"This book is intended for middle school and high school teachers of social studies, science, English, English-language development, and any other subject with challenging texts and classes with readers who struggle to understand them. The activities are especially meant to help…
"This book is intended for middle school and high school teachers of social studies, science, English, English-language development, and any other subject with challenging texts and classes with readers who struggle to understand them. The activities are especially meant to help…
Provides 40 research-based methods with suggestions for easy implementation to help struggling readers, and features three tables of contents (traditional, topical, and problem-solving) formatted for quick reference. --From publisher's description.
This work is about scaffolding - the process by which expert teachers support novice learners. The book contains 40 research-based and classroom-tested methods that teachers can implement to help struggling readers be more successful.
"In just 15 minutes a day, middle school students can excel at understanding and remembering what they read. How? Each lesson in this eBook breaks the reading process down into smaller parts, so each day, students build upon the previous day's knowledge." --
Contains thirty fifteen-minute lessons designed to help students in middle and high school boost their reading skills, covering vocabulary, variety in reading, text organization, and the elements of literature. Includes practice exercises.
The brief lessons in this e-book result in an improved ability to read with comprehension. The online resource includes reading and interpreting literary texts and pre and post tests so that improvement can be traced. Each lesson breaks the reading process down into smaller part…
Provides a pretest covering multiple-meaning words, synonyms and antonyms, prefixes and suffixes, context clues, and summarizing, followed by thirty short lessons and a posttest to assess progress.
by Hudson, Cheryl Willis, Sims, Neil, Parkes, Brenda, Schlissel, Lillian, Mooney, Margaret E., Greenberg, Daniel A., Ring, Susan, Price, Sean, Baehr, Patricia Goehner, Brennan, Joseph K., (Joseph Killorin), Royster, Amy, Lucas, Debra, Gold, Rebecca, Economos, Chris
Teaches nonfiction guided reading using books that support the social studies and science curricula.
Introduction : the critical power and potential of multicultural young adult literature / Ricki Ginsberg and Wendy J. Glenn -- Positioning theory : exploring power, social location, and moral choices of the American dream in American street / Jennifer Buehler -- The social mind …
With a focus on fostering democratic, equitable education for young people, Ginsberg and Glenn's engaging text showcases a wide variety of innovative, critical classroom approaches that extend beyond traditional literary theories commonly used in K-12 and higher education classr…
