Book Review: "The Teaching For Understanding Guide - 5 views
I don't think I've seen this book before. It sounds intriguing. I'll have to check it out.
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Book Review: The Daily 5 - 18 views
This book is a wonderful! The students become very independent and teachers are able to work with guided reading groups or individual conferences. It amazing what students can be trained to do with...
Book Review: "The Book Whisperer" by Donalyn Miller - 9 views
I have heard a lot about this book in recent months. The hand selection of books is amazing. I could not imagine doing that for my students. I like a lot of the ideas that you wrote about like t...
Book Review: 7 Keys to Comprehension: How to Help Your Kids Read and Get It - 5 views
I haven't seen too many books that are equally useful for teachers and parents. I'll have to take a look at this book. Might be something to pick up for door prizes for our parent involvement activ...
Book Review: Derrick Jensen's walking on Water - 1 views
I choose Derrick Jensen's book Walking on Water to review, mainly because he offers specific details on how to reform education, but focuses on students' attitudes on writing and reading. Jensen te...
Book Review: Clock Watchers: Six Steps to Motivating and Engaging Disengaged Students ... - 8 views
Great question I didn't address in the review. All the examples used are middle to high school oriented and seem to require a level of maturity that elementary students would not possess. I think...
Book Review: The Leader in Me - 7 views
Book Review: The Leader in Me by Stephen R. Covey Summary/Main Idea: Stephen Covey is also the author of the world recognized book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. In this book, s...
Book Review: It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend: Helping the Child with Learning Disab... - 7 views
I own this book in my collection too Scott. I love the works of Richard Lavoie. The special education field is a rewarding one, and with more insight we teachers can help students with a variety ...
Book Review: Classroom Instruction that Works - 11 views
Please know that I genuinely am trying to get everything back within a week. Really, I am! ;)
Book Review: The Way They Learn: How to discover and teach to your child's strengths - 4 views
It's so interesting to me how some people don't buy into the "different learning styles" theory. I really want to check out this book now! I like how it seems to incorporate the idea that, yes, eve...
Book Review: The Cafe Book: Engaging All Students in Daily Literary Assessment and Inst... - 1 views
by Anna Scott (reposted as a topic) The Café Book is written by The Two Sisters, Joan Moser and Gail Boushey. The book is written in conjunction with The Daily 5, also written by them. The Daily...
Book Review: Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About it - 4 views
This definitely sounds like a worthwhile read! I often feel we kill the joy of reading by always trying to move on quickly and tie every bit to testing! I always try to carefully look at where to...
Book Review: I Read It, But I Don't Get It: Comprehension Strategies for Adolescent Re... - 7 views
I Read It, But I Don't Get It: Comprehension Strategies for Adolescent Readers is a great resource for implementing reading comprehension strategies in the secondary classroom. The book is written ...
Book Review: Teaching Text Structures (A Key to Nonfiction Reading Success) - 4 views
This is a phenomenal book for teaching text structures. For those who aren't familiar with text structure, it's basically the format that an author chooses to write a text in. Text structure is usu...
Book Review: To Be A Boy, To Be A Reader; Engaging Teen and Preteen Boys in Active Lit... - 3 views
Brozo, William G., 2002. International Reading Association. http://www.amazon.com/To-Boy-Reader-Engaging-Literacy/dp/0872075087/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1331505635&sr=1-1 The author sugge...
Journal 1: If You Lead Horses to Water They Will Drink: Introducing Second Language Adu... - 13 views
The article is available through ERIC: http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED423718.pdf
Journal #2: Learning to Use Diverse Children's Literature in the Classroom: A Model for... - 7 views
I appreciate how you demonstrated that this article made you think about your own classroom, and changes you want to make.
Book Review: Change is Gonna Come, Transforming Literacy Education for African American... - 10 views
This sounds like an interesting read. I have a couple of journal articles you might like. I have always been interested in this subject, because part of my own journey toward literacy has been ba...
Book Review: After The End......Written By: Barry Lane - 7 views
If you are a English/Language Arts teacher then this book is for you. Barry Lane is brillant and creative in this book entitled, After The End. How many times do students approach two minutes after...
Book Review: 99 Ideas and Activities for Teaching English Learners with The SIOP Model ... - 2 views
"I have found it easiest to focus on using one strategy at a time and practice using it until it becomes part of my routine." This is excellent advice for applying almost anything new in the classr...