One of the most effective ways to implement the research-based instructional strategies from Classroom Instruction That Works is to use them with educational technologies, such as word processing and spreadsheet applications, multimedia and the Internet. This book shows you how and gives you hundreds of lesson-planning ideas and strategies for every grade level and subject. Getting this guide ensures you always know when to use educational technologies, which ones are best for a learning task, and how they help students use new learning strategies.
What works in education? How do we know? How can teachers find out? How can educational research find its way into the classroom? How can we apply it to help our individual students? Questions like these arise in most schools, and busy educators often don't have time to find the answers.
This new book, Processing Instruction: Theory, Research, and Commentary, edited by Bill VanPatten--a pioneer in processing instruction (PI)--is a refreshing presentation of 10 related and not widely available articles that illustrate the role of processing instruction in second language acquisition. The articles provide both historical and current context, as well as describe the influence of the input processing model on PI.
Houghton Mifflin Leveled Nonfiction Readers provide the right leveled reader for every student. Whether they are used to complement the core program or as the main materials in daily instruction, these collections help meet all learning needs in the classroom by building fluency and independence for every student, extending key themes and concepts across curriculum areas, providing practice and the application of skills and strategies, supporting small-group instruction, and meeting state standards.
19 Leveled Nonfiction Readers added by Fruchtzwerg
