Product Description: Implementation of the Common Core State Standards with the integration of children's literature can transform teaching and learning into a holistic and engaging experience.• Offers an easy-to-understand explanation of the CCSS• Defines and explains the CCSS three-prong approach to text complexity• Provides usable lesson and unit plans• Explains how to use children's literature as a primary tool for implementing the CCS...read more

Providing practical guidance and resources, this book helps teachers harness the power of children's literature for developing ELLs' literacy skills and language proficiency. The authors show how carefully selected fiction, nonfiction, and poetry can support students' learning across the curriculum. Criteria and guiding questions are presented for matching books and readers based on text features, literacy and language proficiency, and student background knowledge and interests. Interspersed throughout are essays and poems by well-known children's authors that connect in a personal way with the themes explored in the chapters. The annotated bibliography features over 600 engaging, culturally relevant trade titles.

'Presents teaching reading and writing through demonstration and shared, guided, and independent approaches, including making links between reading and writing, by a continuum of support, guidance, and reflection across these approaches in the middle andupper grades'--Provided by publisher.

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