25 Just-right Plays for Emergent Readers

25 Just-right Plays for Emergent Readers
Author: Carol Pugliano-Martin
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 70
Release: 1998
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780590189453

Turn your classroom into a readers' theater with this delightful collection of short, simple plays on themes kids adore-pets, dinosaurs, space, losing a tooth, birthday parties, making new friends, going to school, and many more. These lively plays include adorable illustrations that support the text as well as rhymes, repition, and predictable language to help bolster young children's reading and oral language skills. Comes complete with teaching strategies and cross-curricular extensions. For use with Grades K-1.

25 Science Plays for Emergent Readers

25 Science Plays for Emergent Readers
Author: Sheryl Ann Crawford
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2001
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780439117609

Reproducible plays with extension activities that build literacy and invite kids to explore favorite science topics.

Just-Right Plays: 15 Plays About Famous Americans For Emergent Readers

Just-Right Plays: 15 Plays About Famous Americans For Emergent Readers
Author: Carol Pugliano-Martin
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2002-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780439323338

Connect reading and social studies with 15 engaging and easy-to-read plays about famous Americans such as George Washington, Betsy Ross, Martin Luther King, Jr., Pocahontas, Harriet Tubman, and more! Kids will enjoy learning about these fascinating figures while building reading and oral-language skills. Designed for emergent readers, the plays feature simple, predictable language, as well as rhyme and repetition. Includes background information and extension activities. For use with Grades K-2.

Comprehension During Guided, Shared, and Independent Reading, Grades K - 6

Comprehension During Guided, Shared, and Independent Reading, Grades K - 6
Author: Cunningham
Publisher: Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2011-04-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1609963636

Learn when and how to teach comprehension using Comprehension during Guided, Shared, and Independent Reading for grades K–6. This 224-page book includes step-by-step lessons and research-based strategies that can be adapted for any student or any classroom. This book gives a glimpse into classrooms using these strategies, as well as suggestions for materials needed, planning, and grouping students and a list of recommended children's books.

Nonfiction Readers Theatre for Beginning Readers

Nonfiction Readers Theatre for Beginning Readers
Author: Anthony D. Fredericks
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2007-04-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0313094659

Teachers and librarians are continually looking for an interesting, fun way to input content knowledge to build that background information which will help push up student expository reading scores. Nonfiction readers theatre is one way to accomplish this. Professor Fredericks offers 30 short nonfiction readers theatre plays for the young reader (grades 1-3) on topics ranging from earth and natural science to community helpers, holidays, and government. Test scores across the country show American students are far more able to read narrative than nonfiction text. Some research speculates this is due to a great lack in the background knowledge of many children. Librarians are beginning to realize that a unique fit for the school librarian is as a provider of background knowledge materials for teachers to use.

Mother Goose Readers Theatre for Beginning Readers

Mother Goose Readers Theatre for Beginning Readers
Author: Anthony D. Fredericks
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2007-05-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0313094799

Written for children reading at first and second grade levels, this readers theatre book uses Mother Goose rhymes as its basis, making it especially valuable to teachers and librarians working on building fluency skills in their beginning readers. The book offers plays based on well-known rhymes, complete with presentation and instructional follow up suggestions. The author also offers staging diagrams that enable teachers to use each script with entire classrooms of students, and he includes lists of further teaching resources for each play as well. Reading levels are based on accepted readability formulas. Several of the scripts feature simultaneous Spanish translations—a real plus for ELL programs. An introductory chapter discusses the educational value of using readers theatre with young readers and ELL students. Grades 1 and 2.

How to Get Your Child to Love Reading

How to Get Your Child to Love Reading
Author: Esmé Raji Codell
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Total Pages: 548
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781565123083

Offers advice and guidelines on how to expand a child's world through books and reading, introducing three thousand teacher-recommended book titles, craft ideas, projects, recipes, and reading club tips.

25 Spanish Plays for Emergent Readers (Grades K-1)

25 Spanish Plays for Emergent Readers (Grades K-1)
Author: Carol Pugliano-Martin
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1999-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780439105460

More than 24 lively all-Spanish plays bolster Spanish language skills through rhymes and repetition with friendly themes, including pets, space, dinosaurs and more. Illustrations throughout.

Exemplary Literacy Teachers, Second Edition

Exemplary Literacy Teachers, Second Edition
Author: Cathy Collins Block
Publisher: Guilford Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2009-04-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1606233696

Identifying what exemplary teachers know and do to promote literacy achievement at every grade level, this highly motivating book provides step-by-step guidance for professional development. It helps teachers assess their strengths and build their competencies in six key domains of literacy instruction directly linked to student success. Featuring skills-building exercises, sample lesson plans, book lists, and over a dozen reproducibles, the book illustrates specific actions that teachers can take to emulate their most effective colleagues in school districts around the country. New to This Edition * Revised and updated based on the authors' professional development work with over 20,000 educators. * Expanded to cover K–12 (prior edition covered K–5). * Now includes material for literacy coaches and administrators, as well as teachers. * "Teacher-in-Action" cases offer vivid snapshots of exemplary practices. *Many of the activities and reproducibles are new or revised.

MORE Tadpole Tales and Other Totally Terrific Treats for Readers Theatre

MORE Tadpole Tales and Other Totally Terrific Treats for Readers Theatre
Author: Anthony D. Fredericks
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2010-09-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1598843834

In this book, funny tales and rhymes are presented as readers theatre scripts, specifically written to motivate beginning readers. Readers theatre continues to be popular with teachers and librarians endeavoring to enhance reading fluency. Humorous scripts are particularly in demand. In MORE Tadpole Tales and Other Totally Terrific Treats for Readers Theatre, bestselling author Tony Fredericks presents all-new scripts based on fractured fairy and folk tales. Building on the delightful and wildly humorous stories of his Tadpole Tales and Other Totally Terrific Treats for Readers Theatre, Fredericks offers more than two dozen reproducible, satirical, and downright funny scripts that will reinvigorate and reenergize the elementary language arts curriculum. Specifically targeted at beginning readers, his sidesplitting send-ups and wacky, fractured tales are guaranteed to bring snickers, chuckles, and belly laughs into any classroom, get everyone involved in production—and motivate kids to love reading.