McGraw-Hill, 2003. — 320 p. — ISBN: 0071412298. Everything you need to keep your class engaged and involved! Tapped out on teaching ideas? Drained from dreaming up creative lesson supplements? Burned out from battling the bored student glaze-over? These days, with so many distractions clamoring for students' attention, it's often a struggle to get students to "tune in" to the...
Teacher's Friend Publications, 2002. — 48 p. Teacher Tested, Skill-Based Activities for Home or School. Reproducable pages with answer keys. Teach and reinforce important basic skills! Use the individual activities to support the units you are teaching and/or provide homework practice. The high-interest, age-appropriate activities are both motivating and challenging. Students will...
Teacher's Friend Publications, 2002. — 48 p. Teach and reinforce important basic skills! Use the individual activities to support the units you are teaching and/or provide homework practice. The high-interest, age-appropriate activities are both motivating and challenging. Students will have fun learning new skills and concepts and at the same time add to their existing knowledge....
Ontario Education, excellence for all, 2006. — 80 p.
In this guide, literacy is defined as the ability to use language and images in rich and varied forms to read, write, listen, speak, view, represent, and think critically about ideas. Literacy enables us to share information, to interact with others, and to interpret various kinds of texts. It connects individuals and...
English Today / Volume 28 / Issue 01 / March 2012, pp. 3-8
DOI: 10.1017/S0266078411000599, Published online: 06 March 2012
For second language learners, the value of the explicit teaching of English grammar has never been questioned. However, in recent times there has been dissent about whether or not to teach English grammar to native speakers. From the late 1960s onwards...
Brookes Publishing Company, 2002. — 180 p. — ISBN: 1-55766-321-1. Authors: Adams Marilyn Jager, Foorman Barbara, Lundberg Ingvar, Beeler Terri. Phonemic Awareness in Young Children complements any prereading program. From simple listening games to more advanced exercises in rhyming, alliteration, and segmentation, this best-selling curriculum helps boost young learners'...
Brookes Publishing Company, 2002. — 180 p. Authors: Adams Marilyn Jager, Foorman Barbara, Lundberg Ingvar, Beeler Terri. Phonemic Awareness in Young Children complements any prereading program. From simple listening games to more advanced exercises in rhyming, alliteration, and segmentation, this best-selling curriculum helps boost young learners' preliteracy skills in just...
Scholastic Inc., 2005. — 216 p.
Want to help students achieve greater depth of reading, writing, and understanding? This book shows teachers how to facilitate discussions where students share rich, defensible interpretations of literature and solid, reasoned, understandings of any concepts under study. Based on the authors’ extensive research in middle schools, it describes why...
Stenhouse Publishers, 2006. — iv, 156 p. — ISBN 1-57110-085-7 (alk. paper); 1-57110-494-1 (e-book). Words, Words, Words does provide a range of strategies, solidly backed by research, for offering students of any age a rich learning experience that will enhance their vocabulary and may even help them enjoy playing with words and language. Any teacher who is interested in...
The activities in this guide align with Common Core State Standards and fit into the curriculum for grades 9–10 Laurie Halse Anderson’s young adult novels offer a respectful and honest view of the difficult issues faced by teens today. Wildly popular with teens and teachers alike, Anderson’s novels tackle deep, devastating topics such as rape, eating disorders, sexual abuse,...
Scholastic Teaching Resources, 2008. — 128 p. — ISBN10: 0545005213, ISBN13: 978-0545005210 Age Range: 8 - 11 years Helping Students Get What Grammar Is and How It Works Asking students to memorize the rules of grammar is of limited value; on the other hand, helping them understand the power of grammar from the inside out has the potential to transform their writing—and develop...
2nd Edition. — Department of Education WA, 2013. — 242 p.
Authors: Kevlynn Annandale, Ross Bindon, Julie Broz, Jenny Dougan, Kerry Handley, Annette Johnston, Lynn Lockett, Philippa Lynch, and Rebecca Rourke.
The First Steps Writing Resource Book Second Edition builds on the original First Steps writing text (formerly known as the Writing Resource Book) by drawing on...
Department of Education WA, 2013 - 318 pages.
ISBN: 978-0-7307-4512-9.
The Reading Map of Development describes student learning behaviours, suggested teaching emphases and a range of teaching and learning experiences for each phase of development.
Department of Education WA, 2013 - 320 pages.
ISBN: 978-0-7307-4516-7.
The Writing Map of Development is designed to help teachers map their students' progress; it offers suggestions for teaching and learning experiences that will assist with further development of students' writing.
2nd Edition. — Department of Education WA, 2013. — 215 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7307-4513-6 Authors: Kevlynn Annandale, Ross Bindon, Kerry Handley, Annette Johnston, Lynn Lockett, Philippa Lynch The First Steps Reading Resource Book Second Edition builds on the original First Steps text (formerly known as Reading Resource Book) by drawing upon contemporary research and developments in...
Department of Education WA, 2013. — 319 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7307-4518-1. The Viewing Map of Development describes student learning behaviours, suggested teaching emphases and a range of teaching and learning experiences for each phase of development. The organisation of the map assists teachers to link teaching and learning with assessment.
Teachers College Press, 2014. — 272 p. Because of the emphasis placed on nonfiction and informational texts by the Common Core State Standards, literature teachers all over the country are re-evaluating their curriculum and looking for thoughtful ways to incorporate nonfiction into their courses. They are also rethinking their pedagogy as they consider ways to approach texts...
Linworth, 2007. — 160 p. — (Linworth Learning). Get solid learning results with phonics! Teach students in Grades K-1 the basics of phonemic awareness to increase reading skills. ·These lessons include playful story hour rhymes and activities to provide direct instruction in phonics and phonemic awareness targeted to get solid learning results ·The lessons are easy-to-implement...
Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, 2010. — 512 p. The Visual Vocabulary Resources book provides teachers photo-word cards that visually introduce specific vocabulary. The photos are intended to preteach vocabulary to English learners and Approaching Level students in grade 1, as well as offer additional, meaningful language and concept support to these students. The photo-word cards...
Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, 2011. — 426 p.
Visual Vocabulary Resources - Kindergarten
Full-color, real-life photos of all vocabulary words, function words and phrases, and basic vocabulary along with instructional routines promote language, comprehension and vocabulary development. Save valuable time with ready-made beautiful, engaging images of every vocabulary word along with...
Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, 2010. — 508 p. The Visual Vocabulary Resources book provides teachers photo-word cards that visually introduce specific vocabulary. The photos are intended to preteach vocabulary to English learners and Approaching Level students in grade 1, as well as offer additional, meaningful language and concept support to these students. The photo-word cards support...
Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, 2010. — 586 p. The Visual Vocabulary Resources book provides teachers photo-word cards that visually introduce specific vocabulary. The photos are intended to preteach vocabulary to English learners and Approaching Level students in grade 1, as well as offer additional, meaningful language and concept support to these students. The photo-word cards...
Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, 2010. — 588 p. The Visual Vocabulary Resources book provides teachers photo-word cards that visually introduce specific vocabulary. The photos are intended to preteach vocabulary to English learners and Approaching Level students in grade 1, as well as offer additional, meaningful language and concept support to these students. The photo-word cards...
Washington, DC: National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance (NCEE), Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, 2014. — 115 p. Baker S., Lesaux N., Jayanthi M., Dimino J., Proctor C.P., Morris J., Gersten R., Haymond K., Kieffer M.J., Linan-Thompson S., Newman-Gonchar R. This practice guide provides four recommendations that address what...
Teacher Ideas Press, 1999.- 201р.
Now you can use quality children's literature to teach traditional reading skills! Providing a balance between traditional and literature-based instruction, these books include stimulating and instructive lessons based on approximately 150 skills commonly found in basal readers. These lessons utilize a variety of strategies that can be applied to...
Mark Twain Media, 2005. — 48 p. Write on! Write with students in grades 4 and up using Jumpstarters for Writing: Short Daily Warm-Ups for the Classroom. This 48-page resource covers the building blocks of great nonfiction, fiction, and poetry writing. The book includes five warm-ups per reproducible page, answer keys, and suggestions for use.
Mark Twain Media, 2008. — 50 p. Short Daily Warm-ups for the Classroom Physical warm-ups help athletes prepare for more strenuous types of activity. Mental warm-ups help students prepare for the day's lesson while reviewing what they have previously learned. The short warm-up activities presented in this book provide teachers and parents with a variety of ways for students to...
Short Daily Warm-ups for the Classroom Publisher: Mark Twain Media, Inc. - 2006 Paperback: 50 pages. Physical warm-ups help athletes prepare for more strenuous types of activity. Mental warm-ups help students prepare for the day's lesson while reviewing what they have previously learned. The short warm-up activities presented in this book provide teachers and parents with...
Lorenz Educational Press, 2002. — 44 p. Milliken's Reading Well! series provides teachers and parents with a wide variety of activities to use at home or in the classroom to enhance your reading program. Reading materials and styles of writing include realistic fiction, biography, poetry, fantasy, informational articles, myths, legends, tall tales, and plays or skits. The...
Routledge, 2018. — 106 p. This third edition of Grammar Survival brings the content fully up-to-date with the new National Curriculum and GCSEs, making it current and relevant for all secondary school English teachers. Grammar Survival for Secondary Teachers combines knowledge about grammar with pedagogical approaches. Each left-hand page sets out the knowledge teachers need...
Routledge, 2010. - 104 pages. ISBN: 0415554055, 0203863356 Is teaching grammar an uphill struggle? Do you find teaching complex sentences or comma use a daunting prospect? Focusing on what you need to know in the classroom, Grammar Survival provides you with the essential knowledge and tools you’ll need to teach grammar effectively. This second edition has been updated and...
Paul Chapman Publishing, 2007. - 217 pages. ISBN: 1412930340
Helps teachers include multimodal approaches in writing instruction, demonstrates how to build a supportive classroom environment for analyzing visual and audiovisual texts.
Multilingual Matters, 2014. - 168 p. - ISBN: 1783091754, 1783091746
Language Use in the Classroom allows those involved in college-level education, across disciplines, to make better use of research from the field of linguistics. It is clear that a proper understanding of how to use academic English is crucial for success in college, and this book will aid all educators in...
Routledge, New York, 2012, 161 pages, ISBN: 9780415882033, 0415882036
Groundbreaking in the ways it makes new connections among emotion, critical theory, and pedagogy, this book explores the role of students’ and teachers’ emotions in college instruction, illuminating key literacy and identity issues faced by immigrant students learning English in postsecondary institutions....
Scholastic, 1997. — 160 p. Designed for teachers of 5 to 7 year-olds, the activities in this book help children to investigate, disassamble, and evaluate simple products. Children are encouraged to practise skills through practical tasks, and assignments are provided to enable children to design and make products.
Scholastic Professional Books, 2001. – 168 p.
Put students on the road to reading with this clear and concise guide to teaching reading strategies to young learners. The irresistible lessons and activities introduce and model key strategies—including questioning, reading on, summarizing, visualizing, and rereading—that will help students become independent, strategic readers....
Scholastic, 1998. — 64 p.
50 Easy & Irresistible Ideas That Keep Children Interested, Engaged, and Learning as They Move From One Activity to the Next.
Transform ho-hum time between activities into learning-filled transitions with this fabulous collection of just-right ideas! More than fifty innovative, 2-5 minute ideas that make managing transitions a snap. Ideas compliment...
Scholastic Teaching Resources, 2008. — 513 p. Help close the achievement gap and put all students on the road to reading success with this easy-to-implement weekly program that fits into any curriculum. Created by two teachers and classroom-tested since 1998 with powerful results, this program includes a step-by-step teaching guide with daily lesson plans, whole-group...
Routledge; 1 edition (October 10, 2014) — 153 p. —ISBN10: 1138783315 Jumpstart! Thinking Skills and Problem Solving presents a collection of simple to use, multi-sensory games and activities which will jumpstart students’ understanding of problem solving in action. If you are one of the thousands of teachers looking for a range of practical and fun ideas to engage pupils in...
Department of Education WA, 2013 - 320 pages.
ISBN: 978-0-7307-4514-3.
The Speaking and Listening Map of Development is designed to help teachers map their students' progress. It has a strong focus on supporting teachers as they plan and implement a dynamic and interactive model of speaking and listening.
2nd Edition. — John Wiley & Sons, 2011. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 0470525134. Problem–solving techniques for all aspects of the English teacher′s job This unique time–saving book is packed with tested techniques and materials to assist new and experienced English teachers with virtually every phase of their job from lesson planning to effective discipline techniques. The book includes...
New York: Scholastic Inc., 1995. — 121 p. — ISBN: 0-590-48928-3. A useful source of information about graphic organizers, their peculiarities and classroom usage.
Сontinuum, 2009. – 131 p. ISBN: 978-1-84706-545-2 Provides secondary school teachers with a wide range of highly creative suggestions for classroom starters and plenaries.
Fourth Edition. — Heinemann, 2013. — 373 pages. — ISBN10: 0325028400; ISBN13: 978-0325028408. A Completely New Guide to Classroom, Curriculum, and the Profession Age Range: 11 – 17 years The fourth edition of English Teacher’s Companion is 100 percent new. Jim Burke has rewritten it to model methods for reaching a new generation of students-when all the ground rules for...
2nd Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 354 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-60630-2 This lively coursebook encourages students to develop more sophisticated and mature thinking processes by learning specific, transferable skills independent of subject content which assist confident engagement in argument and reasoning. As well as giving a thorough grounding in critical thinking...
Brilliant, 2010. – 59 p.
Stress amongst primary-age children is a growing problem, and this in turn impacts on pupils' ability to learn effectively. Meditation has a calming, beneficial effect and at the same time increases children's creative thinking skills. "The Vision Within" provides a practical introduction to creative visualization for primary school teachers. The tried...
The Guilford Press, 2008. — 240 pages. 1 edition. ISBN10: 1593857071 ISBN13: 978-1593857073 How can busy teachers successfully manage the complex task of assessing their students' reading comprehension? This invaluable book-the first stand-alone guide on the topic-presents reliable, research-supported guidelines and procedures for K-6 teachers to use in the classroom. Through...
Date: 2010 Format: PDF Pages: 625 The Visual Vocabulary Resources book provides teachers photo-word cards that visually introduce specific vocabulary. The photos are intended to preteach vocabulary to English learners and Approaching Level students in grade 5, as well as offer additional, meaningful language and concept support to these students. The photo-word cards support...
Macmillan/McGraw-Hill. — 648 p. — (California Treasures). The Visual Vocabulary Resources book provides teachers photo-word cards that visually introduce specific vocabulary. The photos are intended to preteach vocabulary to English learners and Approaching Level students in grade 6, as well as offer additional, meaningful language and concept support to these students. The...
Creative Teaching Press, 2004. – 144 p. By teaching students how to "dissect" words using the lessons in Prefixes and Suffixes, they will learn how to comprehend multisyllabic words, not just decode them. The activities in this resource incorporate all levels of literacy to maximize the transfer of vocabulary into students' speech, writing, and reading comprehension. Each of...
Scholastic, 2006. — 96 p. — (Scholastic Teaching Strategies).
Age Range: 8 - 10 years, Grade Level: 3 - 5
Reading expert Deanne Camp shows how matching two high-interest books—one fiction and one nonfiction — on the same topic can boost students’ engagement and comprehension in any subject area. This resource provides 15 comprehension strategy lessons for building background...
Continuum, 2009. — 176 p. This comprehensive handbook provides you with practical advice on: planning and teaching outstanding English lessons developing effective assessment practices preparing your own toolkit for teaching speaking and listening, reading and writing organising English enrichment opportunities becoming a highly organised and efficient English teacher...
Helena Ceranic 2011 - 169 pages. ISBN: 9781441102119 English teachers constantly have to think up new ways to engage their class. It's hard enough for teachers to fit all their marking, extra-curricular duties and training into their lives, let alone finding time to think up exciting new ways of introducing Dickens, or designing activities to bring Caribbean poetry to life....
Ri Seukoria, 2008. — 144 p. Chatroom for teens encourages learners to express themselves freely on a wide range of relevant topics. Many though-provoking questions and examples are given to spur independent language usage. There are no specifically right or wrong answers, so there is no need for users to intimidated any more than if they were discussing the same topics in their...
Ri Seukoria, 2008. — 144 p. Chatroom for teens encourages learners to express themselves freely on a wide range of relevant topics. Many though-provoking questions and examples are given to spur independent language usage. There are no specifically right or wrong answers, so there is no need for users to intimidated any more than if they were discussing the same topics in their...
Ri Seukoria, 2009. — 146 p. Chatroom for teens encourages learners to express themselves freely on a wide range of relevant topics. Many though-provoking questions and examples are given to spur independent language usage. There are no specifically right or wrong answers, so there is no need for users to intimidated any more than if they were discussing the same topics in their...
Scholastic Inc., 2003. — 32 p. — (Scholastic Teaching Resources). — ISBN10: 0439431158; ISBN13: 9780439431156. Add extra zing to your letter-of-the-week lessons! These delightful alliterative poems build phonemic awareness and letter recognition. Repeating sounds and rhythms engage kids in word play as they read each line chorally. Includes companion activities and teaching...
Springer International Publishing, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 265 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-93238-5,978-3-319-93239-2 This book draws on original research and a language based pedagogy approach to examine how secondary schools in the UK can devise and implement coherent language and literacy across curriculum policies and strategies, so that grammar and associated metalanguage...
Scholastic, 2003. — 64 p. — ISBN13: 9780439395120 "Old MacDonald," "Wheels on the Bus," "This Old Man," and seven other favorite songs become springboards to lots of fun-filled learning! For each song, you'll find reproducibles and creative activities that help children develop oral language, strengthen phonemic awareness, attend to print, and build early writing skills....
Scholastic Professional Books, 2002, 45 pages. Packed with teacher-tested ideas and activities that correlate with the Language Arts Standards. Includes tips for working with second language learners; assessment ideas; and writing, art, music, and movement connections for kids of all learning styles. You’ll also find reproducible graphs, charts, graphic organizers, games,...
Teacher Created Resources, 2006. – 144 p. ISBN13: 978-0-7439-3621-7 ISBN10: 0-7439-3621-3 It is for third and fourth grades provides teachers with resources, activities, and ideas aimed at introducing students to the basic elements of grammar. The activity pages can be used as a resource around which to build and develop a classroom program. How to Use This Book Assessment...
U.S.A. Teacher Created Resources, 2002. - 144 p. - ISBN: 9780743936200 Introduce students to the basic elements of grammar with activities that cover parts of speech and composition. Motivate students by focusing on the goal of good grammar-accurate and effective communication. How to Use This Book Assessment Parts of Speech: Nouns Verbs Adjectives Adverbs Articles Prepositions...
Crown 2007. — 280 pages.
Speaking and listening is a major component of key skills and literacy qualifications. It is also one of the three elements of the new standards for functional English. However, there is a significant lack of material available to help teachers, trainers and tutors to develop their learners' skills in this important area and this is the principal reason...
Sage publications, Inc., 2011. — 280 р.
Ideal as a supplementary text for a variety of courses and as a guide for in-service teachers and for professional development settings, Teaching English Language Learners: 43 Strategies for Successful K–8 Classrooms provides teachers of all content areas with a broad, practical approach to teaching English language learners in the...
Popular Book Company (Canada), 2011. — 408 p. — ISBN: 978-1-897164-29-7 Complete Canadian Curriculum covers the four key subject areas: Math, Language, Social Studies, and Science. The curriculum-based units are designed to ensure that your child understands the concepts and masters the necessary skills. With the vivid illustrations and interesting activities, your child would...
Scholastic Teaching Resources, 2008. — 77 p. — ISBN10: 0439897386, ISBN13: 978-0439897389 Age Range: 8 and up This ready-to-use resource contains 15 exciting-and true-stories for kids to read and then write or discuss their predictions about the story's ending. The stories are perfect for building essential reading skills such as making inferences, drawing conclusions,...
Routledge, 2009. — 284 p. — ISBN13: 978-0805863918, ISBN10: 0805863915 Authors: Cook Hirai Debra L., Borrego Irene, Garza Emilio, Kloock Carl T. Fast-paced, practical, and innovative, this text for pre-service and in-service teachers features clear, easily accessible lessons and professional development activities to improve the delivery of academic language/literacy education...
Continuum, 2006. — 138 p.
100 Ideas for Teaching English contains 100 creative and innovative ideas for getting students engaged in all aspects of the English curriculum. Ideas range from understanding basic grammar and punctuation to studying plays, poetry and core texts.
Carson-Dellosa Publishing, 2015. — 100 p. — (Interactive Notebooks). — ISBN10: 1483824691, 13 978-1483824697. Age Range: 7 and up Grade Level: 2 and up In Interactive Notebooks: Language Arts for first grade, students will complete hands-on activities about long vowels, sentence structure, nouns, adjectives, story elements, text features, and more. The Interactive Notebooks...
Routledge, 2009. — 192 p. — (Learning to Teach in the Primary School). — ISBN-10: 0415435021. What does it mean to teach English creatively to primary school children? How can you successfully develop pupils’ engagement with reading and writing skills? Teaching English Creatively demonstrates the potential of creative teaching to develop children’s knowledge, skills,...
Are you looking for some fresh ideas to revitalise the way you teach English in your classroom? Well look no further… Belinda and Kev have put together an ebook with over fifteen innovative ideas for teachers to teach literacy. This book usually retails on Amazon but to Edgalaxy readers it is all yours and completely free. Whether you are a seasoned veteran or a new beginner I...
Crown House Publishing, 2019. — ISBN 9781781353318. Written by Chris Curtis, How to Teach: English: Novels, non-fiction and their artful navigation is jam-packed with enlivening ideas to help teachers make the subject of English more intellectually challenging for students – and to make it fun too! Never underestimate your duty and power as a teacher of English. English...
Stenhouse Publishers, 2004. — 360 p. The seven methods or structures include: Reading as thinking; Representing to learn; Small-group activities; Classroom workshop; Authentic experiences; Reflective assessment; Integrative units. They encourage more of the following in the classroom: Experiential, inductive, hands-on learning; time devoted to reading whole, real books; choice...
London: Lorenz Educational Press;The Teaching and Learning Company, 2013. — 116 p. The Four Square method can be used with all forms of writing and will fit any reading or language arts program. This step-by-step approach is built around a simple graphic organizer that first shows students how to collect ideas and then helps them use those ideas to create clear and polished prose.
Libraries Unlimited, 2012. — 374 p. — ISBN: 9781598848038, ASIN 1598848038. Supporting Reading Grades 6-12: A Guideaddresses head-on the disturbing trend of declining leisure reading among students and demonstrates how school librarians can contribute to the development of lifelong reading habits as well as improve students' motivation and test scores. The book provides a...
London: SAGE Publishing, 2010. — 202 p. — ISBN 978-1-84920-144-5 Authors: Ros Fisher, Susan J. Jones, Shirley Larkin, Debra Myhill Using Talk to Support Writing presents a new and innovative approach to the teaching of early writing. The authors discuss both theoretical and practical issues around using talk in the classroom to support children as they learn to write. Set...
Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002. — 264 p. — ISBN: 0805839410
This volume offers concrete answers to the question of how we can use imagery to enrich the teaching of reading and writing. The chapters are organized according to two guiding principles. First, each addresses specific aspects of the inextricable integration of imagery and language in the teaching of reading and writing....
Third edition. — Oxon, UK: Routledge, 2010. — 280 p. Includes bibliography and index. Presenting an informed view of current educational policy, this text encourages students of secondary English to take a creative and independent interpretation of government initiatives in order to achieve effective teaching practice. The English teacher and the National Curriculum The impact...
Routledge. 2 edition. 2004. — 337 pages. ISBN: 0805852581 This text makes available in a concise format the chapters comprising the research methodology section of the Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts, Second Edition. An introduction, designed to give K-12 teachers an understanding of the basic categories and functions of research in teaching, is...
1 edition. — David Fulton Publishers, 2009. — 120 p. Creative Approaches to Poetry for the Primary Framework for Literacy supports teachers in planning, teaching and, most importantly, enjoying poetry with their pupils. With an emphasis on creative, cross curricular approaches the authors explore tried and tested methods of teaching poetry in an engaging and comprehensive...
Scholastic, 2000. — 72 p. — (Scholastic Professional Books). Short, Irresistible, Guess-Me Poems Perfect for Shared Reading, Circle Time, and More! Add rhythm and rhyme to every aspect of your emergent literacy program with the playful riddles and activities in this book. Riddles are one of the oldest forms of poetry for a good reason. They make us grin! They make us think!...
Multilingual Matters, 1998. — 276 p.
A general introduction to bilingualism, bilingual education, and minority education in the United States, and an ethnographic/discourse analytic study of how one "successful" dual-language programme challenges mainstream US educational progammes that discriminate against minority students and the languages they speak. Implications for...
Jossey-Bass, 2010. — 256 p. The Spelling Teacher's Lesson-a-Day gives teachers 180 engaging and ready-to-use lessons-one for each day of the school year-that boost spelling skills in students grades 3-6 . These lessons may be used as "sponge" or "hook" activities (five-minute lessons to start off each school day) or teachers may simply pick and choose activities from within the...
Teacher Created Resources, 2004. — 272 p. — ISBN13: 978-0743935036; ISBN10: 0743935039. For K-3 classroom teachers, reading teachers, English as a Second Language teachers, and special education teachers, here is an exciting new collection of ready-to-use word puzzles and activity pages to help students learn the first 300 Instant Words. These 300 words make up 65% of all...
A thouroughly picked up and organised set of English games with detailed step by step instructions will help any teacher to provoke their students to learn English while having fun. The games are: the Grammar Casino, Blue Trousers, Chinese Whispers, Spiders and Candy, Mime, Unscramble It, Treeasure Island, Under the Arch, Order the Story, What Animal is This, Musical Chairs,...
Scholastic Teaching Resources, 2007, 80 pages.
Ready-to-reproduce homework packets are a perfect way to turn students into successful spellers! This program is easy for teachers to manage and includes opportunities for word list differentiation. Kids love the independent activities. By writing and alphabetizing words, completing cloze activities, segmenting words into word boxes,...
David Fulton Publish, 2004. — 144 p. — ISBN: 1843121468
Focusing on how teachers can improve the ways in which they plan their lessons, this book demonstrates how careful planning allows the further development of learning approaches. The author presents a clear understanding of how these approaches can be used by the teacher to assess themselves and their students? learning...
Washington, DC: National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, 2007. — 55 p.
Gersten R., Baker S.K., Shanahan T., Linan-Thompson S., Collins P., Scarcella R.
The target audience for this guide is a broad spectrum of school practitioners such as administrators, curriculum specialists, coaches,...
Palgrave Macmillan, Hampshire, UK, 2015, 130 pages, ISBN: 978-1-349-50221-9, 978-1-137-47805-4
This book is a text which hopes to articulate something of what is affirmed by the singular investments made in this subject by its practitioners, whilst avoiding the good conscience and defensive commonplaces found in the frequently-reductive journalism on the topic. The last hundred...
RoutledgeFalmer, 2004. — 256 p. — ISBN 0415335272 This authoritative and comprehensive text presents a comprehensive account of the background, theory and practice of teaching this essential subject. It covers the requirements for gaining qualified teacher status and also pres invaluable expert advice, guidance, and tips on the teaching of the subject. With advice on planning...
Corwin Press, 2014. — 225 p. Make every student fluent in the language of learning. The Common Core and ELD standards provide pathways to academic success through academic language. Using an integrated Curricular Framework, districts, schools and professional learning communities can: Design and implement thematic units for learning Draw from content and language standards to...
Open University Press
McGraw-Hill Education, 2011. — 240 pages.
Becoming a Reflective English Teacher builds firm bridges between theory and practice, exploring how these can be brought together to create powerful contexts for teaching and learning across the broad spectrum of elements of the English secondary curriculum.
By combining both theoretical and practical...
R&L Education, 2010. — 232 p.
Teachers are intuitively aware of the connection between academic vocabulary and reading comprehension. Unfortunately, despite what we know about active instruction of vocabulary that will be retained by our students, teachers often assign vocabulary but rarely teach it well. The results are akin to a salesman who says about his product, 'I sold...
Teacher Resource Guide.Practice & Learn Right Publications, 2001, 54 pages.
Word Family Cards makes learning the basics fun. Reading research proves there are thirty-seven essential rimes (phonograms) children must learn. These common spelling patterns allow children to read and spell over five hundred words. Skilled readers decode words quickly. Rereading word family words helps...
Elizabeth Grugeon, Lyn Dawes, Carol Smith and Lorraine Hubbard. 3rd edition. — London: David Fulton Publishers Ltd., 2005. — 181 pages. A Book on Methodology; This book tackles the sensitive area of teaching and assessing speaking and listening as important aspects of literacy development, at the very early age of children's language learning. The authors put communication and...
Scholastic Teaching Resources, 2006. — 64 p. — ISBN13: 9780439538077
Grades: K - 6
More than 80% of the second language learners in the U.S. are Spanish speaking. In order to succeed in school and beyond, these students need to learn English. This book begins with a snapshot of the research showing the benefits of teaching with cognates — closely-related words from different...
Lorimer, 2000. — 152 p.
This book offers teachers of English fresh insights into how to get children involved in their reading of poetry and fiction.
Donald Gutteridge describes the unique way we read poetry and fiction and offers concrete ideas about how English can be best taught in schools. He argues that students should read literature in the same spirit in which it is...
Jossey-Bass, 2009. — 208 p. — ISBN: 0470390050
This hands–on book offers teachers a much–needed resource that will help maximize learning for English Language Learners (ELLs). How to Teach English Language Learners draws on two wide–ranging teacher quality studies and profiles eight educators who have achieved exceptional results with their ELL students. Through highly readable...
Roost Books, 2010 . - 160 pages ISBN: 1590308379 How do you raise children who love to write? Jennifer Hallissy believes that if you give children a solid foundation of writing basics, they will develop a love of writing that lasts a lifetime. In this book, she shares the secrets for supporting young writers, from the smallest of scribblers to middle-schoolers mastering script....
Roost Books, 2010 . - 160 pages ISBN: 1590308379 How do you raise children who love to write? Jennifer Hallissy believes that if you give children a solid foundation of writing basics, they will develop a love of writing that lasts a lifetime. In this book, she shares the secrets for supporting young writers, from the smallest of scribblers to middle-schoolers mastering script....
Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc., 2006. — 256 p. — ISBN: 0-8058-3715-9 (cloth : alk. paper). Includes bibliographical references and index. Beyond Grammar: Language, Power, and the Classroom asks readers to think about the power of words, the power of language attitudes, and the power of language policies as they play out in communities, in educational...
Libraries Unlimited, 2000. — 264 p. — ISBN: 1563086816.
Aside from guides to more than 40 powerful storytelling exercises, you'll find the Golden List of what an audience really needs from storytelling, a proven, step-by-step system for successfully learning and remembering a story, and the Great-Amazing-Never-Fail Safety Net to prevent storytelling disasters. More than 15,000...
Corwin Press, 2002. — 161 p. The strength of this book lies in its many strategies for English Immersion programs as well as help for the regular teacher as the English learner is mainstreamed. These strategies cover all grades, both elementary and secondary." Nancy Law, Educational Consultant Sacramento City Schools, California Unlock the mystery--and potential--of Structured...
Routledge, 2009. - 436 pages. ISBN: 0805863478, 0415999642, 0203880269
A comprehensive manual for pre- and in-service ESL and EFL educators, this frontline text balances insights from current reading theory and research with highly practical, field-tested strategies for teaching and assessing L2 reading in secondary and post-secondary contexts. Teaching Readers of English:...
2nd edition. — USA: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 1999. — 400 p. Reading-Writing Connections: From Theory to Practice is an extraordinary language arts methods text that enables elementary and middle school teachers to create classroom environments where all students can become lifelong readers and writers. Focusing on developmentally appropriate methods and materials,...
London: Harper Collins, 2008.- with 147. Collins Primary Literacy Teacher’s Guide 1 provides unit-by-unit teaching sequences to save you time in your planning. With clear links to objectives, interactive learning ideas and integrated opportunities for regular assessment, the Teacher’s Guide offers fantastic support for implementing the renewed Framework so you can focus on your...
David Fulton Publishers, 2004. — 304 p. Presenting a range of exciting activities that support the development of creative English lessons within the existing structures of the Foundation Curriculum and the National Curriculum, this book: is packed full of interactive and creative teaching strategies. provides guidance on assessing creative work. highlights opportunities for...
Brookes Publishing, 2014. — 321 p. — ISBN10: 1598573594 Prepare future educators to strengthen the literacy skills of students in Grades 6–12 with this introductory reading textbook, based on the latest research, the Common Core State Standards, and recommended instructional practices. The perfect first text on adolescent literacy, this expertly organized volume covers all the...
Scholastic Publications Ltd., 1994. — 105 p. — ISBN 0-590-53138-7.
This book offers practical assistance to teachers as they respond to the planning and teaching of grammar in the primary curriculum.
The statutory requirements of Attainment Targets and programmes of study are explained and the activities suggest how these requirements can be translated into flexible and...
Routledge, 2023. — 138 p. Enriching Vocabulary in Secondary Schools explores the importance of vocabulary for academic, social, emotional, and employment outcomes. It describes the vulnerability of vocabulary skills in children and adolescents with speech, language, and communication needs (SLCN), and suggests practical ways to support them as they learn. The book contains a...
Pearson, 2004. — 118 p. In keeping with the authors' belief that the hands-on word sorting approach to word study is invaluable to teachers and students alike, this volume presents prepared sorts covering the complete curriculum of word study for the letter name-alphabetic state of spelling development. Complete with 50 blackline masters, specific teacher directions,...
Publisher: Open University Press.
Date : 2009.
Pages : 160.
"The book addresses an impressive range of relevant issues regarding what effective practice involves and how it can be fostered. The authors wisely position their discussion of these issues in the context of overall school improvement efforts, the changes that are occurring in the primary curriculum, and overall...
Scholastic Teaching Resources, 2007. — 64 p. Research shows that partner reading is an effective tool in building reading fluency. The whimsical reproducible poems in this collection were written especially for two students to take turns reading aloud. This experience strengthens both reading and listening skills as students are encouraged to give each other supportive feedback....
Publisher: Scholastic
Date: 2000
Pages: 64
40 Super-Cool Crosswords, Codes, Mazes, and More That Teach the Essential Rules of Grammar
Make Grammar Great Fun!
At last, a collection of grammar lessons and activities kids will actually clamor for! Your students will love these cool crosswords, codes, mazes and more that teach punctuation, capitalization, parts of speech,...
Scholastic, 2000. — 64 p. — (Scholastic Professional Books).
40 Super-Cool Crosswords, Codes, Mazes, and More That Teach the Essential Rules of Grammar
Make Grammar Great Fun!
At last, a collection of grammar lessons and activities kids will actually clamor for! Your students will love these coll crosswords, codes, mazes and more that teach punctuation, capitalization,...
Scholastic Teaching Resources, 2014. — 224 p. This big collection of engaging activity pages will give children lots of opportunities to practice and master more than 50 different word families and 100 key sight words―building blocks that help lay the foundation for reading success. It’s the perfect way to support the learning young children need to excel in school and become...
Routledge, 2022. — 147 p. Essay Writing for Adolescents with Language and Learning Difficulties is a step-by-step guide for educators teaching secondary students with language difficulties how to write an English essay and, more importantly, how to do this on their own. Essay writing is one of the most difficult skills that secondary school students need to develop, though...
Libraries Unlimited, 2001. — 168 p. — ISBN 1563088835.
Filled with ideas, practical tips, useful statistics and other helpful data on teen reading, this book details numerous methods for getting teens to read, such as reading workshops, literature circles, book clubs, and booktalks. An overview of YA literature and annotated bibliographies of both teen and professional reads...
4th ed. — Routledge, 2014. — 416 p. — ISBN10: 0415826454. — ISBN13: 978-0415826457. This popular text, now in its fourth edition, "unpacks" the various dimensions of literacy-linguistic and other sign systems; cognitive; sociocultural; and developmental-and at the same time accounts for the interrelationships among them. Distinguished by its examination of literacy from a...
Routledge, 2010. — 448 p. Now in its third edition, the Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts offers an integrated perspective on the teaching of the English language arts and a comprehensive overview of research in the field. Prominent scholars, researchers, and professional leaders: provide historical and theoretical perspectives about teaching the...
Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development, 2015. — 208 р. Lapp Diane, Moss Barbara, Grant Maria, Johnson Kelly. The Common Core State Standards have put close reading in the spotlight as never before. While elementary school teachers are certainly willing to teach students to closely read both literary and informational text, many are wondering what, exactly, this...
London: Harper Collins, 2008. with 152.
Collins Primary Literacy Teacher’s Guide 2 provides unit-by-unit teaching sequences to save you time in your planning. With clear links to objectives, interactive learning ideas and integrated opportunities for regular assessment, the Teacher’s Guide offers fantastic support for implementing the renewed Framework so you can focus on your...
Jossey-Bass, 2009. — 227 p. — ISBN 0470461322. The Writing Teacher’s Activity-a-Day workbook features classroom-tested methods for boosting secondary students writing skills. The Writing Teacher’s Activity-a-Day offers teachers, homeschoolers, and parents 180 ready-to-use, reproducible activities that enhance writing skills in middle and high school students. Based on...
Scholastic Teaching Resources, 2000. — 80 Pages. ISBN: 0439077494 E-X-P-A-N-D kids' vocabularies and enrich their writing with180 terrific words—one for each day of the school year! Comes complete with clear definitions, model sentences, and "Wordwork" activities that help students master new words through writing, speaking, drawing, acting out definitions, and more. A great...
Oxford. — 17 pages.
It is a full lesson plan for the film Terminal. It is higly useful and interactive with integration of all the language skills. the activities are perfect for even elementary English learners.
Design Classroom Activities on Films
Film used: The Terminal
Level: Form Four students
Number of lessons: about 8-10
Scholastic Teaching Resources, 2009. — 96 p. This collection of 15-minute, fun and engaging writing activities is designed to help students succeed in standardized writing tests. Each sentence-writing activity starts with a model sentence and a quick tip for helping students craft their own sentences, from simple subject-predicate sentences to more detailed compound sentences....
Thompson, 2002. — 212 p. — ISBN10: 090671799X. This evaluation of the theory and practice of ELT takes on board current thinking and previous theory to offer a re-evaulation for the individual teacher and the profession as a whole. The book's main principles are that language consists of grammaticalised lexis not lexicalised grammar, that the grammar/vocabulary dichotomy is...
Literary learning : teaching the English major / Sherry Lee Linkon. -2011, 183 p. Indiana University Press/ (Scholarship of teaching and learning). Preface ix The Literary Mind Making Literary Thinking Visible Course Design for Literary Learning Analyzing Students’ Learning Appendixes Notes
New York, London: Routledge, 2010. — 335 p. Questions about the effectiveness of grammar teaching on literacy development have been so fraught in recent years that they are referred to metaphorically as the Grammar Wars. Are there evidence-based answers to the broad question What explicit knowledge about language in teachers and/or students appears to enhance literacy...
Pearson Australia, 2011 - 114 pages. ISBN: 9781442539440 ISBN10: 1442539445 This book has been designed as a professional resource for English teachers, both practising and pre-service. It can also be used as a set text and framework for course development in secondary English teacher education. Working Grammar provides an introduction to or refresher on grammar, particularly...
Leiden: Brill NV, 2018. — xx, 224 p. — (Critical Literacy Teaching Series: Challenging Authors and Genres Ser.). — ISBN 978-90-04-38929-8, 978-90-04-38930-4, 978-90-04-38931-1. The canon, as much an ideology as it is a body of texts perceived to be intrinsic to the high school English classroom, has come under scrutiny for maintaining status quo narratives about whiteness,...
NY: Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, 2005. - 222 pages. ISBN: 978-0-02-192023-5
Read Alouds help to build children’s listening comprehension. This anthology offers selections from a variety of genres, including biography, fiction, folktales, nonfiction, songs, and poetry, to share with children. Instruction is provided with each selection to develop specific comprehension strategies....
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 140 p. Addresses the needs of very advanced learners who wish to improve their proficiency further. Defines the distinctive learning style of advanced learners and challenges them both by introducing new activities and by engaging them in familiar activities at a higher level of proficiency.
Office of English Language Programs, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, United States Department of State, Washington, D.C. — 1995. — 67 p., ill. Bright Ideas: A Teacher’s Resource Manual offers twenty-six practical teaching strategies and techniques that originally appeared in Ideas Plus, a special series of publications produced by the National Council of Teachers of...
Office of English Language Programs, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, United States Department of State, Washington, D.C. — 67 p., ill. Bright Ideas: A Teacher’s Resource Manual offers twenty-six practical teaching strategies and techniques that originally appeared in Ideas Plus, a special series of publications produced by the National Council of Teachers of...
Learning Matters, 2008. — 189 p. — (Achieving QTS Series). — ISBN10: 1844451380. — ISBN13: 978-1844451388. Primary languages are to be an entitlement for all pupils in KS2 from 2010. There is therefore a need to ensure that trainee primary teachers are equipped with the required skills, knowledge and understanding to contribute to this process.
Publication Date: Dec 1 2004
Students will have oodles of fun building essential reading skills with rib-tickling versions of beloved fairy tales turned into read-aloud plays! Even your most reluctant readers won¹t be able to resist these hilarious twists on their favorite tales‹ Spiderella, Goldilocks and the Three Bullfrogs, The Popsicle Boy, Little Late Riding Hood, The...
Carson-Dellosa Publishing, 2016. — 100 p. — (Interactive Notebooks). — ISBN10: 1483831302, 13 978-1483831305. In Interactive Notebooks: Language Arts for first grade, students will complete hands-on activities about long vowels, sentence structure, nouns, adjectives, story elements, text features, and more. The Interactive Notebooks series spans kindergarten to grade 5. Each...
7th edition. — Learning Matters, 2014. — 256 p. — ISBN: 1446295230, 1446295249
Authors: Jane A. Medwell, David Wray, George E. Moore, Vivienne Griffiths.
The essential subject knowledge text for primary English. Secure subject knowledge and understanding is the foundation of confident, creative and effective teaching. This comprehensive text includes interactive tasks, a self...
Publication Date: November 1, 2006 | Age Range: 10 and up
This collection of reading passages and accompanying crossword puzzles helps students learn new vocabulary and strengthen their skills in decoding word meanings in an engaging way. High-interest narratives, on topics from snakes and wooly mammoths to the treasures of Tutankhamun and the pony express, present 300 vocabulary...
Brookes Publishing, 2013. — 193 pages. What's the connection between reading and writing, and how should they be taught—both together and separately? Discover the answers in this cutting-edge research volume, ideal for use as a graduate-level text or a trusted professional reference. Featuring groundbreaking contributions from a who's who of top-level researchers, this...
2nd edition. — Stenhouse Publishers. — 12 p. In the second edition of Reading with Meaning, Debbie Miller shares her new thinking about comprehension strategy instruction, the gradual release of responsibility instructional model, and planning for student engagement and independence. It has been ten years since the first edition, in which Debbie chronicled a year in her own...
Scholastic Professional Books, 2000. — 128 p. — ISBN: 0439077478 (Grades 3-6) Help students gain writing confidence with this comprehensive collection of easy, super-engaging lessons that invite them to describe a dream, write a mystery story, create a movie review, compose a business letter, and so many more! Everything you need is here: Complete how-to's, quick mini-lessons,...
Scholastics, 1999. — 136 p.
Here is a big collection of cross-curricular poems written especially for classroom use. You'll find poems that are perfect for every day of the school year and just right for teaching about counting colors telling time animals adjectives rhyming friendship and more. Each poem includes a curriculum-based activity or literature link.
Teaching Resources, 2012. — 160 pages. ISBN10: 0545150469 Add poetry to every day of the school year with this bountiful collection bursting with fresh, kid-pleasing verse! Inside, you’ll find the perfect poem for every topic you teach: alphabet, sight words, numbers, math, months, seasons, holidays, science, animals, famous Americans, social studies, and everything in between!...
American Library Association, 2007 - 185 pages. ISBN10: 0-8389-0929-9 ISBN13: 978-0-8389-0929-4 This book is to help educators develop co-teaching strategics to ensure student achievement. It is founded on the belief that two heads—or more—arc better than one. Working together, teacher-librarians, classroom teachers, administrators, and families can create dynamic learning...
ASCD, 2015. 238 pages. — ISBN: 978-1-4166-2035-8 The Common Core State Standards have put close reading in the spotlight as never before. While middle and high school teachers want and need students to connect with, analyze, and learn from both literary and informational texts, many are unsure how to foster the skills students must have in order to develop deep and nuanced...
McGraw-Hill, 2007. — 288 p. — ISBN 0071477020. Help your students develop their grammar skills. Includes hundreds of creative, hands-on activities! If you are looking for supplemental material for your grammar program or are in search of practical exercises that will boost your pupils' language confidence, this invaluable resource has it all! Teach Terrific Grammar, Grades 4-5...
McGraw-Hill, 2010. — 288 p. Help your students develop their writing and proofreading skills with hundreds of creative hands-on activities If you are looking for supplemental material for your writing program or are in search of practical exercises to boost your pupils’ proofreading abilities, this invaluable resource has it all! Teach Terrific Writing, Grades 4–5 features 170...
Corwin Press, 2008. - 184 pages. ISBN: 141295505X, 1412955041 'Nessel and Dixon show teachers how to effectively support English language development by using the Language Experience Approach. David E. Freeman and Yvonne S. Freeman, Professors of Literacy, ESL, and Bilingual Education The University of Texas at Brownsville Provides the tools teachers need to use this natural...
De Gruyter, 2014. — 181 p. — (Dialects of English). — ISBN: 1614512892, 150150889X
This book is the first to examine the English spoken in New York City comprehensively, including pronunciation, grammar, and discourse. Using sources from classic studies to original data, Newman describes New Yorkers' speech in a way that is linguistically rigorous yet accessible to...
US Deartment of Education.
Weston Wood Studios, 1994, 8 pages
A plan for teachers, describing a middle-mouse child Nora bangs windows, slams doors. Based on book by Rosemary Wells. Tasks and text of the book.
Сказка, предназначена для детей младшего дошкольного возраста.
Routledge, 2011. - 207 p. ISBN10: 0415996252 Books in the Teaching English Language Learners (ELLs) across the Curriculum Series are written specifically for pre- and in- service teachers who may not have been trained in ELL techniques, but still find themselves facing the realities and challenges of today's diverse classrooms and learners. Each book provides simple and...
With the Common Core State Standards emphasizing listening and speaking across the curriculum, these long-neglected language arts are regaining a place in schools. For teachers, this means reexamining practices and rethinking expectations. How much do we know about teaching listening and speaking as the complex communication skills they are? How do we teach students to discuss...
Teacher Ideas Press. 2003. 193 pages. ISBN: 1563089874 Обучение английскому языку на материале популярной у молодежи литературы в жанре фэнтэзи. Каждый отрывок снабжен кратким изложением сюжета, списком главных героев, вопросами на понимание текста, упражнениями на развитие словарного запаса, вопросами для обсуждения, справочным разделом и описанием примерных дополнительных...
Carson Dellosa, 2000. — 96 p. Add creativity to your daily curriculum with hundreds of all new unique seasonal and holiday ideas! This book includes: theme-based units, cross-curricular activities, worksheets, and patterns; writing activities; international holidays; bulletin board ideas with instructions and patterns; teacher tips; and much more!
Carson Dellosa, 2000. — 96 p. Add creativity to your daily curriculum with hundreds of all new unique seasonal and holiday ideas! This book includes: theme-based units, cross-curricular activities, worksheets, and patterns; writing activities; international holidays; bulletin board ideas with instructions and patterns; teacher tips; and much more!
Continuum, 2011. - 176 pages. ISBN10: 1441117822 Want to get boys excited about poetry? Try establishing a wiki-war on the use of form and structure. Or perhaps a podcast to develop close analysis of language. How about getting them blogging about their favourite characters? Based on established principles of the best ways to use ICT in English, this practical resource looks at...
Scholastic Teaching Resources, 2009. — 96 p. Beloved poet David L. Harrison has teamed up with fluency expert Timothy Rasinki and Gay Fawcett to create this fun and motivating resource for helping students develop fluency and comprehension. Forty poems written for two voices engage middle-grade students in reading and rereading with a purpose. The companion activities focus on key...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 159 p. — (Alan Maley. Resource Books for Teachers). These range from pre-writing activities, through letters, words, and sentences to the text level. The book recognizes that literacy is not developed overnight, and that time is a crucial ingredient: hence the gradual approach.It is easy for children to become discouraged when learning to write...
6th edition. — Pearson Education Inc., 2012. — 641 p. — ISBN10: 0-13-256606-0; ISBN13: 978-0-13-256606-3. Why is high quality teacher education so critical for literacy teachers? Because research tells us it is the teacher who makes the difference in effective reading instruction. As a capable literacy teacher, you will need to think deeply about your teaching decisions in...
New Ways to Give It More Teaching Power: Great Teacher-Tested and Research-Based Strategies for Organizing and Using Your Library Publication Date: June 1, 2002 | Age Range: 5 - 11 years Does your classroom library enrich and support your instruction? How do you make it a place for both quiet reflection and lively interaction? How can you use your library most effectively for...
Scholastic Teaching Resources, 2005. — 144 p. Age Range: 7 - 8 years Grade Level: 2 - 3 Research shows that explicit vocabulary instruction and a variety of repeated opportunities to use words leads to a deeper understanding of their meanings — and plays a significant role in student achievement. The engaging games, activities, and manipulatives in this resource provide a hands-on...
Paul Chapman Educational Publishing, 2003. — 119 pages. ISBN: 0761943110 This book is an essential classroom guide to the teaching of handwriting. It covers all aspects of the subject, from whole school planning; to classroom management, and the teaching of letters in a highly illustrated and practical sequence, from initial letter forms through to joined writing. The author...
Cambridge University Press, 2000. — xvi, 224 p. — (Cambridge Language Education). — ISBN 0-521-66048-3; 0-521-66938-3. This book is for language teachers and other people who would like to know more about the way vocabulary works. It attempts to provide the background knowledge necessary for practitioners to make informed choices about vocabulary teaching and testing. In most...
Yale University Press, 1999. — 220 p. In this lucid book an eminent scholar, teacher, and author takes a critical look at the nature and direction of English studies in America. Robert Scholes offers a thoughtful and witty intervention in current debates about educational and cultural values and goals, showing how English came to occupy its present place in our educational...
Paperback: 144 pages Publisher: Continuum (4 Mar 2010) Language: English ISBN10: 1847063578 ISBN13: 978-1847063571 This title offers one hundred practical and inspiring ideas for use in the education setting. This book will be essential reading for any teacher involved with children's development in the primary school. Focusing on literacy, the author provides one hundred...
Heinemann, 2010. - 248 pages. For teachers who sometimes feel as if data-based instruction, differentiated groupings, and formative assessments somehow involve going over to The Dark Side, this book is a powerful antidote. It will help you know that you can hold tight to your deepest beliefs about children and literature, classrooms communities, and good teaching.Teaching Reading...
Teacher's Friend, Scholastic Company, 2002. — 144 p. Each creative idea book is filled with on-target reproducible monthly activities that are ready-to-go and make learning fun! Sure to be teachers' favorite go-to resources, these books supplement any curriculum and are brimming with adorable patterns, creative ideas, motivation awards, bookmarks, crafts, bulletin-board...
Teacher's Friend, Scholastic Company, 2002. — 144 p. Each creative idea book is filled with on-target reproducible monthly activities that are ready-to-go and make learning fun! Sure to be teachers' favorite go-to resources, these books supplement any curriculum and are brimming with adorable patterns, creative ideas, motivation awards, bookmarks, crafts, bulletin-board...
Teacher's Friend, Scholastic Company, 2002. — 144 p. Each creative idea book is filled with on-target reproducible monthly activities that are ready-to-go and make learning fun! Sure to be teachers' favorite go-to resources, these books supplement any curriculum and are brimming with adorable patterns, creative ideas, motivation awards, bookmarks, crafts, bulletin-board...
Teacher's Friend, Scholastic Company, 2002. — 144 p. Each creative idea book is filled with on-target reproducible monthly activities that are ready-to-go and make learning fun! Sure to be teachers' favorite go-to resources, these books supplement any curriculum and are brimming with adorable patterns, creative ideas, motivation awards, bookmarks, crafts, bulletin-board...
Teacher's Friend, Scholastic Company, 2002. — 144 p. Each creative idea book is filled with on-target reproducible monthly activities that are ready-to-go and make learning fun! Sure to be teachers' favorite go-to resources, these books supplement any curriculum and are brimming with adorable patterns, creative ideas, motivation awards, bookmarks, crafts, bulletin-board...
Teacher's Friend, Scholastic Company, 2002. — 144 p. Each creative idea book is filled with on-target reproducible monthly activities that are ready-to-go and make learning fun! Sure to be teachers' favorite go-to resources, these books supplement any curriculum and are brimming with adorable patterns, creative ideas, motivation awards, bookmarks, crafts, bulletin-board...
Teacher's Friend, Scholastic Company, 2002. — 144 p. Each creative idea book is filled with on-target reproducible monthly activities that are ready-to-go and make learning fun! Sure to be teachers' favorite go-to resources, these books supplement any curriculum and are brimming with adorable patterns, creative ideas, motivation awards, bookmarks, crafts, bulletin-board...
Teacher's Friend, Scholastic Company, 2002. — 144 p. Each creative idea book is filled with on-target reproducible monthly activities that are ready-to-go and make learning fun! Sure to be teachers' favorite go-to resources, these books supplement any curriculum and are brimming with adorable patterns, creative ideas, motivation awards, bookmarks, crafts, bulletin-board...
Teacher's Friend, Scholastic Company, 2002. — 144 p. Each creative idea book is filled with on-target reproducible monthly activities that are ready-to-go and make learning fun! Sure to be teachers' favorite go-to resources, these books supplement any curriculum and are brimming with adorable patterns, creative ideas, motivation awards, bookmarks, crafts, bulletin-board...
Teacher's Friend, Scholastic Company, 2002. — 144 p. Each creative idea book is filled with on-target reproducible monthly activities that are ready-to-go and make learning fun! Sure to be teachers' favorite go-to resources, these books supplement any curriculum and are brimming with adorable patterns, creative ideas, motivation awards, bookmarks, crafts, bulletin-board...
Teacher's Friend Publications, 2003, 144 pages.
This book has dozens of fun, creative patterns and activities for these holidays and topics: Back to School, Let's Get Ready, Mexican Independence Day, Native Americans, My "Me" Book, Classroom Birthdays, Apple Time and much more.
Activities and ideas integrate with any curriculum along with motivational awards, bookmarks,...
Teacher's Friend, Scholastic Company, 2001. — 112 p. Seasonal Activities for June, July and August. Summer patterns, crafts, activities and ideas for the elementary classroom! Dozens of open-ended activities! Celebrate all of the Summer holidays and themes plus a special chapter for the sport of baseball! All reproducible!
Teacher's friend, a Scholastic Company, 1990,2001. — 112p. ISBN: 0-439-49961-5 A creative idea book for elementary teacher. Written and illustrated by Karen Sevaly, poems by Margaret Bolz. Who uses this book: peschool and elementary teachers along with parents all love the monthly and seasonal idea books. Each idea or craft can easily be adapted to fit a wide range of abilities...
New York: Routledge, 2016. — 230 pages. — ISBN: 1138938688, 9781138938687. Learn how to use role-plays to bring history and literature to life! When students take on the roles of historical or literary figures, they develop a greater understanding of characters’ identities and motivations, and are able to explore and reflect more deeply upon key issues and themes. In this new...
University of Texas System, 2004 - 410 p. A Resource Book for Students at Risk for Reading Difficulties, Including Dyslexia. This resource book presents sets of instructional strategies for beginning reading and is specifically and carefully designed for classroom teachers to use with students who are at-risk for reading difficulties, including dyslexia. When students struggle...
Crown House, 2010. — 218 p. Gathered over 10 years in the classroom, this handbook of tried-and-tested techniques shifts the emphasis away from the teaching and onto the learning, and makes life as a teacher so much easier in the process. Acknowledgements. Foreword. Old Fashioned Teaching with a Lazy Twist. The Lazy Approach to Lesson Outcomes. Structuring the Lazy Lesson....
ASCD. 2013. 216 pages. ISBN: 1416615717; ISBN13: 9781416615712 Your students may recognize words like determine, analyze, and distinguish, but do they understand these words well enough to quickly and completely answer a standardized test question? For example, can they respond to a question that says "determine the point of view of John Adams in his 'Letter on Thomas...
2nd Edition. ASTD, 2011. — 278 pages. This book is an entertaining and practical guide for every trainer and performance improvement professional as it tackles the three universal and persistent questions of the profession—how do learners learn, why do learners learn, and how do you ensure that learning sticks. This interactive book with it fun and breezy style illustrate the...
Surrey, 2006. - 98 p. The resourceful English teacher provides a repertoire of more than 200 classroom activities for use in a wide range of teaching solutions. Practical. Accessible. Concise. Comprehensive. The resourceful English teacher is the essential companion for both the less experienced teacher looking for guidance and ideas, and the more experienced professional in...
Department of Education, 2013 - 79 pages.
ISBN: 978-0-7307-4523-5.
This book highlights the fact that literacy underpins all school learning. It is the vehicle for understanding the specialised language, concepts and skills of each learning area. When students' literacy skills are improved, they are able to process information more effectively, and they have greater...
Publisher: Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd. Date: 2011-06- 28. Pages: 182. It is the goal of this book to provide unique and helpful information to reading and curriculum specialists who are looking for ways to improve the silent reading proficiency of their students. While the background information is, at times, somewhat technical, the recommendations as to the skill areas that...
Format / Quality: PDF
In the March issue of Teachers'Club, we draw your students to World Poetry Day, declared by UNESCO in 1999 as a public holiday that fall on 21 March. Includes job at middle school and high school.
4th edition. — Cottonwood Press, 2009. — 204 p. Language: English. With a wealth of practical lessons and activities—from how to correctly use apostrophes to creating "word snapshot" posters—this guide contains information that can help any English or language arts teacher inspire middle grade and high school students. Because of its humor, accessible content and format, and...
Macquarie University, 2003 - 62 pages.
ISBN: 1 86408 851 6.
The focus of this book is on leaching reading in the classroom and it can be used by teachers at various points within the teaching and learning cycle. It aims to incorporate recent research on reading strategies, vocabulary development, reading fluency and extensive reading into a text-based approach to language...
NY: Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, 2011. — 325 p. — ISBN: 978-0022061876. Set of ten paperback (MACMILLAN McGraw-Hill Treasures Kindergarten level) Unit ACTIVITY BOOKS plus one SMART START Book (11 books in all). These books are designed to be written in. The Smart Start book has 14 pages, and each of the Unit Activity Books has 32 pages. Titles of books in this set are: Smart Start We...
Carson-Dellosa Publishing, 2015. — 100 p. — (Interactive Notebooks). — ISBN10: 1483824683, ISBN13: 978-1483824680. Age Range: 6 and up In Interactive Notebooks: Language Arts for first grade, students will complete hands-on activities about long vowels, sentence structure, nouns, adjectives, story elements, text features, and more. The Interactive Notebooks series spans...
Department of Education WA, 2013 - 212 pages.
ISBN: 978-0-7307-4515-0
The Speaking and Listening Resource Book is designed to help teachers focus on the explicit teaching of the different forms of spoken language; speaking and listening processes, strategies and conventions; and the contextual aspects associated with composing and understanding oral texts.
Hoboken: Jossey-Bass, 2010. — 240 p. Quick, daily classroom lessons for improving students' grammar and writing skills This must-have resource features 180 practical, ready-to-use grammar and usage lessons and activities–one for each day of the school year. The activities included help students in grades 5-12 to acquire, improve, and expand their grammar skills, and become more...
Hoboken: Jossey-Bass, 2010. — 240 p. Quick, daily classroom lessons for improving students' grammar and writing skills This must-have resource features 180 practical, ready-to-use grammar and usage lessons and activities–one for each day of the school year. The activities included help students in grades 5-12 to acquire, improve, and expand their grammar skills, and become more...
Purdue University Press, 2018. — 362 p. — (Purdue Information Literacy Handbooks). — ISBN10: 9781557538284, ASIN 155753828X. This volume, edited by Grace Veach, explores leading approaches to foregrounding information literacy in first-year college writing courses. Chapters describe cross-disciplinary efforts underway across higher education, as well as innovative approaches of...
3d edition. — Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Educational Publishing, 1979. — 289 p. The purpose of Word Resources is to provide the student with a means of acquiring greater facility in the use of words. The book seeks, first of all, to arouse in the reader an appreciation of the importance of vocabulary, an awareness that a command of words is a fairly accurate measure of...
ACER Press, 2008. — 112 p. Literacy skills are fundamental to all areas of learning in the school curriculum but also have a profound impact on an individual's chances of finding satisfying work in the years beyond school. ""Reading and Writing Difficulties"" draws on the latest research from around the world to explain some of the causes of literacy problems and gives...
4th edition. — Routledge, 2011. — xiv, 180 p.
Teaching children to develop as language users is one of the most important tasks of a primary school teacher. However, many trainee teachers begin their career with a low knowledge base.
Language Knowledge for Primary Teachers is the reader-friendly guide designed to address this. This book provides a clear explanation of the...
Milliken Publishing Company, 2001. — 28 pages. — ISBN: 978-1-4291-0969-7
These word puzzle books are an exciting way to enrich students’ vocabularies. A valuable teaching tool that students can use with minimal supervision, word puzzles stimulate an active interest in words and language. These books offer a challenging way to sharpen reasoning skills, stimulate vocabulary, and...
Routledge, 1995. — 137 p. This book focuses on approaches to the teaching of primary English at Key Stage 2 in the context of the National Curriculum. Through a series of guided activities, teachers are encouraged to reflect upon particular teaching strategies and activities such as: an analysis of language and literacy, the processes of language and literacy, the use of topic...
Scholastic Professional Books, 2004, 80 pages. Looking for a way to boost the learning in your spelling program? Mastering spelling words is fun, interesting, and meaningful when teachers use these great activities. Teachers will find exciting games like Spelling Lotto, Bowl of Fortune, and Password hands-on activities like Spelling Posters, Graffiti Board Spelling, and...
Shell Education, 2007. — 174 p. Just what you were looking for-a set of books especially designed for new teachers, pre-service educators, or anyone who is interested in current educational theory and practice. Up-to-date, research-based theory and practical applications make these an invaluable learning tool as well as a perfect quick reference. Perfect for staff development...
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