Creative Teaching: Ideas to Boost Student Interest
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Tap into hidden creativity, engage students in the learning process, and foster creative thinking and expression with innovative techniques based on Downing's research and experience. Some 75 activities that allow users to practice skills as they acquire them are accompanied by dozens of sample lessons and numerous tips for getting started and avoiding pitfalls. Imaginary excursions, choice mapping, Socratic seminars, storytelling, question stringing, scripted interviews, ensemble reading-and more-any educator can use these techniques. Grades K-12.
Added by: Anonymous | Karma: | Coursebooks, Only for teachers, Kids | 25 November 2013
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Let your students' success build on success! Use these phonetically controlled stories to help students thoroughly learn, practice, and apply phonics-independently and with growing confidence.
Features • Features 140 Readers of about the same difficulty (10 in each set). • Gives students a sense of accomplishment in completing an entire book in 8 pages. • Provides decoding practice, application with a phonetically controlled vocabulary. • Checks comprehension with a sequencing activity at the back of each book.
Pairing Fiction & Nonfiction: Strategies to Build Comprehension in the Content Areas
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Pairing Fiction & Nonfiction: Strategies to Build Comprehension in the Content Areas
Reading expert Deanne Camp shows how matching two high-interest books—one fiction and one nonfiction—on the same topic can boost students’ engagement and comprehension in any subject area. This resource provides 15 comprehension strategy lessons for building background knowledge, learning vocabulary, summarizing, asking critical-thinking questions, and more.
This volume focuses on the new Guided Comprehension Model for English learners. It provides a research base, a new take on the classic Guided Comprehension Model, and everything you need to teach Guided Comprehension to your English learners. There are numerous new ideas for teaching ELs using the Model, 12 new theme-based lessons for teaching English learners, teacher commentaries, think-alouds, planning forms and reproducibles, lists of related trade books in multiple languages, websites, connections to the WIDA Standards, the TESOL Standards, the Common Core State Standards, and much more.