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The purpose of this book is to give media specialists, teachers and/or teacher helpers and parents a guide to using beginning chapter books to encourage first and second graders to read independently. The book contains in-depth lesson plans for 35 early chapter books. Each lesson contains bibliographic information plus setting, characters, plot, solution, and book summary. Activities for the media specialist to provide schema, prediction, fluency, and information literacy skill instruction is provided as well. Teacher activities included address phonics, phonemic awareness, decoding, fluency, and the comprehension strategies of recall, inference, and synthesis. Each book section also features a parent take-home page of extension/enrichment ideas.

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Pre-Planned Lesson Plans for the Beginning Readers
This book is a set of lesson plans that are tied to forth or so common books aimed at the beginning reader. For each book the author presents activities for the:
library media specialist: Schema, Discussion Areas, Discussion about the physical book, i.e. what's contained on the title page;
the teachers: Phonics, Comprehension, Recall, some writing activities which are the beginning of book reviews later in school;
finally a parents page where the teacher can send home a review of what they have done with some suggestions as to how the parents might help their children continue the study at home.

I have not checked all the books discussed in this one, but all the ones that I did were available at Amazon.com. This includes:

And I Mean It, Stanley
Aunt Eater Loves a Mystery
Aunt Eater's Mystery Vacation
Biscuit Goes to School
Danny and the Dinosaur
Oliver
Scruffy.

In summary, this book is a professional look at using commonly available introductory books to get the maximum amount of benefit out of them. ... Read more

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The author designed this book, like Volume I of the set, to give elementary school librarians a quick, enjoyable way to coordinate with teachers to teach information literacy and literacy skills aligned with national standards. Each chapter consists of lesson plans for each grade level from K-5. In this second volume, as in the first, each chapter gives quick and easy, standard-based lessons with reproducible lesson sheets and simple directions. Each set of directions mentions teaching teams, objectives, learning modalities/Gardner's Multiple Intelligences, McCREL National Standards, AASL/AECT Standards, and detailed teaching resources/book titles. The volume contains all new lesson plans. Grades K-5.

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Don't waste your money
I was extremely disappointed by the lessons in this book. They are really nothing special at all and I don't think I found a single lesson in the book worth doing with my K-5 students. Two thumbs down.

Can't believe I bought this book!
Most of these lesson plans could be found elsewhere, for instance on state curriculum websites. The graphics are laughable. I wanted some new and different lesson plans, and these ideas are stale. Try "Funbrarian." Cheaper book, more FUN! ... Read more

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Detailed day-by-day lesson plans designed specifically for home schoolers. Includes scheduling information, record-keeping helps, and 170 daily lesson plans to save hours of preparation time. Lesson plans are divided into 4 sections: language, reading, penmanship, and spelling.(www.abeka.com) ... Read more

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Day to day lesson plans including several beautiful illustrations. ... Read more

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Complete lesson plans for teaching Fitzgerald's The GreatGatsby. Includes introduction to the unit, unit objectives, readingassignments, unit outline, study questions (short answer), study/quizquestions (multiple choice), vocabulary worksheets, daily lessonsplanned, related nonfiction reading assignment, oral readingevaluation, biographical info about the author, three detailed writingassignments (inform, persuade, personal opinion), vocabulary reviewgames & activities, unit review games & activities, at least one groupactivity assignment, discussion questions on all levels (factual,critical, interpretive, personal response), 2 short answer unit tests,2 multiple choice unit tests, 1 advanced short answer unit test, unitand vocabulary crossword puzzles, unit and vocabulary extra worksheets& games, bulletin board ideas, ready-to-copy student materials, answerkeys, and more! ... Read more

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Don't Waste Your Money
I bought this unit plan to help provide decent study guide questions and was highly disappointed in the entire product. I can't get over the lack of originality in these "lessons." Don't waste your money.

Definitely good resource for the money
This unit plan for The Great Gatsby is a great supplemental unit for a teacher who is either not familiar with this novel, or just a new teacher without much time to create an entire unit. Some of the lessons are a little bit "bare bones" in that they just scratch the surface, and just go into basic information about characters, plot and vocabulary. However, over all, this is a unit that I found very helpful just to get some additional study questions and vocabulary in. There are also quizzes within this unit for the entire novel, broken into chapter increments. If there is one drawback, I found some of the quiz questions to be a little bit trivial or unimportant, so, when using the unit, I have found myself skipping some or editing others. Still, for the price, this is a great time saver for a teacher, and also works as a supplemental tool for the novel.

3 1/2 stars

This will be brief because I have to finish lesson plans . .
Good stuff, this is! Vocabulary, study questions, unit tests- nothing you haven't already seen.It is my first year teaching Gatsby and between classroom management, grading papers and getting caught up with the book (and material for other classes) I am exhausted.

This pack gives me the time to focus on how I will present the material and is dry enough that it let's me modify it to my students' needs.

A good skeleton unit.

A Teacher's Greatest Helper
Wow! This was a great resource to use when teaching a novel. I had not taught The Great Gatsby before and really wanted to have my students "work with" this novel. It provided a great resource for vocabulary exercises and study guide questions. It also provided a plethera of quiz and test questions to use. As another teacher-reviewer indicated, she felt guilty at first of using premade materials. I, on the other hand, believe that my role as a teacher is demanding enough, without having to spend hours creating my teaching materials. I do create my own original activites and adapt materials to fit appropriately, but cherish the teaching materials that I can choose from to use. I am teaching a new grade level next year with new novels, and I am already planning my order for more LitPlan titles. Thank you for this wonderful resource!!

Feeling Overwhelmed By Paperwork and Planning?
Okay, I'll confess that I felt guilty when I ordered this CD-ROM. It kind of seemed like the equivalent of serving your kids TV dinners instead of a fresh cooked meal, but I've gotten over it.

These lesson plans aren't a substitute for homemade, but they certainly do foot the bill more than adequetly.The activities are comprehensive and thoughtful, though sometimes a little dry.

I'm planning on ordering more to have on hand for emergencies. Also, the study questions and vocabulary lists are a Godsend.I hate writing study questions... so boring, yet necessary.The study questions included here helped my students grasp the novel and made my life a bit easier.

On the down side the files are in PDF format so if you want to be able to _edit_ the handouts, you need Adobe Acrobat. (Printing handouts "as is" doesn't require anthing fancy and you can cut and paste the old fashioned way.)

Sure if we worked 15 hour days every day, we could constantly create stimulating new materials for each day, but we'd burn out.All told, if you are a new teacher and can afford to buy this CD, I say go for it.It was well worth it for me. ... Read more

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A 2 page lesson plan for every literature selection, a lesson planfor every writing workshop, plus blank lesson plan mastersCorrelated to the grade 9 California Language Arts standards, California High School Exit Exam Standards ... Read more

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Support for the Holt Handbook Literature & Language Arts Third Course - lesson plans for language development includes special help for English-Language Learners and Special-Education Students. ... Read more

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Use these ready-to-use lesson plans and photocopiable worksheets with your students and see how they progress with grammar. ... Read more

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The Step-by-Step Lesson Plans provide strategies for conducting Student Book level 2 activities and applying the lesson to the multilevel classroom.It offers interleaved pages from the level 2 Student Book, detailed lesson plans with multilevel teaching strategies and tips, and a CD-ROM of printable multilevel grammar practice. ... Read more

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Multi Cultural Voices is designed to take students into and beyond the selections. This teacher's resource book for Multicultural Voices offers backgrounds needed to help you teach new selections successfully. It presents teaching options and strategies, opportunities for integrating the language arts, motivating and enrichment activities, and suggestions for individualized instruction. ... Read more

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PACING SUGGESTIONS, SUGGESTIONS FOR OPTIONAL ACTIVITIES, SUGGESTIONS FORINTEGRATING LITERATURE AND GRAMMAR, USAGE, AND MECHANICS. ... Read more

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A state of the art set of lesson plans that can be used for differentiated instruction of students with dysgraphia, dyslexia, and OWL LD, this book gives teachers of Grades 4 6 a whole school year of specialized group instruction that improves the literacy skills of students who struggle with written language. Students in Ginger Berninger's research studies showed significant improvement in their reading and writing after using these lessons now available to teachers for the first time ever in one convenient book! The practical companion to Teaching Students with Dyslexia and Dysgraphia (ISBN 978-1557669346), these step-by-step lessons deliver positive results in brief interventions, and these are the only lessons of their kind that are proven effective by brain research studies. The highly organized lesson plans, which are detailed but not rigid, help students improve in multiple subject areas, and show teachers how to incorporate reading and writing in science and social studies content areas of the curricula by making it easy to incorporate research based instruction into classrooms to meet the needs of ALL students.
Each ready to use lesson is complete with teacher materials and student materials. The teacher materials give educators warmup exercises that target key skills, simple activities with clear and detailed descriptions, and adaptable sample scripts that help them elicit student responses. And with the student materials, teachers will have photocopiable worksheets that help children sharpen their skills in creative, engaging ways. ... Read more