Product Description
Contains the pages of the student literacy activity book, with teacher's information and answers in red. ... Read more

Product Description
A series of seven photocopiable activity books providing practical help for teachers and parents in improving children's literacy skills. Each book focuses on helping children read, write and perform poetry and the series covers the entire range of poems outlined in the Framework for Teaching." ... Read more

Product Description
An activity book for children at Year 4 level, designed to develop literacy. It is part of a series of seven volumes which cover the Word level, Sentence level and Text level objectives of the National Literacy Strategy Framework for Teaching from Reception to Year 6. Each title develops the children's skills in reading comprehension and writing composition for a variety of non-fiction texts. There are simple teaching notes in the introduction of the book, which should be useful for non-specialists and parents. ... Read more

Product Description
This digital document is an article from Reading Improvement, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2006. The length of the article is 3554 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: Families and school personnel involved in a literacy and physical activity partnership.
Author: James A. Richardson
Publication: Reading Improvement (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 43Issue: 3Page: 129(7)

Distributed by Thomson Gale ... Read more

Product Description

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. ... Read more

Product Description
Differentiated instruction is the hallmark of good teaching. However, developing leveled materials and creating an organizational system to manage it all is an immense undertaking. In this comprehensive resource, veteran teacher and staff developer Margo Southall shares management tools along with hundreds of leveled activities that she has fine-tuned over the years. The result is an invaluable collection of research-based activities that enable teachers to match independent practice with students' needs in reading comprehension, fluency, word study, and writing. Moreover, Southall provides a workable framework that makes setting up the centers and tracking student progress simple. Includes dozens of planning sheets and record-keeping forms in addition to reproducible student pages. Meets Reading First and NCLB guidelines. For use with Grades K–3. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (4)

decent lit. centers book
This book has some great and usable ideas.Somethe pages were a bit wordy for first grade and I was expecting a bit more from the book, but I did find a lot that I can add to my centers right away.

Unexpected
I was hoping to find more activities in the book that I could immediately copy and use.It was more of a specific organized plan for your centers.

A time saver
This book has so many open ended activites to use in centers that the possibilities are endless.The activities focus on three main areas-Comprehension, Fluency, and word study.What is really helpful is that there are activites at 3 different levels for all areas, which makes planning a breeze.I wish I had found this book years ago instead of wasting my time making file folder games,etc.Along with the three centers represented in this book I will have a writing and listening center--and I am set for the year!

Excellent resource!
Differentiated Literacy Centers is an outstanding and thorough resource that is based upon sound research.The structure of this book made it easy to read and to quickly find key elements: tips on organization and time management of centers, comprehension, fluency and word study activities, in addition to corresponding blackline masters.Options for planning are outlined in different frameworks.All questions that you may have are answered and the author includes a quick-glance summary for each area.I highly recommend this book! ... Read more

Product Description
Authors Fiona Hunt and Jane Birks have tackled the 21st century digital information environment to bring you a new collection of library and classroom activities that support both secondary and undergraduate college students information literacy skill development. The book s 20 activities are suitable for both mainstream and ESL environments, and feature strategies to help students determine their information needs, access and evaluate information, and use and cite information ethically. Adaptable and easy-to-use exercises focus on the use of keywords, brainstorming, library orientation, search strings, evaluation of information, citation tips, and avoiding plagiarism, and a companion CDROM includes all supporting handouts, worksheets and answer keys. While today s students may be Web-savvy, they are not necessarily information literate. This book will help you teach the strategies and techniques of intelligent information use, engaging students in active, productive explorations of the library and its resources. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

A must acquire for librarians
If you tell someone something, they know that fact. If you teach someone to find out the fact themselves, they can get any fact they desire. "More Hands-On Information Literacy Activities" is a guide aimed at librarians in educating their patrons to use the resources of the library. Expanding on the subjects presented in the earlier volumes, Hunt & Birks offer more knowledge and wisdom of educators and how to inspire research in patrons. The library is still the modern ideal source for good, factual research, and knowing how to use it to its fullest extent is a solid skill. Enhanced with a CD-ROM full of activities, "More Hands-On Information Literacy Activities" is a must acquire for librarians.
... Read more

Product Description

Children love to pretend, and dramatic play is the perfect environment for children to practice and apply literacy concepts. Whether they decide to be firefighters, to open a pet store, or to have a tea party, children will increase their vocabulary, communicate with their peers, and learn to recognize environmental print--all important skills for prereaders. Literacy Play is chock-full of creative dramatic play activities that teach important pre-reading skills while bringing children's imaginations to life!

Amy Cox has been a supervising teacher in the Melba S. Lehner Children's School at Weber State University for the past nine years.

Sherrie West is a mentor teacher for Head Start at the Ogden Area Community Action Agency.

Customer Reviews (2)

love it
love it; great ideas for dramatic play and literacy activities; my preschooler loves doing them and it's time well spent;the best learning takes place when kids don't feel they're being "schooled" and this definitely fits the bill

This book had great ideas and printables!!!!
This book had great ideas for any dramatic play area.
I have used quite a few in my dramatic play area at school.
I also enjoyed the printables in the back of the book. ... Read more

Product Description

Customer Reviews (1)

A must have for teachers and parents!
As an early childhood professional, this is one of my favorite activity resources. We hear so much about the importance of environmental print in building early literacy skills, and this book shows how to incorporate these types of experiences in meaningful ways into the daily life of the classroom.The book is laid out the way teachers think and plan, with chapters divided into the various learning centers of a typical early childhood classroom.There is also a very useful "Theme Connections" index that ties the various activities to popular pre-k and kindergarten theme units, making lesson planning a breeze.

The over 100 activity ideas included are simple, inexpensive, and wonderfully unique.The literacy learning objectives listed for each activity are a real help when trying to match specific activities to the different developmental levels and needs of the children in the group.And because these activities use everyday print items and recyclables that are so readily available, I have found it simple to adapt many of the activities to use with my own child at home.

What a gem!I recommend this resource for anyone who wants to help children see themselves as readers. ... Read more

Product Description
This comprehensive collection of interactive learning activities (with free CD-ROM)is designed to develop key information literacy skills—determining the nature and extent of the information need; accessing information; evaluating information and sources; and adhering to ethical practices in the use of information. The included activities for over 20 instructional sessions support a variety of learning styles. All have been tested successfully with both secondary school and undergraduate college students, including ESL students. Exercises focus on the library catalog, search engines, databases, search strings, Boolean and advanced searching, and types of information. The organization is flexible allowing you to use the lessons in any order or any grouping that meets the needs of your students and situation. A particularly useful feature for instructors provides the expected or desired answer to discussion questions and exercises within square brackets. The package includes a CD-ROM with all of the activity materials and handouts included in Microsoft Word format for easy customization. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

Each activity has been successfully tested
Hands-On Information Literacy Activities by Information Literacy Librarians Jane Birks and Fiona Hunt (working on the Dubai and Abu Dhabi campuses of Zayed University in the United Arab Emirates) is an impressively presented multimedia resource for high school and college librarians and teachers for instructing children and young adults on how to assess their information ;needs and address them with library catalogues, search engines, databases, search strings, Boolean and other advanced searching techniques. Each activity has been successfully tested with both secondary school and undergraduate college students. Ethical practices in the use of information is provided special attention. Enhanced with an accompanying CD-ROM containing all the activity materials and handouts in Microsoft Word for easy customization, Hands-On Information Literacy Activities is an enthusiastically recommended addition to Library Science and Education Department reference collections and supplemental reading lists. ... Read more

Product Description
Middle and high school coaches and content teachers: Here are great suggestions for teaching comprehension skills to students at varied reading levels and from different cultures and linguistic backgrounds.

This second edition of Jeff Zwiers' bestseller features more than 80 classroom-tested, research-based ideas. These engaging activities are organized around six strategies of reading comprehension that need to become habits:

Organizing text information by sculpting the main idea and summarizing
Connecting to background knowledge
Making inferences and predictions
Generating and answering questions
Understanding and remembering word meanings
Monitoring one's own comprehension

You'll also find 35 reproducible graphic organizers and variations on the activities to help support English learners, struggling readers, and other students who need extra support.

The International Reading Association is the world's premier organization of literacy professionals. Our titles promote reading by providing professional development to continuously advance the quality of literacy instruction and research.

Research-based, classroom-tested, and peer-reviewed, IRA titles are among the highest quality tools that help literacy professionals do their jobs better.

Some of the many areas we publish in include:

-Comprehension
-Response To Intervention/Struggling Readers
-Early Literacy
-Adolescent Literacy
-Assessment
-Literacy Coaching
-Research And Policy ... Read more

Customer Reviews (6)

Great resource!
This book is a great resource for scientifically sound strategies for teaching reading. It is chock full of good chapters and an excellent resource for graphic organizers. The strategies and organizers have been ramped up to be relevant for teenage learners and teachers who expect students to arrive in their high school classrooms already knowing how to read, but who still need some direct instruction and specific strategies for being successful in school. THis resource would be helpful for typical, special ed, esl, all learners.

Not for upper grades
This is a great book for teachers instructing the lower grade levels or ELL classes.Very easy assignments that are great for practicing foundation skills; by grade 11 & 12 the foundation should be solidly in place, making this paper too low of an expectation for students from teachers at this grade level.

Great tips on teaching
Mr. Zwiers has come up with some great reading activities for the classroom. They are easy to understand and modify. It is a great resource for teachers looking for ways to reach their students.

Reading Comp Made Easy
This book gives good strategies to use with students to increase their reading comprehension. I am using the textbook for my reading and writing class but I know I will refer to it once I start teaching.

Great Ideas
The book arrived in time for me to use it for my Master's class. It was also utilized by a friend of mine who is already a teacher. She said the book is one of the best she's seen and needs to be used as textbook by Master's Programs in Education.
This is definitely a must-have for anybody who is going into teaching ... Read more

Product Description
For secondary reading specialists and English teachers, this practical resource provides over 200 ready-to-reproduce lessons and exercises to teach and reinforce basic reading skills with students of all abilities. Each lesson includes an Instructor's Page with background information and teaching suggestions followed by one or more Student Skill sheets designed for sequential development of skills that build to higher levels of reading proficiency within each section. Organized into 7 sections: Reading for Deeper Meanings, Reading and Vocabulary, Reading Diagrams: Charts, Tables & Graphs, Reading Pictures: Cartoons & Maps, Reading & Study Skills, Reading & Its Writing Connection, and Reading & Research. These lessons and activities are completely flexible and can be used with individual students or an entire class to meet particular corrective or remedial reading skill needs. ... Read more

Product Description
The Cricket Chronicles presents an extensive integrated unit of study focused on that familiar insect_the cricket. Teachers are given a complete guide and reproducible worksheets for elementary and middle school students. With more than 30 different activities on crickets, students learn science content and skills including: _ ... Read more

Product Description
Classic nursery rhymes are used to promote literacy skills including phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Each rhyme is accompanied by a wide variety of full-color materials to engage students in whole group, center, and individual literacy activities. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

Full color makes it easy to use!
I purchased this book for my kindergarten classroom.My time is too valuable to spend it coloring.This book has full color pages that I can just laminate and use in my classroom.It also has sentence strips for the pocket chart and black line masters for the children's follow-up and retelling activities.I will use Humpty Dumpty first out of this one.Karen ... Read more