language arts

A teacher's guide to developing powerful readers and writers of informational text through project-based instruction.

Provides hands-on activities and practical strategies designed to help primary school teachers nurture literacy development while teaching essential content material in math, science, and social studies.

Provides step-by-step instructions for using guided oral reading in regular, remedial, and special education classrooms, explains the theory that supports the instructional strategy, and includes examples of literacy centers in which students can work independently or in groups while the teacher in working with other students.

"Strategies to help teachers examine their own educational spaces, start the school year in culturally relevent ways, build reciprocal relationships with families and communities, and teach within standards and testing mandates while challenging unjust systems"--Amazon.

Believing that enthusiastic read-aloud performances enhance a child's understanding and appreciation of a story, the author provides educators with methods and techniques used by experienced read-aloud performers and storytellers.

Escape rooms have become a major trend all over the country. The concept is simple: a group of people are trapped in a room and must solve a series of puzzles to find their way out. In Breaking into Breakout Boxes, educator Holly Johnson takes the same basic concept and applies it to the classroom. Breakout boxes are locked boxes the teacher provides. The entire class works together to discover the combination to the box. The combination can be gleaned from clues related to any number of education subjects. In this new guide, Johnson covers : how to build your box, how to write your own clues for the box, how to manage your classroom during the activity, what to place inside the box, what to do if the students do not solve the box in time, how to perform a "debriefing" after completing the exercise, and how to tailor your box to different content areas and learning styles. Breakout boxes can teach students the importance of problem-solving, working together, and perseverance in the face of any challenge. Through this fun activity, children will acquire skills that will help them for the rest of their lives!.

A teacher's guide to helping students learn to analyze literature and informational texts.

Provides step-by-step instructions for making collaboration and co-teaching work for general education teachers and English as a second language specialists to best meet the needs of English language learners, and includes six case studies, templates, self-assessments, and planning guides.

Shows how to help kindergarten through grade five students including English language learners, students with disabilities, and other challenged students to meet the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts (ELA), with outlines of specific skills, flexible teaching strategies, instructional tools, and guidance on collaborative teaching.

Contains step-by-step lessons and sample student-teacher dialogues teachers may use to help students in kindergarten through second grade develop real-life writing skills, and includes practice activities for each writing form, reproducible templates, ideas for differentiated instruction, and suggested book lists.