Exploring Literature is a complete teaching unit designed to give you everything needed to help students understand and appreciate fine literature. This exciting new approach includes classroom-tested activities sure to save you hours of valuable preparation time.
Think aloud as you read from a novel, a textbook, or any kind of book and watch your students become confident, fluent readers! With this simple, powerful technique, you can show students how you use strategies such as inferring, visualizing, and summarizing. Finally, students can "see" what good readers do and apply it to their own reading process. Think alouds are great for struggling readers, because they make reading an active, social experience. Includes engaging activities like Open Mind, Fish Bowl, Thought Bubbles, Post its, and more. For use with Grades 3-8.
Guide contains discussion questions, summaries, and chapter-by-chapter commentary. Section on "Beyond the Text" gives suggestions for projects that extend students' understanding of the novel. Guide also includes suggested essay questions for student writing assignments.
Exploring Literature is a complete teaching unit designed to give you everything needed to help students understand and appreciate fine literature. This exciting new approach includes classroom-tested activities sure to save you hours of valuable preparation time.
"Old MacDonald," "Wheels on the Bus," "This Old Man," and seven other favorite songs become springboards to lots of fun-filled learning! For each song, you'll find reproducibles and creative activities that help children develop oral language, strengthen phonemic awareness, attend to print, and build early writing skills. Includes pocket chart activities, collaborative books, picture cards, interactive mini-books, and more.
