Teaching strategies

Contain sixteen three-minute reading assessments teachers may use to determine student abilities in word recognition, fluency rate and expression, and comprehension, each consisting of a brief reading passage and a grading form. Includes four passages per grade, from first to fourth.

Presents surveys, questionnaires, and checklists designed to help teachers identify their students' strengths and includes activities to help build left-brain, right-brain, and middle-brain thinking skills.

Provides an explanation of phonics, a method of reading instruction that focuses on the relationship between sounds and their spellings, and features over one hundred activities for the classroom, as well as sample lessons, word lists, and teaching strategies.

Presents reproducible activity sheets for the third through sixth grade reading classroom that helps to develop students' comprehension, vocabulary, and writing skills.

Outlines the different reading strategies that can take place in the classroom, suggests effective management techniques for using trade books, and offers tips on integrating trade books into the curriculum and evaluating their use.

Presents a series of reproducible poems, each with suggestions for reading and discussing the work, and a selection of writing activities; grouped in the categories of rhyming and non-rhyming poems.

Presents more than fifty reproducible graphic organizers for teaching the building blocks of writing, nonfiction writing, narrative and memoir writing, and writing formats, providing three organizers at different levels--introductory, intermediate, and challenging--for each writing objective.

Contains lesson ideas which use poems, picture books, games, and writing activities to teach students in grades three through six about grammar and writing.

Teachers of grades kindergarten through five present color photos of elements of their classrooms, describing more than two hundred tools and strategies they have developed for classroom organization; daily routines and procedures; reading, writing, math, poetry, and art learning environments; and behavior management.

Presents twenty-five reproducible prewriting graphic organizers and planning sheets for grades three through five covering such topics as cause and effect, compare and contrast, role-play, imaging, and story maps.