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Revisit, Reflect, Retell: Strategies for Improving Reading Comprehension
How can we be certain that students are making sense of print? What can we do to improve comprehension? Linda Hoyt, a reading specialist and staff developer, is convinced that thoughtful reflection and retelling are the keys. When readers reflect upon and retell what they know about a text, they experience deeper levels of understanding and increased communicative competency. This highly practical collection of more than 130 strategies and 90 reproducibles is the perfect resource for any teacher attempting to evoke high-quality responses to literature. It provides a detailed look at why to respond to text, when to respond to text, and how readers might be invited to respond in authentic ways. All of the strategies are classroom tested, and the blackline masters offer powerful incentives for creative interactions. Each chapter is loaded with assessment tools for teachers, student self-reflection forms, observation guides, and parent activities that are ready for immediate use. You and your students will laugh together in Game Show, explore graphophonic understandings through Alphaboxes and AlphaAntics, engage in inferential reasoning with V.I.P., and stretch your understanding with Interactive Journals. Revisit, Reflect, Retell is firmly grounded in constructivist reading theory, offering support across a range of genres and learning styles. Teachers will find it a valuable resource for creating meaningful and authentic learning experiences. The book will be equally useful as a workshop manual, discussion starter for teacher study groups, and support for staff developers..
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Leads & Endings: Lessons, Strategies, Models, and Literature Connections That Help You Teach and Revisit These Important Craft Elements All Year Long (Teaching the Craft of Writing)
This concise and thoughtful guide offers lessons and strategies for creating powerful leads and memorable endings. Drawing on quality children’s literature, Kathleen Hurni-Dove shows how to use exemplars to inspire students and show them the variety of possibilities for leads and endings, which helps students move beyond Hi my name is ________ and The End. An essential resource for any writing teacher. .
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Rereadings: Seventeen writers revisit books they love
Is a book the same book—or a reader the same reader—the second time around? The seventeen authors in this witty and poignant collection of essays all agree on the answer: Never. The editor of Rereadings is Anne Fadiman, and readers of her bestselling book Ex Libris will find this volume especially satisfying. Her chosen authors include Sven Birkerts, Allegra Goodman, Vivian Gornick, Patricia Hampl, Phillip Lopate, and Luc Sante; the objects of their literary affections range from Pride and Prejudice to Sue Barton, Student Nurse. These essays are not conventional literary criticism; they are about relationships. Rereadings reveals at least as much about the reader as about the book: each is a miniature memoir that focuses on that most interesting of topics, the protean nature of love. And as every bibliophile knows, no love is more life-changing than the love of a book. .
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Voice: Lessons, Strategies, Models, and Literature Connections That Help You Teach and Revisit This Important Craft Element All Year Long (Teaching the Craft of Writing)
In this concise and thoughtful guide, expert teacher and veteran author Lola Schaefer offers classroom-tested lessons and practical strategies that help students identify voice in writing and learn how to include it in their own work. Students find their voices through quickwrites, author studies, guided revision practice, compare-and-contrast exercises, and more. Complete with fiction and nonfiction models, student samples, conference transcripts, and classroom vignettes, this is an essential resource for any writing teacher. .
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Revising & Editing: Lessons, Strategies, Models, and Literature Connections That Help You Teach and Revisit These Important Craft Elements All Year Long (Teaching the Craft of Writing)
A concise and thoughtful guide that shows teachers how to introduce, teach, and reinforce revision and editing practices. Includes a kick-off lesson, classroom-tested revision strategies that enrich students’ writing, and editing techniques that help students polish their work. Covers peer response, interactive editing, using proofreading marks, and much more. An essential resource for any writing teacher. .
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Ideas: Lessons, Strategies, Models, and Literature Connections That Help You Teach and Revisit This Important Craft Element All Year Long (Teaching the Craft of Writing)
A concise and thoughtful guide that helps teachers get students to generate meaningful writing ideas. Veteran teacher and children’s book author Lola Schaefer demonstrates how to help students find ideas that matter—in everyday life, in books, through careful observation, by wondering about the world, and by sketching images and taking photographs, among other strategies. An essential resource for any writing teacher. .
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Elaboration: Lessons, Strategies, Models, and Literature Connections That Help You Teach and Revisit This Important Craft Element All Year Long (Teaching the Craft of Writing)
In this concise and thoughtful guide, veteran teacher and children’s author Lola Schaefer offers classroom-tested strategies that help students elaborate effectively. Lessons on choosing precise nouns and verbs, developing an extensive vocabulary, creating powerful comparisons, questioning the writing, and showing emotions through action help students enrich their writing. An essential resource for any writing teacher. .
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Organization: Lessons, Strategies, Models, and Literature Connections That Help You Teach and Revisit This Important Craft Element All Year Long (Teaching the Craft of Writing)
A concise and thoughtful guide that shows teachers how to introduce, teach, and reinforce organizational strategies. Includes lessons on planning and organizing personal narratives, fiction, poetry, and information writing. Full of model plans, student samples, conference transcripts, and classroom vignettes, this resource will keep the topic of organization fresh and alive all year long. .
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