Argues that a key strategy for improving the effectiveness of schools is to set standards for what students should be able to do based on the skills required for well-paying Jobs.

Linking School and Work: Roles for Standards and Assessment

Education & Teaching

Resnick, Lauren B.

Wirt, John G.

Schools & Teaching

Jossey-Bass

Students in the upper elementary grades are ready for the excitement and rewards of reading and writing with increasing comprehension. But how can you prepare these 9- to 11-year-olds to meet and beat the challenges of increasingly complex texts? What do fourth and fifth graders need in order to grow as thoughtful readers and effective writers?
 Here you'll find:
 Classroom ideas specially targeted for students at this critical stage of literacy development Dozens of examples of student performances Detailed commentaries on student work
 Through this rich portrait of young readers engaged in making meaning, you'll learn how to set expectations for learning and hone your teaching to help students succeed in your classroom and beyond.
The International Reading Association is the world's premier organization of literacy professionals. Our titles promote reading by providing professional development to continuously advance the quality of literacy instruction and research.
 Research-based, classroom-tested, and peer-reviewed, IRA titles are among the highest quality tools that help literacy professionals do their jobs better. 
 Some of the many areas we publish in include: 
 -Comprehension -Response To Intervention/Struggling Readers -Early Literacy -Adolescent Literacy -Assessment -Literacy Coaching -Research And Policy

Reading and Writing With Understanding: Comprehension in Fourth and Fifth Grades

Reference

Hampton, Sally

Words, Language & Grammar

Intl Literacy Assn

'Reading and Writing Grade by Grade' is an indispensable tool for analyzing literacy skills and setting specific targets for learning for your kindergartners through third graders. Here you'll discover what abilities and understandings children at each grade level K-3 can be expected to have about the print-sound code, comprehension, reading and writing habits, written genres, and language use and conventions.
 Along with thoughtful commentary and suggestions for instruction, the book and companion DVD include dozens of examples of children's writing, samples of oral reading, and videos of children discussing books and following written directions. Drawn from real classrooms, these work samples show just what makes for competent performance in kindergarten through third grade. 
Part of the influential New Standards project, 'Reading and Writing Grade by Grade' is informed by the best thinking of a committee of distinguished educators: Marilyn Jager Adams; Rosalinda B. Barrera; Lucy Calkins; Courtney B. Cazden; Phil Daro; Barbara R. Foorman; Mary Ellen Giacobbe; Angela M. Jaggar; P. David Pearson; Charles Perfetti; Gay Su Pinnell; Susan (Fitzgerald) Powell; Dorothy S. Strickland; Elizabeth Sulzby; Sharon Taberski; William Teale; Josefina Tinajero; Maria Utevsky; and Gordon Wells.
The International Reading Association is the world's premier organization of literacy professionals. Our titles promote reading by providing professional development to continuously advance the quality of literacy instruction and research.
 Research-based, classroom-tested, and peer-reviewed, IRA titles are among the highest quality tools that help literacy professionals do their jobs better. 
 Some of the many areas we publish in include: 
 -Comprehension -Response To Intervention/Struggling Readers -Early Literacy -Adolescent Literacy -Assessment -Literacy Coaching -Research And Policy

Reading and Writing Grade by Grade

Explore the knowledge and skills young children should have as they progress along the continuum of oral language growth. This book and accompanying DVD explain and demonstrate what children can be expected to do in the areas of speaking and listening habits, kinds of talk and resulting genres, and language use and conventions. Speaking and Listening for Preschool Through Third Grade will encourage you to make your classroom a noisy place, full of rich conversation about ideas, opinions, stories, school subjects, and language itself a place where spoken words are at the heart of a community of teaching and learning.The International Reading Association is the world's premier organization of literacy professionals. Our titles promote reading by providing professional development to continuously advance the quality of literacy instruction and research. Research-based, classroom-tested, and peer-reviewed, IRA titles are among the highest quality tools that help literacy professi

Speaking and Listening for Preschool Through Third Grade

Snow, Catherine E.

The subject is a phenomenon that seems almost a contradiction in terms: cognition that is not bounded by the individual brain or mind. Papers from the 1989 conference held at the U. of Pittsburgh address the social character of motives and task representations; socially constructed rules of reasoning; linguistic tools and social knowledge; the source of cultural knowledge; collaborating at work; and the individual in sociocognitive context. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Perspectives on Socially Shared Cognition

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Levine, John M.

Psychology & Counseling

Amer Psychological Assn

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