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Books as Bridges explores the many advantages of using books as bridges between home and school. It offers teachers strategies for using "touchstone" books to link school literacy conversations and activities with home literacy conversations and activities.
Books as Bridges introduces a process for using children's books to explore four key aspects of literacy - predictable structures, nonfiction, comprehension and imagination and language play. Each literacy aspect is described in terms of a series of strategies, which are highlighted by their use with specific touchstone books, and supported by lists of related books to consider.
Numerous reproducibles and send-home materials, as well as suggestions for supporting families for whom English is not the first language, complement this timely resource.
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Books as Bridges
Books as Bridges
Getting Dads on Board offers teachers effective strategies for attracting,
recruiting, and keeping fathers involved in their children’s literacy learning. Based on the belief that involving fathers early in their children’s learning benefits children, this practical book explores programs that increase children’s cognitive abilities, build self-esteem, and nurture social competence.
This highly-readable book includes stories from many different dads about powerful literacy events that they participated in with their children and what they learned from this experience.
From letters to send home with suggestions for games and activities to tips for organizing workshops and other literacy events, this remarkable book offers new and experienced teachers the tools they need to get and keep dads on board.
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Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781551382340
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Read the review from the
Canadian Teacher Magazine Winter 2009
and one from
Professionally Speaking, the magazine of the
Ontario College of Teachers
Yes, but...
I have to prepare my students for standardized tests.
my class has many students with special needs.
how will I bring parents, principals, and school districts on side?These are only some of the real classroom challenges that face busy teachers every day. This innovative book explores constructive ways teachers can meet the literacy learning needs of a diverse range of students with engaging practices that are both authentic and accountable. The book is committed to connecting students` existing knowledge, experiences, and interests to classroom literacy learning that is relevant and purposeful. At the same time, it offers a wealth of specific curriculum projects that will help teachers both engage students and build skills that will improve test scores. Open its covers today, and discover a curriculum in which students are active participants in making meaning and decisions about their learning.
Author(s): Susan Church, Jane Baskwill & Margaret Swain
Pembroke Publishing
ISBN: 9781551382111
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YES, BUT...IF THEY LIKE IT, THEY'LL LEARN IT!
Complete How To's for Making Manipulative Reading Tools That Kids Can't Resist
"Boost children's understanding of story structures with these adorable, moveable footbooks, jumbo storyboards, wallmats, puppets, and other tools that allow kids to play with print. Includes activities, favorite books, chants and rhymes, and step-by-step instructions. "Scholastic Inc. ISBN 0-590-12877-9
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Based on their belief that classroom teachers are in the best position to know the needs of their students, this approach is designed to fit into your regular classroom schedule.
Scholastic Inc ISBN 0-590-12877-9
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"Children naturally make connections. What happened yesterday is related to what happens today; knowledge is pooled, experiences shared. We can capitalize on this ability and use it to build an interrelated curriculum that gives children opportunities to explore the languages of science, social studies, math and language arts."
Scholastic ISBN 0-590-73458-X
Currently out of print. However, this best seller contains many classroom tested teaching strategies that still apply today. Keep your eyes open when visiting your local used bookseller!
Together, parents and teachers can make learning a positive experience for children. In this honest and candid account, Jane describes her growing concern about the lack of communication between home and school, and the positive action it inspired. She presents a convincing argument that teachers and parents must become partners in the education of their children and offers many practical ideas and strategies to assist them.
Scholastic ISBN 0-590-73187-4
Currently out of print. However, this best seller contains many classroom tested teaching strategies that still apply today. Keep your eyes open when visiting your local used bookseller!
When teachers begin to observe, record and interpret what their children are saying and doing on a daily basis, they discover useful and manageable alternatives to traditional testing procedures, alternatives that are neither difficult nor complicated.
Written with Paulette Whitman
Scholastic ISBN 0-590-71858-4
Currently out of print. However, this best seller contains many classroom tested teaching strategies that still apply today. Keep your eyes open when visiting your local used bookseller!
We and our children constantly produce good writing. A lot of our works deserve to be published. But there are many reasons why few - if any - can be published by commercial publishing houses. Therefore we publish them ourselves, for our own communities.
Written with Paulette Whitman
Scholastic ISBN 0-590-71369-8
Currently out of print. However, this best seller contains many classroom tested teaching strategies that still apply today. Keep your eyes open when visiting your local used bookseller!
Currently out of print. However, these best sellers contain many classroom tested teaching strategies that still apply today. Keep your eyes open when visiting your local used bookseller!
