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Time Zones, Second Edition is a four-skills program designed to
teach teenagers how to use English effectively, developing them
into successful global citizens.
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Impact helps teenage learners to better understand themselves, each
other, and the world they live in. By encouraging self-expression,
global citizenship, and active participation, Impact motivates
students to explore who they are and who they want to be, all while
learning English!
Through life-changing stories, respected thinkers and authentic
presentations, Keynote promotes a deeper understanding of the world
and gives students the courage and means to express themselves in
English. Communication, collaboration and creative thinking drive
students towards real 21st century outcomes and encourage them to
respond to ideas and find their own voice. Both students and
teachers will emerge with new confidence, new ideas and a new
determination to communicate in this increasingly information-rich
world of Global English.
English Explorer is a motivating new four-level series for students
at secondary level, with a strong international focus. It combines
a communicative approach to learning English with stunning National
Geographic images, video, and content. With English Explorer,
students EXPLORE amazing places and fascinating cultures with
National Geographic, bringing real people, real places, and real
stories into the English language classroom LEARN how to use
English to communicate effectively in the real world, by developing
language skills through age-appropriate print and multimedia
resources DEVELOP critical thinking and other
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Every elementary teacher deals with students who struggle as
readers on a daily basis. Each struggling child is complex and each
has a unique history as a learner. In "One Child at a Time,"
experienced literacy specialist and consultant Pat Johnson provides
a framework she has used in numerous K-6 classrooms to help
teachers understand and assist individual children. The four-step
process outlined in the book enables teachers to focus carefully on
specific strategies and behaviors; analyze them with theoretical
and practical lenses; design targeted instruction in keeping with
current research on reading process; and then assess and refine the
teaching in conferences with the child. The framework is by no
means an easy answer to a difficult problem, but through its use
teachers learn how the reading process works for proficient readers
and how to support struggling readers as they construct their own
reading process.
The text is packed with examples of actual conferences with
students, detailing how and when Pat and her colleagues intervene
to instruct and assess. The examples of follow-up assessment and
analysis of struggling readers over days and weeks provide an
indispensable model for teachers.
Pat shows how to use this framework successfully with a range of
learners, including young children, English language learners, and
students in the upper elementary grades who are stalled in their
literacy progress. She builds upon her decades of work as a
classroom teacher, literacy specialist, and consultant in schools
with high poverty and diversity, to demonstrate how this framework
can be useful in any setting.
Reading is all about understanding. Many English language learners
simply do not understand what they are reading, whether it's a
picture book, a literature selection, or a science textbook. Juli
Kendall and Outey Khuon believe that small group comprehension
lessons have a key role to play in advancing students'
understanding of texts."Making Sense" provides answers to many
common questions asked by teachers of English language learners:
How do we organize small-group comprehension instruction? How do we
select books to teach strategies? How do we know our kids are
getting it--and what do we do when they don't get it? It is an
easy-to-use, practical resource for ELD, ESL, and ESOL pull-out
teachers, and for push-in teachers working "in-class" to support
English language learners.The book's five main sections are geared
to the stages of language proficiency, and lessons are divided into
'younger' and 'older' students, spanning kindergarten through grade
8. The authors outline fifty-two lessons that teach students how to
make connections, ask questions, visualize (make mental images),
infer, determine importance, and synthesize. Each lesson follows a
four-part teaching framework: Start Up/Connection--helping students
build background and use prior knowledge to connect to the
lesson;Give Information--explicitly telling students what they are
going to learn and why they are learning it, and then teaching
them;Active Involvement--often occurs during the teaching as
students practice what they are learning while the teacher checks
for understanding and monitors and adjusts instruction;Off-You-Go
--opportunities for students to practice what they learned with
peers or independently."Making Sense" also explores the stages of
language proficiency through descriptions of ten English language
learners of different ages. A chart of student characteristics for
each stage shows how students demonstrate understanding and
outlines the implications for planning instruction. This book will
appeal to experienced teachers seeking to expand their repertoire
of lessons, as well as new teachers just beginning the adventure of
teaching comprehension to English language learners.
Maya Angelou says, "Words mean more than what is set down on
paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of
deeper meaning." "On the Same Page" celebrates the use of our
voices in shared reading with students to help them gain deeper
understanding of the texts we read. If you have enjoyed the
increased engagement and motivation that accompany reading with
your students and wondered how to extend those benefits throughout
the day, this book offers support for using this approach as a
foundation for learning across content areas.
"On the Same Page" explores the use of shared reading as an
instructional approach for readers and writers at all levels of
language proficiency. Janet Allen provides research, resources,
practical ideas, and strategies for building from shared reading to
increase students' literate experiences in a variety of curricular
and instructional areas:
- strategic reading and comprehension;
- building background knowledge for content literacy;
- personal, academic, and public writing;
- transitions to independent reading;
- community knowledge and literature circles;
- increased vocabulary;
- modeled fluency.
"On the Same Page" is enriched with a wide range of student work
as well as extensive appendices of additional resources, graphic
organizers, suggested reading lists, and teaching guides for
implementation of shared reading in your classroom.
Do you spend your days working with students who struggle to
comprehend reading in literacy and content classes? Are you looking
for a way to establish comprehensive literacy instruction in your
school or classroom so all students receive support in becoming
competent and confident readers?
In "Yellow Brick Roads, " Janet Allen offers research-based
methods for helping teachers move toward these goals. This book
provides research, practical methods, detailed strategies, and
resources for read-aloud, shared, guided, and independent reading.
In addition, Janet outlines solutions for many of the literacy
dilemmas that teachers face every day:
- understanding what gets in the way of reading;
- rethinking and reorganizing time and resources;
- providing support for content literacy;
- developing assessment practices that inform instruction;
- supporting reading as a path to writing instruction;
- establishing professional communities to support individual and
school-wide needs-based research.
The appendixes include graphic organizers to support strategy
lessons, suggestions of titles for building classroom libraries, as
well as web sites and professional resources that support the
teaching of reading.
"Yellow Brick Roads"will give you rich ideas, detailed
strategies, and literature support for implementing those
strategies. At a time when many are looking for that elusive wizard
to solve students' reading problems, this book helps you create
your own paths to effective literacy environments.
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