The Reading/writing Connection in Grades K-6: A Cognitive Strategies Approach to Scaffolding Language Arts Instruction

Olson, Carol Booth

Allyn&Bacon

“I haven’t seen any books that come close to what Carol Olson has developed.” —Harry Noden, Kent State University “The illustrations and scanned-in documents make Booth-Olson’s book readable, interesting, relevant, and real-life. These visuals from actual students help transform her ideas from theory into practice.” —Kathy Bussert-Webb, The University of Texas at Brownsville Now in its second edition, The Reading/Writing Connection features an array of individual reading and writing strategies, activities, and mini-lessons that teachers can implement in their classrooms. Well-respected author Carol Booth Olson extends far beyond most books intended for teachers of language arts by integrating reading and writing in creative, theory-based ways. Lauded by students and professors as a clear and straightforward book, this revised and updated edition includes plenty of material about teaching the writing process and responding to literature, and provides examples of lessons that help readers learn specific strategies. Unique in its field, The Reading/Writing Connection provides student models at middle and high school levels in almost every chapter, illustrating actual student responses to reading and writing activities. The book is also rich with literary selections, giving teachers easy access to the literature featured in the activities and demonstration lessons. 
 Features New to the Second Edition <ul>
<li>Extensive coverage of differentiated instruction for English Language Learners</li> <li>A new chapter entitled “Introducing Students to the Cognitive Strategies in Their Mental Tool Kits” that summarizes and clarifies students’ use of cognitive strategies in their thinking</li> <li>An extensive and revised companion website that features reading and writing rubrics, student models, blackline masters of graphic organizers, and much more, available at www.ablongman.com/olson2e. </li>
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The Reading/Writing Connection: Strategies for Teaching and Learning in the Secondary Classroom, 2nd Edition

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

This book features an array of individual reading/writing strategies, activities and mini-lessons, and it scaffolds these strategies in extended demonstration lessons that teachers can easily implement in their classrooms. Readers will receive helpful information about teaching the writing process and responding to literature. The author provides valuable examples of lessons that help students learn task-specific strategies, and integrates the reading and writing process in creative, theoretically sound ways. Practical demonstration lessons throughout the text model how to scaffold guided practice activities into coherent lesson sequences, paving the way for teachers to implement theoretically sound, teacher-tested lessons in the classroom. This book has an extensive Companion Website featuring reading and writing rubrics, student models, blackline masters of graphic organizers, and much more. The author provides student models at both the middle and high school levels in almost every chapter illustrating actual student responses to reading and writing activities. The "Learning Log Reflections" section at the end of each chapter invites readers to take a step back and ponder what has been learned, thus providing teachers the opportunities to engage in the same cognitive strategies that readers and writers use when they compose. Helpful literary selections in almost every chapter gives teachers easy access to the literature featured in the activities and demonstration lessons. Middle and Secondary school instructors and administrators of Reading and Writing programs.

The Reading/Writing Connection: Strategies for Teaching and Learning in the Secondary Classroom

Literature Grade 7

Children's Books

Tomlinson, Carol Ann

Applebee, Arthur N.

Carnine, Douglas

McCloskey, Mary Lou

Allen, Janet

Burke, Jim

Marzano, Robert J.

Langer, Judith A.

STACK, Lydia

Jackson, Yvette

Jimenez, Robert T.

Ogle, Donna M.

Education & Reference

Mcdougal-Littell/Houghton-Mifflin

Book by Purves, Alan C., Olson, Carol Booth, Cortes, Carlos E.

Literature and Integrated Studies: American Literature

Cortes, Carlos E.

Purves, Alan C.

Teen & Young Adult

Scott, Foresman Co.

Purves, Alan C., Olson, Carol Booth, Cortes, Carlos E., Brough, Judith Allen, Brazee, Edward N.

Literature and Integrated Studies: Grade Eight

Brough, Judith Allen

Brazee, Edward N.

Practical Ideas For Teaching Writing as a Process at the High School and College Levels

Practical Ideas For Teaching Writing at the High School and College Levels

California Department of Education

Using a rich array of research-based practices, this book will help secondary teachers improve the academic writing of English learners. It provides specific teaching strategies, activities, and extended lessons to develop EL students’ narrative, informational, and argumentative writing emphasized in the Common Core State Standards. It also explores the challenges each of these genres poses for ELs and suggests ways to scaffold instruction to help students become confident and competent academic writers. Showcasing the work of exemplary school teachers who have devoted time and expertise to create rich learning environments for the secondary classroom, Helping English Learners to Write includes artifacts and written work produced by students with varying levels of language proficiency as models of what students can accomplish. Each chapter begins with a brief overview and ends with a short summary of the key points. Readers can use this book to: <ul>
<li> Help ELs meet the writing demands of the Common Core State Standards.</li> <li> Plan and set goals for instruction.</li> <li> Supplement existing English language arts or English language development curricula with teacher-tested strategies, activities, and lessons.</li> <li> Develop a community of learners.</li> <li> Create safe classroom spaces in which students are encouraged to participate, even those with less-than-perfect English.</li> <li> Design and implement culturally responsive instruction, building on students’ strengths.</li>
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Helping English Learners to Write―Meeting Common Core Standards, Grades 6-12 (Common Core State Standards in Literacy Series)

Scarcella, Robin C.

Matuchniak, Tina

English as a Second Language

Teachers' College Press

In her new book, bestselling author and professional developer Carol Booth Olson and colleagues show teachers how to help young readers and writers construct meaning from and with texts. This practical resource offers a rich array of research-based teaching strategies, activities, and extended lessons focused on the “thinking tools” employed by experienced readers and writers. It shows teachers how to draw on the natural connections between reading and writing, and how cognitive strategies can be embedded into the teaching of narrative, informational, and argumentative texts. Including artifacts and written work produced by students across the grade levels, the authors connect the cognitive and affective domains for full student engagement. Readers can use this book to:
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<li>Help students develop critical thinking skills to meet the CCSS and other state standards.</li>
<li>Plan and set goals for literacy instruction.</li>
<li>Supplement existing English language arts curricula with teacher-tested strategies, activities, and lessons.</li>
<li>Design and implement engaging instruction.</li>
<li>Develop a community of learners by creating safe classroom spaces in which all students are encouraged to “think big.”</li>
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Book Features:
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<li>Web links throughout the text connect readers to student samples, color versions of resources, anchor charts, videos, extended lesson plans, and more!</li>
<li>Lessons and activities for embedding cognitive strategy instruction seamlessly into the classroom.</li>
<li>A detailed look at the genres of narrative, information, and argument, including how to teach them from both a reading and writing perspective.</li>
<li>Classroom vignettes with National Writing Project teachers who are conversant with the current research literature.</li>
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Thinking Tools for Young Readers and Writers: Strategies to Promote Higher Literacy in Grades 2–8

Education & Teaching

Balius, Angie

McCourtney, Emily

Widtmann, Mary

Schools & Teaching

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