Reflections

Reflections
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: California
ISBN: 9780153385025

Part of the History-social science series created to follow the California standards and framework, providing stories of the important people, places, geography, and events which shaped the state of California and the country.

Strategic Writing Mini-Lessons for All Students, Grades 4–8

Strategic Writing Mini-Lessons for All Students, Grades 4–8
Author: Janet C. Richards
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2012-11-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1452279780

Power up writing instruction with short, differentiated lessons! The hard reality? By the time they reach middle school, many of our students still lack basic writing skills, and this is their last opportunity to get up to speed before they reach high school. This toolbox of 23 mini-lessons will help you intervene and develop confident, competent writers. You'll find: Proven lessons that develop four essential writing strategies: inventing, drafting, revising, and editing Adaptations for struggling writers, English Language Learners, and advanced writers, with visual tools A schematic linking lessons to Common Core grade-level goals

Literature-Based Teaching in the Content Areas

Literature-Based Teaching in the Content Areas
Author: Carole Cox
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2011-01-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1452223661

Grounded in theory and best-practices research, this practical text provides teachers with 40 strategies for using fiction and non-fiction trade books to teach in five key content areas: language arts and reading, social studies, mathematics, science, and the arts. Each strategy provides everything a teacher needs to get started: a classroom example that models the strategy, a research-based rationale, relevant content standards, suggested books, reader-response questions and prompts, assessment ideas, examples of how to adapt the strategy for different grade levels (K–2, 3–5, and 6–8), and ideas for differentiating instruction for English language learners and struggling students. Throughout the book, student work samples and classroom vignettes bring the content to life.

Content Area Literacy for Diverse Learners

Content Area Literacy for Diverse Learners
Author: Virginia McCormack
Publisher: Wheatmark, Inc.
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2008
Genre: Content area reading
ISBN: 1604941413

" ... contains useful information and concepts that teachers can apply in the classroom and other instructional settings. ... There is also a detailed resource section listing children's literature and websites that can enhance your instructional practice ... This helpful and comprehensive resource can be used by preservice teachers, by experienced teachers and administrators, for development of staff at all levels, and by individuals in Alternate Route Teacher Certification programs."--Page 4 of cover

Succeeding With Struggling Students

Succeeding With Struggling Students
Author: Marti Richardson
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2006-10-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1483362310

This innovative resource presents program planning tools that can be customized for local school and district needs in planning effective interventions to benefit struggling students.

Technology and Students with Special Educational Needs

Technology and Students with Special Educational Needs
Author: Adina Shamir
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2016-04-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134913109

Heterogeneous classes including students with Special Educational Needs (SEN) are increasingly becoming fixtures of the twenty-first century school. As a result, the question of how to devise more effective, innovative and diverse tools has posed a significant challenge for educators and the research community. This collection considers how technology may provide SEN children with greater opportunities to acquire academic skills, while preparing them for a successful transition to adulthood. Computers, and other new technologies, hold great promise for facilitating the inclusion of SEN individuals into modern society. Precisely because they are characterized by multiple representations of knowledge, computerized learning environments offer effective support tools for the instruction of SEN students faced with barriers that make learning a more complex process. Yet, despite the blossoming of this field, research on how the use of technology may benefit SEN students is in its early stages. The development of the theoretical knowledge and empirical databases necessary to assess the impact of computers on learners’ characteristics and educators' teaching goals lag behind the introduction of the respective technological innovations. To meet this challenge, this volume presents a review of the latest advances in how new technologies and their software may potentially enhance SEN students' performance, in school and out. This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of Special Needs.

The World of Science Education

The World of Science Education
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9460910475

The focus of this Handbook is on science education in Arab states and the scholarship that most closely supports this program. The reviews of the research situate what has been accomplished within a given field in an Arab rather than an international context.

Reading Comprehension Boosters

Reading Comprehension Boosters
Author: Thomas G. Gunning
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2010-04-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0470399929

An effective resource for improving young students' comprehension skills With 100 high-interest reading activities, this book is designed to help students gain fundamental comprehension skills so they can succeed in reading complex and varied types of texts. Each lesson includes a brief reading selection followed by questions, multiple-choice selections, and thinking and writing activities. The activities, all on reproducible worksheets, can be used to give individual students or groups extra practice, or as supplemental skill-building and test-prep activities for the full class. Activities are grouped within seven units, each focusing on an important aspect of comprehension Units increase in difficulty level so that students gain proficiency as they work through the material High-interest themes include stories about robots, animal helpers, space, and famous people Offers activities that build the advanced cognitive skills called for in the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) Each lesson includes a teacher section with guidance on how to introduce the activities to students and support them in their reading practices.