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Unpacking Complexity in Informational Texts

Author : Sunday Cummins
Publisher : Guilford Publications
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781462518593

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To acquire content knowledge through reading, students must understand the complex components and diverse purposes of informational texts, as emphasized in the Common Core State Standards. This practical book illuminates the ways in which a text's purpose, structure, details, connective language, and construction of themes combine to create meaning. Classroom-tested instructional recommendations and kid-friendly explanations guide teachers in helping students to identify and understand the role of these elements in different types of informational texts. Numerous student work samples, excerpts from exemplary books and articles, and a Study Guide with discussion questions and activities for professional learning add to the book's utility. This is a valuable guide for teachers in grades 2-8, academic coaches, site administrators, and curriculum directors implementing the Common Core standards to increase the rigor and level of reading in all content areas. Instructional strategies, sample lessons, anchor charts, examples of student work, and interactive templates are provided in each chapter.Teachers and those engaging in professional development can use this book to support their efforts to plan lessons that require students to engage with text, think critically, discuss their understanding, and write about information embedded in complex informational text.--Lori Greenwood, MA, Educational Leadership Director of Curriculum, Instruction, and Special Education, Plumas Lake Elementary School District, Plumas Lake, CA

Unpacking Complexity in Informational Texts

Author : Sunday Cummins
Publisher : Guilford Publications
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781462518654

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Unpacking Complexity in Informational Texts by Sunday Cummins Pdf

To acquire content knowledge through reading, students must understand the complex components and diverse purposes of informational texts, as emphasized in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). This practical book illuminates the ways in which a text’s purpose, structure, details, connective language, and construction of themes combine to create meaning. Classroom-tested instructional recommendations and "kid-friendly" explanations guide teachers in helping students to identify and understand the role of these elements in different types of informational texts. Numerous student work samples, excerpts from exemplary books and articles, and a Study Guide with discussion questions and activities for professional learning add to the book’s utility.

What's New in Literacy Teaching?

Author : Karen Wood,Jeanne Paratore,Brian Kissel,Rachel McCormack
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807775752

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What's New in Literacy Teaching? by Karen Wood,Jeanne Paratore,Brian Kissel,Rachel McCormack Pdf

Reissue of ILA bestseller. In this e-book, well-known literacy scholars share practical ways to engage and challenge today’s students. Key topics covered include text complexity, vocabulary instruction, reading interventions, digital tools, critical literacy, and self-regulation. User-friendly chapters include enhanced content: classroom scenarios, transcripts, photo essays, links to videos, and screen shots of online strategies. “Insightful and thought-provoking, What’s New in Literacy Teaching? is a must-have resource that belongs in the hands of administrators, curriculum coordinators, preservice teachers, experienced teachers, and literacy coaches who want to see how theory and research can be transformed into practical and innovative instruction to engage and challenge today's students.” —Patricia A. Edwards, Michigan State University “Written by outstanding scholars, this is a must-read for all those engaged in literacy development.” —Lesley Mandel Morrow, distinguished professor, Rutgers University Contributors include P. David Pearson, Camille L. Z. Blachowicz, Julie Coiro, Peter Afflerbach, Jane Hansen, Diane Lapp, Elfreida H. Heibert.

Teaching and Researching Reading

Author : William Grabe,Fredricka L. Stoller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317536420

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Teaching and Researching Reading by William Grabe,Fredricka L. Stoller Pdf

Now in its third edition, Teaching and Researching Reading charts the field of reading (first and second language) systematically and coherently for the benefit of language teaching practitioners, students, and researchers. This volume provides background on how reading works and how reading differs for second language learners. The volume includes reading-curriculum principles, evidence-based teaching ideas, and a multi-step iterative process for conducting meaningful action research on reading-related topics. The volume outlines 14 projects for teacher adaptation and use, as well as numerous new and substantially expanded resource materials that can be used for both action research and classroom instruction.

Close Reading of Informational Texts

Author : Sunday Cummins
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781462507870

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Close Reading of Informational Texts by Sunday Cummins Pdf

This book has been replaced by Close Reading of Informational Sources, Second Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-3945-1.

Long Way Down

Author : Jason Reynolds
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781481438278

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“An intense snapshot of the chain reaction caused by pulling a trigger.” —Booklist (starred review) “Astonishing.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “A tour de force.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) A Newbery Honor Book A Coretta Scott King Honor Book A Printz Honor Book A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021) A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner for Young Adult Literature Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature Winner of the Walter Dean Myers Award An Edgar Award Winner for Best Young Adult Fiction Parents’ Choice Gold Award Winner An Entertainment Weekly Best YA Book of 2017 A Vulture Best YA Book of 2017 A Buzzfeed Best YA Book of 2017 An ode to Put the Damn Guns Down, this is New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds’s electrifying novel that takes place in sixty potent seconds—the time it takes a kid to decide whether or not he’s going to murder the guy who killed his brother. A cannon. A strap. A piece. A biscuit. A burner. A heater. A chopper. A gat. A hammer A tool for RULE Or, you can call it a gun. That’s what fifteen-year-old Will has shoved in the back waistband of his jeans. See, his brother Shawn was just murdered. And Will knows the rules. No crying. No snitching. Revenge. That’s where Will’s now heading, with that gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, the gun that was his brother’s gun. He gets on the elevator, seventh floor, stoked. He knows who he’s after. Or does he? As the elevator stops on the sixth floor, on comes Buck. Buck, Will finds out, is who gave Shawn the gun before Will took the gun. Buck tells Will to check that the gun is even loaded. And that’s when Will sees that one bullet is missing. And the only one who could have fired Shawn’s gun was Shawn. Huh. Will didn’t know that Shawn had ever actually USED his gun. Bigger huh. BUCK IS DEAD. But Buck’s in the elevator? Just as Will’s trying to think this through, the door to the next floor opens. A teenage girl gets on, waves away the smoke from Dead Buck’s cigarette. Will doesn’t know her, but she knew him. Knew. When they were eight. And stray bullets had cut through the playground, and Will had tried to cover her, but she was hit anyway, and so what she wants to know, on that fifth floor elevator stop, is, what if Will, Will with the gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, MISSES. And so it goes, the whole long way down, as the elevator stops on each floor, and at each stop someone connected to his brother gets on to give Will a piece to a bigger story than the one he thinks he knows. A story that might never know an END…if Will gets off that elevator. Told in short, fierce staccato narrative verse, Long Way Down is a fast and furious, dazzlingly brilliant look at teenage gun violence, as could only be told by Jason Reynolds.

Text Complexity

Author : Douglas Fisher,Nancy Frey,Diane Lapp
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781506343976

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There is a big difference between assigning complex texts and teaching complex texts No matter what discipline you teach, learn how to use complexity as a dynamic, powerful tool for sliding the right text in front of your students’ at just the right time. Updates to this new edition include How-to’s for measuring countable features of any written work A rubric for analyzing the complexity of both literary and informational texts Classroom scenarios that show the difference between a healthy struggle and frustration The authors’ latest thinking on teacher modeling, close reading, scaffolded small group reading, and independent reading

Academic Conversations

Author : Jeff Zwiers,Marie Crawford
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781003843290

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Academic Conversations by Jeff Zwiers,Marie Crawford Pdf

Conversing with others has given insights to different perspectives, helped build ideas, and solve problems. Academic conversations push students to think and learn in lasting ways. Academic conversations are back-and-forth dialogues in which students focus on a topic and explore it by building, challenging, and negotiating relevant ideas. In Academic Conversations: Classroom Talk that Fosters Critical Thinking and Content Understandings authors Jeff Zwiers and Marie Crawford address the challenges teachers face when trying to bring thoughtful, respectful, and focused conversations into the classroom. They identify five core communications skills needed to help students hold productive academic conversation across content areas: Elaborating and Clarifying Supporting Ideas with Evidence Building On and/or Challenging Ideas Paraphrasing Synthesizing This book shows teachers how to weave the cultivation of academic conversation skills and conversations into current teaching approaches. More specifically, it describes how to use conversations to build the following: Academic vocabulary and grammar Critical thinking skills such as persuasion, interpretation, consideration of multiple perspectives, evaluation, and application Literacy skills such as questioning, predicting, connecting to prior knowledge, and summarizing An academic classroom environment brimming with respect for others' ideas, equity of voice, engagement, and mutual support The ideas in this book stem from many hours of classroom practice, research, and video analysis across grade levels and content areas. Readers will find numerous practical activities for working on each conversation skill, crafting conversation-worthy tasks, and using conversations to teach and assess. Academic Conversations offers an in-depth approach to helping students develop into the future parents, teachers, and leaders who will collaborate to build a better world.

Creatively Teach the Common Core Literacy Standards With Technology

Author : Catlin R. Tucker
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781506307862

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Creatively Teach the Common Core Literacy Standards With Technology by Catlin R. Tucker Pdf

Let technology pave the way to Common Core success. Engage your students by delving into the Common Core ELA standards with the tools they use the most. As you explore the creative road to academic success, with the Common Core ELA and literacy standards—you will turn your classroom into a student-centered learning environment that fosters collaboration, individualizes instruction, and cultivates technological literacy. Features include: Specific recommendations for free apps and tech tools that support the Common Core Step-by-step guidelines to breaking down standards by grade and subject Teacher-tested, research-supported lesson ideas and strategies Replicable resources, including prewriting activities and writing templates Real-life examples

Fountas and Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI) Orange (Grade K) Program Guide

Author : Irene C. Fountas,Gay Su Pinnell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-05
Category : Language arts (Early childhood)
ISBN : 0325018219

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Fountas and Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI) Orange (Grade K) Program Guide by Irene C. Fountas,Gay Su Pinnell Pdf

Fountas & Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI) is a powerful early intervention system that can change the path of a student's journey to literacy. The LLI Orange System is specifically targeted at Foundation/Kindergaten students. Please note the program guide is not suitable for educators who have not yet purchased an LLI Orange System. This component is only available separately so that schools with the LLI Orange System can purchase additional copies of the program guide if they require. Find out more about the Fountas & Pinnell LLI System at www.pearson.com.au/primary/LLI

Text Complexity

Author : Douglas Fisher,Nancy Frey,Diane Lapp
Publisher : International Reading Assn
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 0872074781

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This book focuses on the quantitative and qualitative factors of text complexity as well as the ways in which readers can be matched with texts and tasks. It also examines how close readings of complex texts scaffold students understanding and allow themto develop the skills necessary to read like a detective. --from publisher description

Encounter

Author : Jane Yolen
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 015201389X

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A Taino Indian boy on the island of San Salvador recounts the landing of Columbus and his men in 1492.

Transformational Literacy

Author : Ron Berger,Libby Woodfin,Suzanne Nathan Plaut,Cheryl Becker Dobbertin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781118962237

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Transformational Literacy by Ron Berger,Libby Woodfin,Suzanne Nathan Plaut,Cheryl Becker Dobbertin Pdf

Engage, challenge, and inspire students with work that matters Transformational Literacy, written by a team from EL Education, helps teachers leverage the Common Core instructional shifts—building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction, reading for and writing with evidence, and regular practice with complex text—to engage students in work that matters. Worthy texts and worthy tasks help students see the connection between their hard work as readers and writers and their capacity to contribute to stronger communities and a better world. The stories, examples, and resources that permeate Transformational Literacy come primarily from the more than 150 EL Education schools around the country that support teachers to select, supplement, customize, and create curriculum, and improve instruction. The book also draws on EL Education's open source Common Core English Language Arts curriculum—often cited as one of the finest in the country—and professional development offered to thousands of teachers to implement that curriculum effectively. Transformational Literacy combines the best of what EL Education knows works for kids—purposeful, inquiry-based learning—and the new imperative of the Common Core—higher and deeper expectations for all students. Teach standards through a compelling and purposeful curriculum that prioritizes worthy texts and worthy task Improve students' evidence-based reading, thinking, talking, and writing Support students to develop a new mindset toward the challenge of reading complex texts Transformational Literacy introduces an approach to literacy instruction that will engage, challenge, and inspire student with work that matters.

Great Habits, Great Readers

Author : Paul Bambrick-Santoyo,Aja Settles,Juliana Worrell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781118143957

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Great Habits, Great Readers by Paul Bambrick-Santoyo,Aja Settles,Juliana Worrell Pdf

A book that brings the habits of reading to life Great readers are not made by genetics or destiny but by the habits they build—habits that are intentionally built by their teachers. The early formal years of education are the key to reversing the reading gap and setting up children for success. But K-4 education seems to widen the gap between stronger and weaker readers, not close it. Today, the Common Core further increases the pressure to reach high levels of rigor. What can be done? This book includes the strategies, systems, and lessons from the top classrooms that bring the habits of reading to life, creating countless quality opportunities for students to take one of the most complex skills we as people can know and to perform it fluently and easily. Offers clear teaching strategies for teaching reading to all students, no matter what level Includes more than 40 video examples from real classrooms Written by Paul Bambrick-Santoyo, bestselling author of Driven by Data and Leverage Leadership Great Habits, Great Readers puts the focus on: learning habits, reading habits, guided reading, and independent reading. NOTE: Content DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of the e-book file, but are available for download after purchase

It's Complicated

Author : Danah Boyd
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300166316

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It's Complicated by Danah Boyd Pdf

Surveys the online social habits of American teens and analyzes the role technology and social media plays in their lives, examining common misconceptions about such topics as identity, privacy, danger, and bullying.