reading (elementary)

Contains seven units of study that provide teachers with lessons and techniques for helping children in first grade develop the ability to decode and understand a variety of texts.

In their follow-up to Reading Wellness, Jan Burkins and Kim Yaris explore how some traditional scaffolding practices may actually rob students of important learning opportunities and independence. Who s Doing the Work? suggests ways to make small but powerful adjustments to instruction that hold students accountable for their own learning.

Provides teachers in grades kindergarten through five with advice, strategies, and sample lessons designed to help their students move beyond leveled books and into more difficult materials; and discusses the uses and limitations of leveled books in kindergarten and first grade as well as how to organize a classroom library.

Presents a model for guided reading instruction that fits the 18-minute time frame, including strategies, processes, sequential practical lesson routines, and suggestions for selecting appropriate texts.

Offers twenty-six theme-based literature units for use in elementary classrooms--providing basic background information about each topic, providing a list of related themes, featuring suggestions for activities, and including annotated bibliographies.

Looks at what students can do to become better evaluators of themselves as readers and writers, and offers advice on how teachers can help them reach that goal.

An instructional guide for James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier's novel "My brother Sam is dead" that provides close reading tasks, text-based vocabulary practice, cross-curricular activities, text-dependent questions, reader response writing prompts, and more.

A little boy wishes so much he could whistle.

Lionel and Leona ride a train into a book called "Bringing the rain to Kapiti Plain," by Verna Aardema. Learn about African tales, the environment, problem solving and transportation. Featuring the "AI" as long "A" sound.