Teaching Literacy Effectively in the Modern Classroom for Ages 5–8

Education & Teaching

Dymock, Sue

Nicholson, Tom

Schools & Teaching

Routledge

Two professors share their research-based, field-tested approach for helping students identify and analyze the most common expository text structures in order to better comprehend the nonfiction they read. Students gain valuable experience recognizing descriptive, sequential, problem-solution, and cause-effect patterns in texts. Using graphic organizers helps them visualize and remember key information in the article. Detailed lesson plans with companion reproducible articles and diagrams help teachers confidently put theory into practice. For use with Grades 4–6.

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Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching

Literacy in Early Childhood and Primary Education provides a comprehensive introduction to literacy teaching and learning. The book explores the continuum of literacy learning and children's transitions from early childhood settings to junior primary classrooms, and then to senior primary and beyond. Reader-friendly and accessible, this book equips pre-service teachers with the theoretical underpinnings and practical strategies to teach literacy. It places the 'reading wars' firmly in the past as it examines contemporary research and practices. The book covers important topics such as assessment, multiliteracies, reading difficulties and diverse classrooms. Each chapter includes learning objectives, reflective questions and definitions of key terms to engage and assist readers. Written by an expert author team and featuring real world examples from literacy teachers and learners, the book will help pre-service teachers feel confident teaching literacy to diverse age groups and abilities.

Literacy in Early Childhood and Primary Education: Issues, Challenges, Solutions

McLachlan, Claire

Fielding-Barnsley, Ruth

Mercer, Louise

Ohi, Sarah

Teen & Young Adult

Cambridge University Press

If you had to make a life-and-death decision right here, right now, could you? Surgeons do that every day, relying on a decision-making process steeped in a network of facts, education, experience, intuition, and gut instincts. But how do they know which quality to tap into and when? Turns out that the same principles that surgeons use to diagnose, decide, do, and ultimately discharge can help anyone make important decisions efficiently and productively. In Trust Your Gut: The Surgeon's Guide to Getting It Done, Dr. Tom Nicholson, Chief of General Surgery and a colorectal specialist at a Pennsylvania teaching hospital, prescribes twenty solutions that anyone can use to make good decisions in work and in life.
 Trust Your Gut is a concise motivational business book designed to be read in less than an hour-on the train, waiting for a plane, or anywhere and anytime the reader needs a boost of decision-making confidence. The author, also a business owner, dissects each step of how surgeons make decisions, and translates them for outside the OR, in work and in life.
 About the Authors 
 Tom Nicholson, MD, is Chief of General Surgery at WellSpan Health System in York, Pennsylvania, where he performs colorectal and robotic surgery and lends his expertise in a teaching program for surgical residents. Additionally, he manages a private surgical practice and an accredited surgical center. He is the owner of Triple R Farms, where he manages the production, distribution, and sale of an all-natural beef jerky product called Cowboy Coffee. He has been elected to the board of Dallastown Area School District, which serves 5,400 students. 
Jen Singer is the author of six books (HCI, Sourcebooks) and an accomplished health, lifestyle, and parenting writer. Her work has appeared in numerous publications and online, including GoodHousekeeping.com, Living with Cancer, Natural Health, the New York Times, Parents, PBS Next Avenue, Redbook, the Wall Street Journal, and more.

Trust Your Gut: The Surgeon's Guide To Getting It Done

Self-Help

Dog Ear Publishing, LLC

One in four school students struggle to read. The Phonics Handbook has been written to give assistance to teachers in helping students with reading difficulties. Taking a phonological approach, the book is set out in the form of lesson plans designed to be used instantly, requiring no preparation. 
The book is based on the wisdom gained from working with hundreds of students who have attended the author’s after-school reading clinic. This is reflected in the practical approach to helping students of all ages including those with English as a second language and those with a range of difficulties including, special needs, motivational and attention problems. Phonics Handbook includes lesson plans for every phonics skill from the basic alphabet sounds through to blends, digraphs, syllable breaking and decoding Latin and Greek words. Each lesson is followed by a worksheet for students. Using this format, the book incorporates diagnostic assessment to measure what students need at the outset of teaching, as well as measuring whether the tutoring has been effective. Additional teaching strategies are given to reinforce spelling and assist reading comprehension. Strategies for ‘hard to teach’ students and information on reporting to parents are included, incorporating research on the best tutoring methods.

Phonics Handbook

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

wiley

Teaching Reading Vocabulary

NZCER Press

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