| Author | : Rosemary Wells |
| Publisher | : Dial |
| Total Pages | : 32 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Seasons |
| ISBN | : 9780803713017 |
A child explores the senses by reflecting on experiences associated with the seasons.
Reading with Meaning
| Author | : Debbie Miller |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 2023-10-10 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1003844111 |
Ten years since her first edition, author Debbie Miller returns with Reading with Meaning, Second Edition: Teaching Comprehension in the Primary Grades to share her new thinking about reading comprehension strategy instruction, the gradual release of responsibility instructional model, and planning for student engagement and independence.Reading with Meaning , Second Edition delves into strategy and how intentional teaching and guided practice can provide each child a full year of growth during their classroom year. New in this edition are lesson planning documents for each chapter that include guiding questions, learning targets, and summative assessments, as well as new book title recommendations and updated FAQ's from the first edition.Also included are strategic lessons for inferring, determining the importance in each text, and synthesizing information. Teachers can help students make their thinking visible through oral, written, artistic, and dramatic responses and provide examples on how to connect what they read to their own lives.In this book, Miller reflects on her professional experiences and judgement along withcurrent research in the field. She provides a guide for any teacher hoping to build student relationships and develop lifelong independent learners.
What Color Is Night?
| Author | : Grant Snider |
| Publisher | : Chronicle Books |
| Total Pages | : 49 |
| Release | : 2019-11-05 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1452183570 |
Look closer. Grant Snider's beautiful debut picture book explores the wonders—and colors—of nighttime. For night is not just black and white. Ending in colors yet unseen, and a night of sweet dreams, this lilting lullaby is sure to comfort those drifting off to sleep. With luminous art as spare and glowing as the moon, and lyrical text that reads like a friend leading the way through the wilderness, What Color Is Night? is a rich and timeless look at a topic of endless fascination, and a perfect bedtime read-aloud.
Night Sounds
| Author | : Sam Taplin |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2023-09-05 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781805318170 |
Discover the magic of the night in this enchanting sound book. Little children will love listening to sleeping cats purring, owls twit-twooing and bats squeaking when they press the sound buttons on the pages of this beautifully illustrated book. There's a simple story to read aloud, holes to peek through and fingertrails to explore, too.
Learning That Never Ends
| Author | : Margie Pearse |
| Publisher | : R&L Education |
| Total Pages | : 261 |
| Release | : 2013-09-20 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1475805322 |
Creating lifelong learners is ideally what we, as teachers, desire for all students. We understand the values and rewards that come from acquiring a thirst for knowledge. Wanting children to see learning as a valuable tool is easy, but knowing how to instill that love, now that is a different story. That story is presented here, in easy-to-understand text and ideas, to guide students through the concepts of lifelong learning. Learning That Never Ends demystifies the concept of lifelong learning in a way that makes it easy and accessible for all. This work literally levels the playing field for any and all students to find success in life. Every idea, every tool provided comes from fifteen years of research and experimentation across socioeconomic levels and subject areas from elementary to college, in hundreds of classrooms. With the ideas from this book, you can empower all students with the qualities of a lifelong learner.
A to Zoo
| Author | : Rebecca L. Thomas |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 3583 |
| Release | : 2018-06-21 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : |
Whether used for thematic story times, program and curriculum planning, readers' advisory, or collection development, this updated edition of the well-known companion makes finding the right picture books for your library a breeze. Generations of savvy librarians and educators have relied on this detailed subject guide to children's picture books for all aspects of children's services, and this new edition does not disappoint. Covering more than 18,000 books published through 2017, it empowers users to identify current and classic titles on topics ranging from apples to zebras. Organized simply, with a subject guide that categorizes subjects by theme and topic and subject headings arranged alphabetically, this reference applies more than 1,200 intuitive (as opposed to formal catalog) subject terms to children's picture books, making it both a comprehensive and user-friendly resource that is accessible to parents and teachers as well as librarians. It can be used to identify titles to fill in gaps in library collections, to find books on particular topics for young readers, to help teachers locate titles to support lessons, or to design thematic programs and story times. Title and illustrator indexes, in addition to a bibliographic guide arranged alphabetically by author name, further extend access to titles.
Teaching the Common Core Literature Standards in Grades 2-5
| Author | : Lisa Morris |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 222 |
| Release | : 2015-07-16 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1317517245 |
Shifting your literature instruction to meet the Common Core can be tricky. The standards are specific about how students should analyze characters, themes, point of view, and more. In this new book, Lisa Morris makes it easy by taking you through the standards and offering tons of practical strategies, tools, and mentor texts for grades 2-5. She shows you how to combine the standards into effective units of study so that you can teach with depth rather than worry about coverage. Topics covered include: Teaching questioning, inferring, and author’s purpose; Guiding readers to look at themes and write summaries; Showing students how to recognize structural elements of literature; Teaching the craft of writing and vocabulary development; and Helping students analyse characters and character development. Throughout this highly practical book, you’ll find a variety of charts and other graphic organizers that can be easily adapted for classroom use. A list of suggested mentor texts is also available as a free eResource from our website, www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138856172.
The Simple 6TM for Beginning Writers
| Author | : Kay Davidson |
| Publisher | : Pieces of Learning |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1931334978 |
Linking Language
| Author | : Robert E. Rockwell |
| Publisher | : Gryphon House, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 9780876592021 |
Everyday ways to connect language and literacy to the daily curriculum.
