide variety of topics. The introduction details research-proven reasons that reading aloud is essential for literacy learners and shares success factors for creating engaging read-aloud experiences. With that foundational knowledge in place, readers will be able to choose from 50 read-aloud experiences, fully detailed and carefully designed to enrich and extend literacy instruction in grades K-5"--Provided by publisher.