Literacy Strategies for Teacher Candidates is packed with a variety of concepts, strategies, and application ideas teacher candidates can use to gain a better understanding of teaching and learning, and ultimately improve the effectiveness of their teaching. The topics covered include the most common content taught in literacy education methods courses. This book serves as a handy supplement that teacher candidates can use to more fully understand the practical applications of the concepts and methods presented and then take the book into their own classrooms as a hands-on guide for implementing the ideas with their own students.

Literacy Strategies for Teacher Candidates

Education & Teaching

Elish-Piper, Laurie

L'Allier, Susan K.

Schools & Teaching

Pearson

Declare Your Readers’ Rights! Often school literacy programs fall short of properly supporting preadolescents' and adolescents' literacy development. In A Declaration of Readers' Rights, this dynamic author team presents a research-based "rights" framework that addresses ten key rights for improving literacy development among adolescents. Reviewers Can’t Put This Book Down! “I think this text is one that should be in the library of every reading specialist.” —Heidi Davey, Hoffman Estates High School, IL “I think the topics in this book are timely and provide a wake up call for all reading teachers. We must remember that not all students arrive in school ready to pick up and run with the reading instruction we provide. Good reading instruction coupled with quality reading experiences must be seen as a right and not just a privilege.” —Molly Williams, Still Middle School, IL Why This Book Will Change the Way You Teach Reading! <ul>
<li>Discusses the ten readers' rights that all children and adolescents have the right to in the classroom. </li>
<li>Challenges teachers to strive to reprioritize their teaching to focus on the students. </li>
<li>Provides guidance for how to develop a successful student-teacher relationship to promote a positive classroom environment and student engagement, learning, and achievement in literacy education. </li>
<li>Outlines very specific recommendations and implementation strategies for middle and secondary teachers that go far beyond where other books stop. </li>
<li>Walks teachers through identifying problems, makes suggestions for preventing reading difficulties, and offers advice for helping students get back on track. </li>
<li>Presents voices of students in grades 5-12, as well as the stories, experiences, and challenges of their teachers and parents throughout the book. </li>
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A Declaration of Readers' Rights: Renewing Our Commitment to Students

Matthews, Mona W.

Risko, Victoria J.

Bass, Jo Ann F.

Dasinger, Sheryl

Higher & Continuing Education

Allyn&Bacon

This book provides essential coaching tools to support teachers in planning and implementing instruction aligned with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). The authors explain the key instructional shifts brought about by the CCSS in K-5 English language arts classrooms. Eighteen specific strategies for coaching large groups, small groups, and individual teachers are presented, including clear-cut procedures, vivid illustrative examples, and 28 reproducible forms. Grounded in research on adult learning, the book addresses common coaching challenges and how to overcome them. The large-size format facilitates photocopying; purchasers also get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials.

The Common Core Coaching Book: Strategies to Help Teachers Address the K-5 ELA Standards (Teaching Practices That Work)

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

The Guilford Press

Today's standards challenge middle and high school teachers to teach their content deeply and meaningfully. This book provides an innovative coaching model for helping science, social studies, and English language arts teachers promote the reading, writing, listening, speaking, and thinking skills needed for high-level work in each discipline. Seventeen specific strategies are presented for large-group, small-group, and individual coaching, including step-by-step instructions and implementation tips. Profiles of highly effective disciplinary literacy coaches illustrate the nuts and bolts of the job and highlight ways to deal with common challenges. In a large-size format for easy photocopying, the book includes 21 reproducible forms. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials.

Collaborative Coaching for Disciplinary Literacy: Strategies to Support Teachers in Grades 6-12

Manderino, Michael

Di Domenico, Paula

Reading Assessment to Promote Equitable Learning: An Empowering Approach for Grades K-5

Many standard reading assessment approaches fail to capture the strengths and needs of students from diverse sociocultural, linguistic, and academic backgrounds. From expert authors, this book guides educators in planning and conducting meaningful, equitable assessments that empower K–5 teachers and students, inform responsive instruction, and help to guard against bias. The book's holistic view of reading encompasses areas from text comprehension and constrained skills to building trusting relationships and promoting students’ agency. Twenty-eight assessment strategies are explained in step-by-step detail, including helpful implementation examples and 32 reproducible forms that teachers can download and print in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size.

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