language arts

A guide for grade 9-12 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 to teaching the Common Core State Standards for English language arts grades 6-8.

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.

Writing is an important skill that kids use almost every day. The goal of the Write it Right series is to make kids writing experts. Writing About Your Adventure is full of tips and tricks to help kids write a personal narrative, from organizing the events to adding details. This book includes a table of contents, glossary, index, author biography, activities, and instructions.

Describes strategies for teaching vocabulary in grades six through twelve, covering morphemic structure, conceptual meaning makers, and academic vocabulary and providing activities.

". . . reviews core elements of [English Language Arts] instruction--response to literature, classroom discussion, research, and digital literacy--and demonstrates how to adapt these activities to foster critical thinking and empathetic perspectives among students. Chapters depict teachers and students engaging in this transformative learning, offer strategies for the classroom, and pose questions to guide school communities in collaborative reflection"--Provided by publisher.

"Dave R. Stuart Jr.'s work is centered on a simple belief: all students and teachers can flourish. Yet that seemingly simple goal can feel unattainable when teachers are expected to teach core content within the disciplines and improve literacy in their classrooms. How can teachers and students flourish under so much pressure? Stuart's advice: Take a deep breath and refocus on six known best practices- establish and strengthen key beliefs, then build knowledge and increase reading, writing, speaking and listening, and argumentation in every content area, every day"--Back cover.

Describes a basic approach to learning through writing in content areas, with ideas about how to frame and focus various types of writing tasks and their components; and addresses different genres and reviews the writing process as used in subjects other than English.

"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.