Focus: Elevating the Essentials to Radically Improve Student Learning
Bestselling author Mike Schmoker describes a plan for radically improving student learning that is built on three core elements: a focused and coherent curriculum (what we teach); clear, prioritized lessons (how we teach); and purposeful reading and writing, or authentic literacy. With this "less is more" philosophy, educators can help students learn content at a deeper level, develop greater critical thinking skills, and discover more clearly how content-area concepts affect their lives and the world around them.
This colourful, large-format book develops comprehension, vocabulary and fluency. It offers cross-curricular informational stories and poetry, supports content-area reading instruction, and contains visually motivating, easy-to-see pages.
