This book build literacy with these easy, inexpensive, and fun ideas for responding to literature. Teacher-tested activities include story belts, shoe stories, triaramas, flap book, story cubes, and much more.'
Model lessons and engaging activities help students apply research-based reading strategies to informational texts so that they can read and comprehend complex texts. Students will learn these key skills: * finding key details * determining main idea * locating text evidence to support an answer * using text features * understanding text structure * summarizing text * asking and answering quest…
In this book, Erik M. Francis explores how one of the most fundamental instructional strategies—questioning—can provide the proper scaffolding to deepen student thinking, understanding, and application of knowledge. You'll Francis offers myriad examples of good questions across content areas and grade levels, as well as structures to help teachers create and use the different kinds of quest…
Depth of knowledge (DOK) has become a priority for many schools. But if your understanding of DOK is a little cloudy, you're not alone. This resource is your one-stop-shop for learning what it is, who it's for, and how to use and sustain it. Ultimately, you will discover how to plan and provide learning experiences that are academically rigorous, socially and emotionally supportive, and student…