One of the most critical elements in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) is the effective teaching of reading comprehension in the early years. This timely resource provides evidence-based practices for teachers to use as they work to meet standards associated with comprehending complex literature and informational texts. The authors offer a practical model with classroom applications that draw on the Construction-Integration (CI) model of text comprehension. Illustrating why comprehension is so important in the CCSS framework, the book distills six key principles for meeting CCSS and other high-challenge standards. Chapters show teachers how to build oral language and text comprehension skills with young readers, including selecting texts, organizing materials, scheduling time, and assessing the acquisition of knowledge. Book Features: * A practitioner-friendly model for teaching comprehension of informational and narrative texts in the early grades.* Guidance for how to create a classroom environment that supports oral language acquisition. * Instructional strategies, including teaching children to understand text structures, key details, and main ideas of a story or information text. * A standards-based series of formative comprehension assessments.

Product Description: How can educators and other professionals caring for children extend the learning potential of read alouds? This book is designed to help teachers, special education specialists, and speech-language pathologists achieve two objectives: 1) how to interact with children around books in ways that are instructive in nature but also responsive to children's verbal contributions; and 2) how to use literature, informational texts, and poetry to achieve the goals of the Common Core State Standards...read more

Close reading, the purposeful, focused reading and rereading of text, is more than an education buzzword. Every Reader, a Close Reader defines and unpacks the components of close reading and explores how to apply it within the context of the Common Core State Standards so that every student will be able to implement close reading strategies in class and independently. Drawing expertise and ideas from research, as well as teachers from across the country, Every Reader, a Close Reader serves as both an instructional guide and professional development tool for classroom teachers and instructional leaders to use when starting or strengthening close reading at the classroom level. In addition, this book includes chapters that focus on developing the close reading skills of students who are struggling readers, English language learners, or gifted learners.

Refocusing attention on the critical importance of high-quality classroom literacy instruction, this book offers a blueprint for classrooms that accelerate literacy learning of children who find learning to read and write difficult. Recognizing that providing opportunities for children to read and write is only a good beginning this book offers supportive instruction through an explicit modeling of the thinking processes that skills readers and writers use. This balanced approach to classroom literacy lessons engages children in meaningful reading and writing activity while teachers model powerful word structure and meaning-making strategies for their students. Practical cases vividly portray the look and feel of the balanced classroom programs this text describes.

Product Description: "The word routine gets a bad rap, too. It is sometimes used to describe the day-to-day, monotonous patterns of our everyday lives, often perceived as boring and unimaginative. This word has somehow lost its truth along the way. Routine needs an ally these days, and Judith and Andrea have come to its rescue! The fact is, routines are the foundational architecture for creativity, and in the classroom they give birth to deeper reading, rich writing, and meaningful conversation...read more

Product Description: ''I can't imagine a more timely book for these times in which the CCSS for English Language Arts are demanding that we pay more than lip service to integrated curriculum. Brock and her colleagues help teachers address this challenge by providing a set of elegant principles and some stunning examples of how teachers can use reading, writing, and talk to enhance learning in the science, social studies, and mathematics classroom...read more

Product Description: An indispensable guide for all who teach in grades three through five, as well as curriculum directors, reading specialists, literacy coaches, and school administrators, Inside the Common Core Classroom: Practical ELA Strategies for Grades 3-5  presents research-based teaching ideas that integrate the Common Core Standards with the best teaching practices in the critical English language arts areas...read more

Product Description: An indispensable guide for all who teach in grades K-2, as well as curriculum directors, reading specialists, literacy coaches, and school administrators, Inside the Common Core Classroom: Practical ELA Strategies for Grades K-2  helps teachers see ideas in action in this insightful look at the key aspects and fundamental shifts of the ELA Common Core Standards for grades K-2...read more

Product Description: Common Core State Standards for Grades 4-5: Language Arts Instructional Strategies and Activities is designed to help teachers teach CORE standards using research-based, effective instructional strategies in combination with ready-to-use activities...read more

''Dyson's ethnographies offer new ways of thinking about writing time and remind us of the importance of play, talk, and social relationships in children's literacy learning. If every literacy researcher could write like Dyson, teachers would want to read about research! If policymakers took her insights on board, classrooms might become more respectful and enjoyable spaces for literacy teaching and learning that soar way above the basics.'' -- Barbara Comber, Faculty of Education, Queensland University of Technology, AustraliaWhat are the real ''basics'' of writing, how should they be taught, and what do they look like in children's worlds? In her new book, Anne Haas Dyson shows how highly scripted writing curricula and regimented class routines work against young children's natural social learning processes. Readers will have a front-row seat in Mrs. Bee's kindergarten and Mrs. Kay's 1st-grade class, where these dedicated teachers taught writing basics in schools serving predominately low-income children of color. The children, it turns out, had their own expectations for one another's actions during writing time. Driven by desires for companionship and meaning, they used available linguistic and multimodal resources to construct their shared lives. In so doing, they stretch, enrich, and ultimately transform our own understandings of the basics. ReWRITING the Basics goes beyond critiquing traditional writing basics to place them in the linguistic diversity and multimodal texts of children's everyday worlds. This engaging work:* Illustrates how scripted, uniform curricula can reduce the resources of so-called ''at-risk'' children.* Provides insight into how children may situate writing within the relational ethics and social structures of childhood cultures.* Offers guiding principles for creating a program that will expand children's possibilities in ways that are compatible with human sociability. * Includes examples of children's writing, reflections on research methods, and demographic tables.

Product Description: Nearly every state has independently adopted the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), making this practical guide an indispensable resource for grades 3-5 teachers and teachers-in-training. Leading authorities explain each of the English language arts (ELA) standards and vividly show how to implement them...read more

Product Description: * Finalist--Association of Educational Publishers 2013 Distinguished Achievement Award *Principals will discover practical strategies for strengthening and improving reading programs using the foundation established by the authors' six truths of reading instruction...read more

Product Description: This book will take you into the classrooms of great literacy teachers from around the United States who have designed successful vocabulary instruction for their grades K-6 classrooms. Each teacher will share vocabulary routines that he or she uses on a regular basis, including his or her favorite, which you can use as-is or adapt for your own classroom...read more

Product Description: "Creative Curriculum Extenders: Projects for the Language Arts Classroom" is an easy-to-use source of reading and writing curriculum projects that tie to the National Literacy Standards and help teachers differentiate instruction...read more

Product Description: A GPS for connecting standards to lessons Translating the Common Core State Standards into an effective curriculum is at the top of many educators’ to-do list, and this book shows you how. This text familiarizes teachers and curriculum designers with the key points of the ELA core standards and demonstrates how to design effective curriculum units to align with them...read more