Product Description: The premise of Dimensions of Learning--an instructional framework founded on the best of what researchers and theorists know about learning--is that five types, or dimensions, of thinking are essential to successful learning. These are (1) positive attitudes and perceptions about learning, (2) thinking involved in acquiring and integrating knowledge, (3) thinking involved in extending and refining knowledge, (4) thinking involved in using knowledge meaningfully, and (5) productive habits of mind...read more

Provides an instructional framework for teaching the importance of vocabulary and to help students with reading comprehension.

Provides instructional strategies to improve student achievement.

Product Description: Addresses the controversy over skills versus language in reading education by integrating the best features of each approach. Based on experience with teachers, the authors present a learning strategy in which students acquire reading and writing skills as a by-product of communication tasks...read more