Book Description
Authors Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell have already helped hundreds of thousands of K-3 teachers engage, inform, and inspire early readers and writers. Now, with Guiding Readers and Writers (Grades 3-6), Fountas and Pinnell support teachers on the next leg of the literacy journey, addressing the unique challenges of teaching upper elementary students.
The product of many years of work with classroom teachers, Guiding Readers and Writers (Grades 3-6) is one of the most comprehensive, authoritative guides available today. It explores all the essential components of a quality literacy program in six separate sections:
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Breakthrough to Literacy: Fountas and Pinnell present the basic structure of the language/literacy program within a breakthrough framework that encompasses the building of community through language, word study, reading, writing, and the visual arts. The framework plays out as three "blocks," which can be interpreted as conceptual units as well as segments of time within the school day. Specific information on how to structure a reading and writing workshop is provided. A practical chapter on organizing and managing the classroom will help you implement the principles in your own classroom.
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Independent Reading: It is essential for students to develop interests and tastes as readers, selecting books for themselves every day. Fountas and Pinnell devote four chapters to independent reading, exploring how to structure teaching, minilessons, conferences, groupshare, and ways to use response journals as part of a reading workshop.
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Guided Reading: The chapters in this section provide detailed information on planning for guided reading, dynamic grouping for effective teaching, and selecting, introducing, and using leveled texts. Fountas and Pinnell describe characteristics of texts related to difficulty and ways to organize texts in your classroom and school.
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Literature Study: This section of the book discusses how to make students' experiences with literature as rich as possible. The authors offer specific suggestions for forming groups, guiding student choices, and establishing and teaching routines for literature discussion. A full chapter explores reader response and ways to help readers dig deep to uncover the meaning of texts.
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Teaching for Comprehension and Word Analysis: This detailed look at the reading process explores both oral and silent reading, processes and behaviors related to comprehension, and ways to help students construct meaning. Included are twelve systems for sustaining the reading process and expanding meaning, plus discussions of the important areas of phonics, spelling, and vocabulary.
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The Reading and Writing Connection: These chapters showcase the instructional contexts - poetry, writer's notebooks, writer's talks, genre, content literacy, and student research - that support students in connected reading and writing. An informative overview of the characteristics of fiction and nonfiction will help you teach students to read and write a variety of genre. What's more, the authors suggest ways to help students learn the "genre" of testing and perform the kinds of reading and writing tasks that tests require. They also detail the continuous thoughtful assessment that guides all aspects of effective teaching.
A special feature appears at the end of each section, in which Fountas and Pinnell provide indispensable suggestions for working with struggling readers and writers.
Customer Reviews:
Must have resource.......2007-05-13
Every teacher who teaches grades 3-6 should own this book. It has practical mini-lessons, rationale for teaching comprehension strategies and additional resources. If you don't already own it, you should get your hands on a copy.
AMAZING. The bible of literacy........2006-08-11
This is the book you need for creating and maintaining a solid and authentic classroom literacy program. "The First Twenty Days" alone is extreemely helpful. You can start small and grow as you feel comfortable. A little overwhelming at times but worth it!
Guiding Readers and Writers.......2006-07-25
Excellent resource. Everything needed to start a reading/writing/word study workshop. My book is full of sticky notes of things to use!
Excellent Resource for Teachers !.......2006-06-29
Definitely one of the most useful and comprehensive reading and writing resources that I have ever purchased for my professional library. The price is very reasonable as well!
Great Guideline for New Teachers.......2006-03-09
This book has helped me tremendously with my new job as a teacher. Going to school did not prepare me as much as this book has.
Book Description
Through this strategy-driven, theory-based book, content-area teachers gain a thorough understanding of the fundamental role that reading and writing play in content-area learning. Unique to this book is the attention paid to helping teachers understand how the high school cultures students belong to affect their view of literacy and learning. This book presents a diagnostic perspective on teaching—encourages future teachers to examine students' performance/work on an individual basis—helps teachers see how each student's culture, background, personality, and prior knowledge inform his or her learning and suggests "best practice" for that particular learner. The author offers step-by-step approaches to gauge student literacy, build vocabulary, and implement instruction that improves comprehension, encourages critical reading, supports writing for learning, and facilitates collaboration for literacy development. Content includes research-based review of writing and numerous writing strategies; research-based overview of motivation for literacy in the content areas; and features a full range of plans to get beginning teachers off to a "good start" by showing how to create a cohesive methodology that aligns state standards with integrated strategy instruction and authentic assessment. For future middle and high school educators.
Customer Reviews:
Authoritative blend of theory and practice.......2006-02-28
Very useful text regarding developing literacy in the classroom for both seasoned and new teachers. Many examples provided. Clear prose; challenging ideas presented. A must have text.
Customer Reviews:
Reading and Writing in the Content Areas.......2006-01-16
Very good textbook. The authors offer practical suggestion as well as theory. Good mixture of both. I have used some of their suggestions and methods in class with good results. I recommend this book to anyone interested in integrating reading and writing into their curriculum, or to anyone interested in promoting reading and writing.
Book Description
Teachers who have used the first edition of this book praise it for its outstanding strategies and teaching ideas. And now authors Stephens and Brown have added over 50 new ones, plus two new chapters, one dealing with struggling readers and writers and one to help you get started using literacy strategies in your content classes. Here you get sound ideas for integrating reading and writing as tools for learning in the content areas, all solidly grounded in research-based learning theories. Nonfiction and fiction literature are incorporated throughout.
Book Description
With the passage of the "No Child Left Behind" act, and increasing pressures on teachers and administrators to produce results, true literacy is no longer optional. This book provides educators and education students with the classroom tested theories and practices needed to rise to the demand of today’s classroom. Now in its Fourth Edition, this book provides comprehensive, ready to implement, completely current theory, strategy, and implementation of all aspects of teaching reading and writing across the curriculum.
Customer Reviews:
Better than the rest.......2001-02-03
I generally loathe ed books and have found most to be pretty useless to the actual teacher in a real classroom. Not so Ms. Rapp Ruddell's book! In Mary Ellen Vogt's class at Cal State Long Beach, we had the benefit of reading this book in Galley form.
IT IS SO WORTH IT.
I don't know about the second and third edition, but this first one is GOLD! BUY IT!
Book Description
Use writing as a tool to help increase students’ comprehension of content!
"Offers an organized set of strategies for creating a 'continuous learning through writing' program for teachers and their students."
—Kimberley Gomez, Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction
University of Illinois-Chicago
"The strategies are clearly explained and include samples of student work. They can be easily implemented by pre-service teachers as well as seasoned teachers."
—Susan D'Angelo, Fifth-Grade Gifted Education Teacher
Pineview School for the Gifted, Osprey, FL
Are you looking for ways to improve students' subject area learning and writing skills? Would you like to help students respond more effectively to writing prompts on standardized tests? Can you use creative ideas for developing content-based writing assignments?
Writing as Learning, Second Edition, presents teachers with easy-to-use strategies for engaging students in writing about subject area content. These strategies will help students build a rich vocabulary, gain a deeper understanding of concepts, make connections between ideas, and develop organized thinking processes.
This updated edition offers
• A thorough discussion of writing as a learning tool
• 12 practical strategies that can be used across subject areas and grade levels
• Step-by-step guidelines for implementing each strategy
• More than 200 examples showing how the strategies can be used
Designed to help teachers develop a systematic approach to using writing in any subject area, this practical text is an essential resource for helping students achieve higher levels of content learning and effectively prepare for assessments.
Customer Reviews:
Over 200 examples help teachers develop approaches geared to any subject area........2007-04-12
Andrew Rothstein, Evelyn Rothstein and Gerald Lauber's WRITING AS LEARNING: A CONTENT-BASED APPROACH appears in its second updated edition to cover subject area learning, offering teachers strategies for engaging students in writing. Writing here is viewed as a learning tool, with chapters offering 12 strategies that can be used across subject areas and grade levels. Over 200 examples help teachers develop approaches geared to any subject area.
Customer Reviews:
An invaluable addition to teacher education curriculum.......2001-03-19
Writing In The Content Areas was written for middle and high school content area classroom teachers who assign essays, term papers, lab reports, and other writing tasks to their students. In concise and clear subject area language, Amy Benjamin provides strategies and techniques that will enable teachers of social studies, sciences, the humanities, etc. improve the quality of their students' writing in accordance with state and national curriculum standards. Writing In The Content Areas is an invaluable addition to teacher education curriculum resources and an practical, "user friendly" resource for the practicing classroom teacher.
Product Description
Writing to Prompts in the Trait-Based Classroom - Prompts that provide all the elements students need to start writing: a role, audience, format, topic and strong verb (R.A.F.T.S). 80 pages each. Grades 3 and up. - Content Areas -
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Changing the way you teach writing requires changing the way you understand the process of writing. The chapters in this collection bring together the perspectives of university researchers and classroom teachers so you see the explicit connection between writing theory and practice. The book covers writing development in grades K12 and within different learning contexts to help you understand and implement excellent writing instruction suited to your particular classroom setting.
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