Featuring descriptions and activities for fifty exceptional titles, Mary Jo Fresch and Peggy Harkins offer a wealth of ideas for harnessing the power of picture books to improve reading and writing in the content areas.
Power of Picture Books, The: Using Content Area Literature in Middle School
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Reading for Learning: Using Discipline-Based Texts to Build Content Knowledge
5 - 10
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Heather Lattimer provides practical, classroom-tested approaches to helping students access and critically respond to content-based texts.
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Violent Red, Ogre Green, and Delicious White: Expanding Meaning Potential through Media
K - 8
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This article reports on the meaning potential of daily access to drawing/writing media for widening and deepening meaning construction.
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Readers Theatre
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1 - 5
Strategy Guide
Readers Theatre integrates oral reading, literature, and the performing arts. This strategy can entice the most reluctant and disinterested reader to become engaged in reading.
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Write Alouds
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K - 12
Strategy Guide
This strategy guide explains how to use write-aloud (also known as modeled writing) to teach effective writing strategies and improve students' independent writing ability.
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Shared Writing
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K - 12
Strategy Guide
This strategy guide explains how to use shared writing to teach students effective strategies that will improve their own independent writing ability.
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Guided Writing
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K - 3
Strategy Guide
This strategy guide explains how to use small-group, guided writing instruction to teach students effective strategies and improve their ability to produce text independently.
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Using the RAFT Writing Strategy
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5 - 12
Strategy Guide
This strategy guide introduces the RAFT technique and offers practical ideas for using this technique to teach students to experiment with various perspectives in their writing.
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Supporting Student Comprehension in Content Area Reading
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6 - 12
Strategy Guide
In this strategy guide, you'll learn a few simple, yet powerful, techniques to encourage students to use peer talk and writing to enhance their understanding of content area texts.
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Preparing Students for Success with Reading in the Content Areas
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6 - 12
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In this strategy guide, you'll learn how to determine the level and type of support you need to provide students based on careful preparation as a content area expert.
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Zora Neale Hurston in the Classroom: "With a Harp and a Sword in My Hands"
8 - 12
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The book offers a practical approach to Hurston using a range of student-centered activities for teaching Hurston's nonfiction, short stories, and the print and film versions of Their Eyes Were Watching God.
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Langston Hughes in the Classroom: "Do Nothin' till You Hear from Me"
8 - 12
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Carmaletta M. Williams provides high school teachers with background on Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance as well as help in teaching Hughes's poetry, short stories, novels, and autobiography.
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Using Word Walls to Develop and Maintain Academic Vocabulary
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K - 12
Strategy Guide
In this guide, you will learn how to use Word Walls to support vocabulary development and retention.
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Using Generative Sentences to Apply Academic Vocabulary
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4 - 12
Strategy Guide
In this guide, you will learn how to use generative sentences to give students opportunities to apply their knowledge of new words in writing.
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Teaching with Zooming Slideshows through Prezi
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6 - 12
Strategy Guide
Through Prezi, a web application, students create "zooming" presentations for various purposes, such as presenting research, defending an opinion, or sharing a digital story.
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Great Films and How to Teach Them
9 - 12
Professional Library
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Costanzo offers high school and college teachers an updated, expanded edition that contains 80% new material on teaching film, including study guides of 14 new film with relevant ways to engage their students through a medium that students know and love.