Teaching students to become effective readers is an important goal of the compulsory years of schooling. It involves extending student's vocabularies and knowledge of the world, developing their knowledge of English grammar and their decoding skills, developing their reading fluency and extending their ability to comprehend what they read and view from the literal level to the inferential and critical levels.
The New Oxford Picture Dictionary: Teacher's Guide
The New Picture Dictionary and its components provide a complete, four-skills language development program. The program is: * Practical - a wide range of topics introduce new words in their most common context. * Easy to use - vocabulary items are presented without ambiguity or the need for translation. * Versatile - the Dictionary itself and its components have unlimited applications. * Flexible - the Dictionary can be used alone or with its components.
Responsive Literacy Coaching - Tools for Creating and Sustaining Purposeful Change
In Responsive Literacy Coaching, Cheryl Dozier draws on twenty-four years of experience as an elementary classroom teacher and teacher educator to present both a theoretical framework and practical tools to enact responsive literacy coaching. Through thoughtful and purposeful coaching, teachers learn effective ways to improve literacy instruction and student achievement.
Quality Research in Literacy and Science Education - International Perspectives and Gold Standards
This book addresses implications for "Gold Standards" of education research especially in science education and literacy. These standards are meant to provide evidence-based educational outcomes found effective in randomized controlled trials, following patterns of evidence used in medical research. Similar expectations have emerged in other countries from education ministries, for researchers working with U.S. colleagues, and for researchers with multinational and non-profit support.
Every Book Is a Social Studies Book - How to Meet Standards with Picture Books, K-6
In order for today's children to succeed as adults, they need a solid foundation of life skills inculcated at a young age. Social studies is key to building this critical knowledge, yet less attention is being paid to social studies in elementary schools as this subject becomes more essential. The authors of this text have a solution: use picture books as dual-purpose texts that fulfill more than just language arts needs, and take the time dedicated to those lessons to simultaneously teach social studies.
