By observing the deep study of one book, teachers will learn how to explore any text with a greater appreciation for and understanding of author's craft, which they can use to support students' development as writers. Fifteen ready-to-use mini-lessons introduce students to techniques and literary elements they can use to craft their own writing. On an accompanying DVD, the author explains how writers work with both audible and visual craft. The DVD also includes downloadable forms and guidelines teachers can use with their students to explore writer's craft. For use with Grades K–5.

Cracking Open the Author's Craft: Teaching the Art of Writing (Theory and Practice in Action)

Education & Teaching

Laminack, Lester

Schools & Teaching

Scholastic Teaching Resources

With this book and DVD, Laminack invites you to join him in an effort to reclaim the read aloud for students as one of the most potent instructional moments of the school day. To get the most from our read alouds and make every aspect of reading aloud intentional, he believes that we must be as thoughtful in our planning for the read aloud as we are when selecting manipulatives for mathematics. We make the read aloud intentional when we purposely select texts and times with the intent to inspire our students to read and write, invest in our students' language and understandings, and use the read aloud to instruct across the curriculum. For use with Grades KÐ5.

Unwrapping the Read Aloud: Making Every Read Aloud Intentional and Instructional (Theory and Practice in Action)

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Scholastic Teaching Resources: Theory and Practice

Trevor's Wiggly-Wobbly Tooth (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Turtleback

This seminal book is a practical, comprehensive, and illuminating guide for both new and experienced teachers that confronts the challenges of the writing workshop head-on.\nIn The Writing Workshop, Katie Wood Ray offers a practical, comprehensive, and illuminating guide to support both new and experienced teachers. While every aspect of writing workshop is geared to support children learning to write, this kind of teaching is often challenging because what writers really do is engage in a complex, multi-layered, slippery process to produce texts. The book confronts the challenge of this teaching head-on, with chapters on all aspects of the writing workshop, including: day-to-day instruction (e.g., lesson planning, conferring, assessment and evaluation, share time, focus lessons, and independent writing); classroom management (e.g., pacing and scheduling, managing the predictable distractions, and understanding the slightly out-of-hand feeling of the workshop); and intangibles (e.g., the development of writing identities and the tone of workshop teaching). The Writing Workshop is a book about being articulate―being able to think through what we are doing as we are doing it so that we can improve our practice. It's a book to go back to when things are getting hard. A book that helps us think through, "Now why was I doing this?" Woven between the chapters on teaching are the voices of published writers, followed by short commentaries from Lester L. Laminack. These voices remind us how writers do what they do, thus lending authenticity to what Katie Wood Ray shows us in the classroom, and thoughtfully helping us frame our instruction to match the complex process of writing.

The Writing Workshop: Working through the Hard Parts (And They're All Hard Parts)

Ray, Katie Wood

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)

Review\nI so wish I could have read this book years ago when making my first (clumsy) attempts at helping my second and third graders think more critically about the endless stream of texts they consume each and every day. I could have been so much more effective. Katie Kelly, Lester Laminack, and Vivian Vasquez have provided a treasure trove of detailed lessons and resources designed to help justice-minded teachers not only understand the need for literacy learning rooted in efforts to address issues of injustice, but better understand what it might look like in their own classrooms. My hope now is that teachers are brave enough to do the work that needs to be done! -- Chris Hass, Author of Social Justice Talk Published On: 2023-01-12\nCritical Comprehension encourages educators to read critically, to take action, and to be part of a necessary global change. Katie Kelly, Lester Laminack, and Vivian Vasquez relate their personal story, which enhances the call to disrupt what they refer to as "the perpetuation of dominant narratives that privilege some people at the expense of others." They describe opportunities that will allow learners to construct a deeper meaning of texts through a critical literacy lens while moving forward to take social action. This book uses a leading-edge instructional framework to center children of all ages as agents of their own learning. I believe this book will leave you with an overwhelming desire, to work alongside young learners, and will give you the inspiration and knowledge required to "be the change." -- Carolyn Clarke, Assistant Professor, St. Francis Xavier University Published On: 2023-01-12\nWow. Katie Kelly, Lester Laminack, and Vivian Vasquez have created a blueprint for critical comprehension that needs truly to be in the hands of all educators, pre-service and veteran. It′s the book I want to share with my undergraduate students and the book I want my children′s teachers to have. It is rife with concrete examples and beautiful questions to springboard the critical thinkers we all aim to cultivate. -- Nawal Qarooni, Educator, Author, and Literacy Coach Published On: 2023-01-12\nKatie Kelly, Lester Laminack, and Vivian Vasquez wrote the book I wish I had when I was first studying critical literacy in grad school many years ago. Not only does this book define critical comprehension for teachers, but it masterfully supports teachers in putting the work of critical comprehension into practice in the classroom. This book is a great text for both teachers just starting on their journey of including critical comprehension throughout their school day and those who have been doing the work for years. The lessons are practical, meaningful, and highly engaging for students. This is a book I will turn to again and again in my work as a classroom teacher and writer. -- Christina Nosek, Author of Answers to Your Biggest Questions About Teaching Elementary Reading Published On: 2023-01-12\nCritical Comprehension: Lessons for Guiding Students to Deeper Meaning by Katie Kelly, Lester Laminack, and Vivian Vasquez offers teachers a powerful look at ways to support young readers to read with criticality. The book is full of tools, teaching resources, lessons, book lists and questions to help us, as educators, examine our classrooms and practices. The authors help us to understand our own positionality in the classroom and they give us many opportunities to reflect throughout the book. It was helpful for me to get a peek into so many different classrooms to see how some of this work played out with children. 
As an educator I feel fortunate to have this team thinking together and sharing their expertise. The combination of their personal stories and classroom anecdotes makes for very powerful learning as we all work to create inclusive classrooms. -- Franki Sibberson, Author of Beyond Leveled Books Published On: 2023-01-12\nBecause high-level comprehension cannot be divorced from wid

Critical Comprehension [Grades K-6]: Lessons for Guiding Students to Deeper Meaning (Corwin Literacy)

Vasquez, Vivian Maria

Kelly, Katie

Corwin

Meet Your New “Best Friends!” This kit by Lester L. Laminack guides you and your students as you venture deep inside books and engage in the rich discussion and literary analysis of an interactive read-aloud. Each grade-specific collection includes:- 5 “Best Friend Books” selected by Lester L. Laminack (5 copies each).- 5 full-color, multipanel teaching cards, developed with Reba M. Wadsworth, with detailed lesson plans and suggestions for “first visits” and “home visits”―helping students discover the magic of literary language.- An online resource bank that features Lester modeling a read-aloud that highlights exquisite language and intriguing literary elements, and underscores the profound instructional value of literature in the classroom; also included: downloadable graphic organizers and resources for families.- 128-page professional book, The Ultimate Read-Aloud Resource, by Lester L. Laminack.

The Ultimate Read Aloud Resource, Best Friend Fiction Collection, Grade K: Books, Lessons and Professional Learning for Making the Most of Read-Aloud Time

Children's Books

Laminack, Lester L.

Laminack, Laminack Lester L.

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Scholastic Professional

Meet Your New “Best Friends!” This kit by Lester L. Laminack guides you and your students as you venture deep inside books and engage in the rich discussion and literary analysis of an interactive read-aloud. Each grade-specific collection includes:- 5 “Best Friend Books” selected by Lester L. Laminack (6 copies each).- 5 full-color, multipanel teaching cards, developed with Reba M. Wadsworth, with detailed lesson plans and suggestions for “first visits” and “home visits”―helping students discover the magic of literary language.- An online resource bank that features Lester modeling a read-aloud that highlights exquisite language and intriguing literary elements, and underscores the profound instructional value of literature in the classroom; also included: downloadable graphic organizers and resources for families.- 128-page professional book, The Ultimate Read-Aloud Resource, by Lester L. Laminack.

The Ultimate Read Aloud Resource, Best Friend Fiction Collection, Grade 1: Books, Lessons and Professional Learning for Making the Most of Read-Aloud Time

Meet Your New “Best Friends!” This kit by Lester L. Laminack guides you and your students as you venture deep inside books and engage in the rich discussion and literary analysis of an interactive read-aloud. Each grade-specific collection includes: - 5 “Best Friend Books” selected by Lester L. Laminack (6 copies each). - 5 full-color, multipanel teaching cards, developed with Reba M. Wadsworth, with detailed lesson plans and suggestions for “first visits” and “home visits”―helping students discover the magic of literary language. - An online resource bank that features Lester modeling a read-aloud that highlights exquisite language and intriguing literary elements, and underscores the profound instructional value of literature in the classroom; also included: downloadable graphic organizers and resources for families. - 128-page professional book, The Ultimate Read-Aloud Resource, by Lester L. Laminack.

The Ultimate Read-Aloud Resource, Best Friend Fiction Collection, Grade 2: Books, Lessons and Professional Learning for Making the Most of Read-Aloud Time

By observing the deep study of one book, teachers will learn how to explore any text with a greater appreciation for and understanding of author's craft, which they can use to support students' development as writers. Fifteen ready-to-use mini-lessons introduce students to techniques and literary elements they can use to craft their own writing. The companion website features videos of best-selling author, Lester L. Laminack, demonstrating how writers can work with both audible and visual craft. The companion site also includes downloadable forms and guidelines teachers can use with their students to explore writer's craft.

Cracking Open the Author's Craft (Revised): Teaching the Art of Writing (Theory and Practice in Action)

Tres gallinas y un pavo real (ALBUMES ILUSTRADOS) (Spanish Edition)

Editorial Juventud, S.A.

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