Monday, January 16, 2012

New Professional Resources

Bringing Grammar to Life - Deborah Dean
Presents how to use everyday sources from textbooks to advertisements to incorporate an integrated approach to grammar instruction.

What Should I Read Aloud? - Nancy A. Anderson
Suggests and describes two hundred best-selling picture books, arranged by topic or theme within age levels from infant to eight years, for parents to read to children, and provides guidance and tools for understanding and fostering the reading development of one's child.

Scaffolding with Storybooks - Laura M. Justice
Presents a practical guide that helps to develop literacy skills in the preschool, kindergarten, and first-grade classroom; and provides strategies to strengthen children's knowledge of written language, vocabulary, the alphabet, and more.

A Comprehensive Guide to Readers Theatre - Alison Black
Presents a comprehensive guide to readers theatre that shows how to implement Readers Theatre in the classroom as well as meet current literacy standards.

Helping Children Become Readers Through Writing - Arlene C. Schulze
Examines research related to the effectiveness of writing workshops in kindergarten, presents a sample kindergarten schedule that includes a writing workshop, explains how to plan for and structure a workshop, discusses the importance of having teachers share their own writing process with students, considers assessment and reporting, and includes writing samples, and reflections from educators.

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