Allen, Janet

Explains how to teach language arts to students in grades 4-12 focusing on shared reading; covers such topics as strategic reading and comprehension, community knowledge and literature circles, vocabulary, modeled fluency, and personal, academic, and public writing.

Describes strategies for teaching literacy students grades 3-12, explaining how to create a literacy workshop, choose effective resources, keep records, help students set goals and assess progress, use various methods of group and independent reading and writing, and use techniques helpful for context-specific texts.

A practical guide that shows teachers how to help students understand the academic vocabulary found in textbooks and on tests and includes graphic organizers in both English and Spanish on a CD-ROM.

Chronicles the teaching experiences of Janet Allen, and gives suggestions for helping students who are considered "at risk" learn to like school and take an active role in creating their own curriculum.

A flip-book of twenty-five strategies for teaching content reading and writing, each with a brief description, an explantion of how and why the instructional tool would be used, graphic organizers and models, and a documented research base.

Instructions for stenciling, spatter printing, rubbing, potato printing, lino cutting, marbling, and other printing techniques, using paints, and inks for color.

Presents thirty-five stories, poems, speeches, magazine articles, memoirs, and other selections for teachers to read aloud to students in grades five and up, designed to provoke discussion and sharpen skills in comprehension, listening, and higher-level thinking skills.

Janny enjoys the special bond she has with her father as she helps him on his snowplow during a long, cold winter night.