Product Description: Dr. Nancy Boyles integrates literacy instruction and coaching in a step-by-step guide for all literacy coaches. Using the explicit instruction model and complete with ready-to-use strategies, charts, checklists, protocols, and teaching scenarios, this book prepares coaches to learn: 1) The content of literacy coaching: Setting the stage for literacy learning, building literacy knowledge, and reinforcing literacy knowledge; Creating a literacy-rich classroom environment ; Developing effective lessons and modeling to engage students; AND 2) The how-to of literacy coaching: Adapting techniques to fit teachers personalities; Intervening with strategies to address common problems ; Applying coaching principles; Analyzing literacy instruction through teaching scenarios...read more

Product Description: The ability to comprehend and to respond meaningfully to text is a skill students need every day not just on test day. That s a GREAT Answer! provides complete and ready-to-go support to help teachers get great answers to open-ended comprehension questions from the students who need help the most elementary students, struggling older readers, and English language learners...read more

Product Description: Good readers think about reading while they are reading. But how does a teacher teach students to apply comprehension strategies as they read? By applying the explicit teaching model to comprehension strategy instruction, Dr. Nancy Boyles offers teachers an easy, effective, and innovative approach to improve students' reading comprehension...read more

Product Description: Nancy's comprehension and written response strategies give teachers the first-tier Response-to-Intervention (RTI) help they need to get students off to a great start! Your intermediate students may be able to orally explain what they read, but can they write a logical, thorough, and well-elaborated response to text? This professional resource shows you how to teach written response as an expository piece, with a sequence of explicit instruction for both narrative and expository literature, 29 open-ended comprehension questions, models and strategies, and an annotated list of appropriate books...read more