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.

Month-By-Month Spanish Write & Read Books

Month-By-Month Spanish Write & Read Books
Author: Veronica Robillard
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2002-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780439178983

Your emergent readers and writers will love to help write and illustrate these adorable, predictable books! Just photocopy the book patterns and invite kids to fill in the blanks for their own personalized books to read in school or at home. Includes favorite topics for each month: welcome to school, seasons, apples, spiders, Thanksgiving, 100th Day, and more. All in Spanish! Book jacket.

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.

Once Upon a Time

Once Upon a Time
Author: Judy Freeman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2007-10-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 031309568X

Judy Freeman, author of the Books Kids Will Sit Still For series, gives practical how-to tips on how to tell a story, and write and stage a Reader's Theater script that gets children involved with creative drama. Reader's theater teaches children how to become better listeners, enriches their thinking skills, and encourages their response to literature. Included are ideas on using folk and fairy tales, songs, chants and nonsense rhymes, and a reader's theater script. Also included in this handbook are 400 plus annotated children's books every storyteller should know, 100 great titles for creative drama and reader's theatre and professional books and Web sites for storytelling, creative drama and reader's theater. Grades PreK-6. Judy Freeman, author of the Books Kids Will Sit Still For series, gives personal and practical how-to tips on how to learn and tell a story, how to act out a story using creative drama, and how to write and stage a Reader's Theater script. All are guaranteed to get your children listening, thinking, reading, loving, and living stories with comprehension, fluency, expression, and joy. Once Upon a Time pulls together a wealth of ideas, activities, and strategies for using folk and fairy tales, songs, chants, and nonsense rhymes. Also included in this handbook are the texts of 10 of Judy's favorite stories you can read today and tell tomorrow; a songbook of songs, chants, and nonsense rhymes; and a Reader's Theater script. You'll also find annotated bibliographies: 400+ children's books every storyteller should know; 100+ great children's books to use for creative drama and Reader's Theater; professional books and Web sites for storytelling, creative drama, and Reader's Theater; and a title and author index. Chapters include: ; Getting Started with Storytelling ; Judy Freeman's Songbook: Including Songs, Chants, Riddles, and Plenty of Nonsense ; Judy Freeman's Storybook: Tales You can Hear Today and Tell Tomorrow ; 400+ Children's Books Every Storyteller Should Know ; Getting Started with Creative Drama and Reader's Theater ; 100+ Children's Books Just Right for Creative Drama and/or Reader's Theater

Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts

Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts
Author: Diane Lapp
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2011-01-18
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136886567

Now in its third edition, the Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts—sponsored by the International Reading Association and the National Council of Teachers of English—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 language arts focus on bodies of research that influence decision making within the teaching of the language arts explore the environments for language arts teaching reflect on methods and materials for instruction Reflecting important recent developments in the field, the Third Edition is restructured, updated, and includes many new contributors. More emphasis is given in this edition to the learner, multiple texts, learning, and sharing one’s knowledge. A Companion Website, new for this edition, provides PowerPoint® slides highlighting the main points of each chapter.

The SAGE Handbook of Early Childhood Literacy

The SAGE Handbook of Early Childhood Literacy
Author: Joanne Larson
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 960
Release: 2012-11-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1473971241

This new edition of the much-loved Handbook of Early Childhood Literacy has been revised and updated to retain its cutting-edge focus on emergent and important areas of research. This comprehensive work guides the reader through current social, cultural and historical analysis on a global scale. The new edition contains a greater range of methodologies, and chapters on: - space and literacy - disabilities and early childhood literacy - digital literacies - indigenous literacy - play and literacy - policy In the Handbook, readers will find coverage of all the key topics in early childhood literacy. The exceptional list of contributors offers in-depth expertise in their respective areas of knowledge. The Handbook is essential for Undergraduate students; Masters students; PhD students; CPD students; researchers, and literacy-centre personel. ′The second edition of this internationally respected and widely used text encompases a myriad of new issues and insights, both through new contributions and thoughtfully revised chapters which raise fresh questions and challenges for research and practice. In pushing the boundaries still further, the handbook retains its rightful place at the forefront of research into early childhood literacy practice in the 21st century′ -Professor Teresa Cremin, Open University UK ′This handbook provides in-depth knowledge of insights and theories about the dynamic process of how children come to know literacy as thinking humans in social and cultural spaces. There is a rich array of research perspectives of children′s meaning-making through family and digital liteacies, play and literacy, and in-school and out-of-school literacy experiences′ - Yetta Goodman, Regents Professor, University of Arizona