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not dumbed down
See the excerpts at Amazon to help you make your own decision. The cover has samples of poems. One of the excerpts gives some of the instructions for using the book. This is a creative and entertaining way to teach some phonics. It doesn't teach all of the word families but it does a great job with the ones it does teach. The delightful poems also help with memory skills because the poems are easy to remember. This gives a point of reference. On my website, there is a lot about memory skills for young children.

Not what I hoped for.
I expected a book of poems that helped to teach the top 35 word families would have a vocabulary that was more in line with K-2 readers.Many of these poems will not be within the reading ability of children who are learning word families. I was promised many examples of the word families in each poem. Many of them only have a few family words, certainly not enough to help emergent readers gain any practice, especially with the higher vocabulary used through out the rest of the poem.Some of the poems are delightful, but on the whole, I was dissapointed with the book. ... Read more

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Make full use of Greenwood's highly acclaimed Daily Life through History and bring history lessons to life with 50 exciting new document-based lesson plans covering 7 key curriculum strands:

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Effective Writing for the Week
This book is great for my first grade students.The 28 topics can be correlated to the curriculum subjects or reading topic I am focusing on for the week.The lessons offer book links, as well as guided and independent lessons for each topic.It takes a week to complete each topic.Which is great because it provides a step by step approach about how to present the subject matter and having the students prepared for independent writing and publishing on the topic at the end of the week.Teaching the Six traits?This provides excellent modeling of the traits. ... 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. ... Read more

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Why do students often graduate from high school unprepared for college writing? And what can we do about it?

These are the questions that a group of classroom teachers set out to explore. Over the course of seven years, a group of middle, high school, college, and university teachers participated in a federally funded writing coalition project to implement innovative approaches to teaching writing. Together they developed this series of lesson plans designed to make writing both fun and an integral part of diverse curricula.

"Practical" is the recurrent motif of each teaching strategy. Developed by real teachers in real classrooms, the lessons are grouped into seven categories: writing process, portfolios, literature, research, grammar, writing on demand, and media.

Each lesson follows a standard format that includes purpose of the activity; necessary preparation; required props and materials; process and procedure for implementation; instructional pointers and/or possible pitfalls; and reflections from the teacher that provide "behind the scenes" insights. ... Read more

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Thrills and chills, withces, ghosts, and goblins - these terrifying teaching tools don't need to be controversial to inspire reluctant readers in grades K-6. Cross-curricular lesson plans are linked to language arts, social studies, math, art, and technology. ... Read more

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"Reading is the New Civil Right." This book contains fun lessons for 7th graders to promote reading. ... Read more

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Expanding the book's critical literacy theme, this edition emphasizes a full, balanced range of knowledge and skills for teaching reading to all learners. Informed by the latest research on topics ranging from phonemic awareness and phonics to reader response and teaching for understanding, the book gives teachers the knowledge and skills to successfully guide elementary students toward critical literacy - the use of reading and writing to think clearly, solve problems, and communicate effectively. The content is rich in first-person accounts, classroom vignettes, and hands-on literacy activities. Some principal themes include: balancing skills instruction and more holistic approaches; fostering the love of reading; using reader response theory to enhance reading instruction; and successfully teaching all students to become able and eager readers. For teachers of elementary reading methods. ... Read more

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Excellent resource for teaching reading!
This book is extremely comprehensive and contains plenty of examples to guide your reading isntruction. There are three "Day in the Lives" excerpts which demonstrate good reading practices and plenty of research based principles which support reading instruction. I found the book easy to read and easy to reference when adopting or modifying existing reading instruction. There are numerous examples of teaching reading to diverse students which will assist with our current and future student populations.

Teaching Reading in the 21st Century
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Wrong ISBN
The book is ok, but if you are buying it as a textbook for a college course, check the ISBN.There are two versions of the same edition of this book (the 3rd).One comes with and online web registration packet.If your prof asks that you have the packet and you get the wrong ISBN, it is $40, plus whatever you paid for the book in the first place.I was only told the title and edition to get, not the ISBN, so I was stuck paying $110 total for the book and then the packet.Sweet.

So, you want to teach reading to the small fry, 'eh?
I was introduced to this book as one of the requirements in a reading endorsement course that I am presently taking.As a veteran teacher of twenty-nine years, I am on the downside of the profession, preparing for retirement in about five years.However, I am always welcome to new methodology or better adaptations of tested strategies.

This book is a concise and informative collection of skills to assist the emerging teaching as well as the one with years under his/her belt.Current psychological trends in the teaching of reading provide essential information for parents and teachers alike.Featuring chapters that reinforce each other as well as real-life vignettes from people in the field, the book is a worthy addition to any teacher's library.Outstanding tables, charts, diagrams, photos, and illustrations enhance the meaningful text.Also, the supplemental "Assessment and Lesson Plans" booklet is a great bonus.

I find it to be one of the best teaching tools that I have had and highly recommend it to others. ... Read more