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This book will help teachers solve the dilemma: What does the rest of my class do while I'm working with a small reading group? Debbie Diller offers practical suggestions for over a dozen literacy work stations that link to instruction and make preparation and management easy for teachers. Learn how to set up work stations, how to manage them, and how to keep them going throughout the year. Each chapter includes: how to introduce each station;materials to include at each station;what to model;how to solve problems;how to differentiate;how to assess and keep students accountable;reflection questions for professional development. Materials in both English and Spanish are provided in the extensive resource section. Throughout the book the author has included photos of literacy workstations from a variety of classrooms in which she has worked to illustrate the methods discussed in the text.
Author Debbie Diller turns her attention to small reading groups and the teacher's role in small-group instruction. Making the Most of Small Groups: Differentiation for All grapples with difficult questions regarding small-group instruction in elementary classrooms such as: How do I find the time? How can I be more organized? How do I form groups? How can I differentiate to meet the needs of all of my students? Structured around the five essential reading elements - comprehension, fluency, phonemic awareness, phonics, and vocabulary - the book provides practical tips, sample lessons, lesson plans and templates, suggestions for related literacy work stations, and connections to whole-group instruction. In addition to ideas to use immediately in the classroom, Diller provides an overview of relevant research and reflection questions for professional conversations.
"More Than Just A Rhyme" gives teachers a fresh look at teaching poetry. Written by a teacher, the book relates to middle school English teachers and gives them examples of lesson plans currently in use. To further aid the teacher, Ms. Kimbrough provides worksheets and poems that has worked and still works within her classroom.
Replete with strategies, examples, and reproducibles, this guide is invaluable for any teacher who wants to boost student achievement in writing for any subject or grade level!
Discover a balanced approach to writing workshop that is organized around writing genres and uses specific writing skills to help students write creative, effective fiction and nonfiction.
This book on International Migrations aims to show the diversity of topics and problematics contained within immigration, revealing certain situations that make the migratory phenomenon more comprehensible. The text collects the work experience of some members of the Research Unit on International Migrations of the University of Deusto.
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