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Exploring Parks and Playgrounds: Multiplication and Division of Fractions
Several minilessons for multiplication of rational numbers are also included in the unit. These are structured using strings of related problems as a way to explicitly guide learners toward computational fluency.
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Making the Most of Your Core Reading Program: Research-Based Essentials
Offers suggestions for remodeling reading programs, sharing proven methods for teaching whole-group lessons, enhancing vocabulary instruction, supporting reading comprehension, and building fluency and knowledge.
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The Continuum of Literacy Learning, Grades PreK-8: A Guide to Teaching, Second Edition
A combination assessment tool and guide for teaching identifies the literacy goals appropriate to grades PreK-eight and offers tools to help analyze students' strengths and identify areas needing teaching support.
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Reading Aloud Across the Curriculum: How to Build Bridges in Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies
A guide to expanding read-aloud instruction offers advice for planning thematic, content-driven units that use reading aloud to enhance understanding and increase engagement.
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Launch a Primary Writing Workshop: Getting Started with Units of Study for Primary Writing, Grades K-2
Whether writers write just a few labels on items in their pictures or write paragraphs, by the end of this unit all children know that in order to write, a writer fills him or herself with an idea, plans how the text will go, and then draws ...
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Grammar Rants: How a Backstage Tour of Writing Complaints Can Help Students Make Informed, Savvy Choices About Their Writing
Using Grammar Rants in writing classes will: teach students the conventions of different genres raise students' awareness of real world grammatical issues strengthen students' textual analysis and critical thinking skills break that link ...
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An Ethic of Excellence: Building a Culture of Craftsmanship with Students
He argues for a paradigm shift-a schoolwide embrace of an "ethic of excellence" and with a passion for quality describes what's possible when teachers, students, and parents commit to nothing less than the best.
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Climb Inside a Poem: Reading and Writing Poetry Across the Year
Organized into three separate sections, the minilessons in this guide offer tips for outfitting and organizing classrooms where poetry can flourish; highlight a variety of reading strategies that immerse children in the words and music of ...
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Introduction to Problem Solving, Grades 3-5: Second Edition (Math Process Standards Series)
Presents techniques and examples for teaching prekindergarten through second grade students mathematical thinking and problem solving, and includes a CD-ROM containing modifiable activities.
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Accessible Mathematics: Ten Instructional Shifts That Raise Student Achievement
Accessible Mathematics is Leinwand's latest important book for math teachers. In it he focuses on the crucial issue of classroom instruction.
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