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RDG1. |
The Keeping Quiltby
Patricia Polacco ©
1988 |
The
only tangible remnants of Young Anna's ethnic heritage were her dress and
babushka made from the garments Great-Gramma Anna
had worn when she came to |
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RDG2. |
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridgeby
Mem Fox ©
1984 |
About
a little boy who lives next to a retirement home and his friendship with the
people who live there. We get to see these elderly
people in a little boy’s eyes. It’s a great story to share with children
about memories and Alzheimer’s disease. The world seems a much friendlier
place through a child’s eyes. |
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RDG3. |
Building a Strong
Vocabulary A 12 Week Plan for
Students by Carl B. Smith © 1997 |
Learn twelve powerful strategies to increase your
vocabulary and boost your communication skills! These vocabulary-bulding
tactica will keep working for you over the years. |
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RDG4a.-i. |
Help Your Child Read and
Succeed (11) A Parent’s Guide by Carl B. Smith © 1991 |
This book will give you the confidence and
information you need to play that essential role for your child’s reading and
sccess in school. |
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RDG5 |
Make a Difference Talk
About Books Video and Discussion
Guide by Carl B. Smith © 1996 |
This program helps parents to strengthen their
relationships with their children, promote their children’s intellectual and
emotional growth, and much more. |
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RDG6a.-k. |
101 Ways to Help Your Child Learn to Read & Write (11) by Mary & Richard Behm © 1995 |
These one hundred and one ideas make learning easy
and fun for the whole family. You’ll
find you can encourage natural learning at home, in the car, at the grocery
store-just about everywhere you go. |
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RDG7. |
Reading Engagement Motivating Readers
Through Integrated Instruction © 1997 |
This book provides an interpretation of the
available research on motivation and describes instructional approaches in
classroom contexts. This volume will
help teacher educators, researchers and graduate students understand the
research literature on motivation and use it in their efforts too enhance
children’s literacy development. |
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RDG8. |
When Writers Read
by Jane Hansen © 1987 |
This book brings readein
and writing instruction together. It demonstrates how recent approaches in
the teaching of writing can be used in the teaching of reading. |
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RDG9. |
Standards in Practice Grades
K-12
by © 1996 |
This book presents a number of ways to increase
student ownership of learning. |
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RDG10. |
Teaching Video Set-6 Videos, Viewer’s Guide & Instructor’s Guide #1 Emergent Literacy #2 The Reading/Writing Connection #3 Teaching #4 Teaching Word Identification #5 Literacy in Content Area Instruction #6 Fostering A Literate Culture © 1991 |
Literacy in Content Area Instruction. A six set video series produced by the
Center for the Study of Reading. |
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RDG11. |
The Administration and Supervision of © 1995 |
Part II presents guidelines fr
developing reading programs at the pre-elementary, elementary, middle school,
junior high, and high-school levels. This book will be of invaluable assistance
to preservice and inservice reading specialists, supervisors, and administrators
in identifying the needs and means necessary for the organization and
supervision of pre-K through 12 reading programs. |
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RDG12. |
Guided
A video set from The
Primary Literacy Video Collection By Irene C. Fountas
& Gay Su Pinnell Video 1: Essential Elements Video 2: The Skillful Teacher ©2001 |
You
can see for yourself how to create organize, and manage a classroom
environment that encourages and supports independent literacy learning.
Managing the Day, the first video, demonstrates how one first-grade teacher
has successfully set up her classroom. The second video, Planning for
Effective Teaching, reveals how to organize materials and manage your time.
You'll discover how to set up literacy centers using work-board icons; art,
poetry, listening, writing, and word-study centers. |
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RDG13. |
Guiding Readers and Writers (Grades 3-6) By Irene C. Fountas
& Gay Su Pinnell © 2001 |
Guiding
Readers and Writers (Grades 3-6) contains a wealth of ideas that will inspire
students to become more literate. |
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RDG14. |
Leveled Books for Readers (Grades 3-6) By Gay Su Pinnell &
Irene C. Fountas © |
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RDG15 |
Supporting Struggling Readers and Writers: Strategies for Classroom Intervention By Dorthy S. Strickland
& Kathy Ganske & Joanne K. Monroe © 2002 |
Provides teachers, administrators, and staff
developers with the best research-based practice on the literacy learning and
teaching of low-achieving intermediate students. |
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RDG16 |
Literature Discussion Groups in the Intermediate Grades: Dilemmas and possibilities By Karen S. Evans © 2001 |
In this book Karen S. Evans describes how her
strong belief in the value of literature discussions helped her to deal with
the dilemmas in introducing a new way of “doing Reading” to students in
several different classrooms. |
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RDG17 |
Getting Beyond “I Like the Book”: Creating Space for Critical Literacy in K-6 Classrooms By Vivian Vasquez © 2003 |
Provides classroom strategies and annorared lists of childen’s
literature that can be used t encourage and support childrens
critical conversations. |
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RDG18 |
Comprehension Strategies for Middle Grade Learners: A Handbook for Content Area Teachers By Charlotte Rose Sadler © 2001 |
In this book the author arms teachers in all
curricular areas with practical tools to help students understand their
assigned readings. It offers 56 basic
strategies, each with a description and easy-to-follow procedures content
area examples, and suggestions for assessment. |
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RDG19 |
To Be A Boy, To Be A Reader: Engaging Teen and Preteen Boys in Active Literacy By William G. Brozo © 2002 |
This book addresses the growing concern among
middle school and high school teachers of boys’ lack of literacy growth and
independent reading. |
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RDG20 |
Supporting Struggling Writers in the Elementary
Classroom By Teresa A. Christenson © |
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RDG21 |
Tiger Lilies, Toadstools, and Thunderbolts: Engaging K-8 Students with Poetry By Iris McClellan Tiedt © 2002 |
A comprehensive resource that combines background
information about teaching poetry and a variety of learning activities to
help create a classroom that invites positive experiences with poetry and
encourages students not only to learn more about poetry, but also to
appreciate it. |
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RDG22 |
Guided Comprehension in the Primary Grades By Maureen McLaughlin © 2003 |
A teaching framework that develops reading
comprehension by providing direct and guided strategy instruction; numerous
opportunities for engagement, including comprehension centers and routines; and a variety of
leveled texts and instructional settings. |
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RDG23 |
Teaching With Picture Books in the Middle School By McClellan Tiedt © |
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RDG24 |
Yellow Brick Roads: Shared and Guided Paths to Independent Reading 4-12 By Janet Allen © 2000 |
Offers a research-based methods this book provides
research, practical methods, detaied strategies,
and resources for read-aloud, shared, guided, and independent reading. |
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RDG25 |
Teaching
By Laura Robb © 2003 |
Shows you how to help students read and engage
with textbooks and navigate the special demands of any nonfiction text
structure. This book shares dozens of
strategy lessons to use before, during, and after reading content area
selections. |
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RDG26 |
Improving Comprehension With Think-Aloud Strategies: Modeling What Good Readers Do By Jeffrey D. Wilhelm © 2001 |
"With
this book, Jeff Wilhelm gets to the heart of what it means to be a passionate
teacher and reader, one who not only conveys to his students an enthusiasm
for reading, but also shows them ways that they can comprehend, appreciate,
and converse with texts of all kinds. Jeff's energy for teaching is palpable
and infectious, yet the beauty of this book emanates from Jeff's ability to
reveal the raw mechanics of the reading process both to his students and to
us." |
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RDG27 |
10 Writing Lessons for the Overhead: Transparencies
That Show Models of Strong Writing with Companion Mini-Lessons By Lola M. Schaefer © |
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RDG28 |
50 Reproducible Strategy Sheets That Build
Comprehension During Independent By Anina Robb © |
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RDG29 |
Graphic Organizers and Activities For Differentiated
Instruction in By Nancy L. Witherell
and Mary C. McMackin © |
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RDG30 |
40 Graphic Organizers That Build Comprehension During
Independent By Anina Robb © 2003 |
Full of worksheets to help you incorporate
independent reading in your classroom. |
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RDG31 |
Easy Writing Lessons for
the Overhead By Lisa Blau © 2002 |
Contains a collection of transparencies and
activities. it also includes the
sequencing organizer, semantic analysis chart, self-editing grid, persuasive
writing map and more |
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RDG32 |
Taking Running Records: A Teacher Shares Her Experience On How to Take Running Records and Use What They Tell You to Assess and Improve Every Child’s Reading By Mary Shea © 2000 |
A method of recording and analyzing detailed
information about a child’s reading competence. It reveals skills and strategies a child
uses to decode, comprehend, and interpret different kinds and levels of text. |
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RDG33 |
Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension to Enhance
Understanding By Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis © |
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RDG34 |
Nonfiction Matters: By Stephanie Harvey © 1998 |
Offers teachers the tools to help students explore
nonfiction and dig deep to reach more complete understanding of the real
world and report these insights in a compelling manner. |
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RDG35 |
Literature Circles: Voices and Choice in Book Clubs & Reading Groups By Harvey Daniels © 2002 |
A thoroughly revised and expanded guide to
forming, managing, and assessing these peer-led book discussion groups. |
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RDG36 |
I
Read It, But I Don’t Get It: Comprehension
Strategies for Adolescent Readers By Cris Tovani © 2000 |
Is a practical, engaging account of how teachers
can help adolescents develop new reading comprehension skills. |
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RDG37 |
Apprenticeship in
Literacy: Transitions Across By © 1998 |
This text
will guide K-3 teachers as they develop a reading and writing program for all
their students. Am apprenticeship
approach to literacy emphasizes the role of the teacher in providing
demonstrations, engaging children, monitoring their understanding, providing
timely support and, ultimately, withdrawing that support as the child gains
independence. |
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RDG38 |
Shaping Literate Minds: Developing Self-Regulated Learners By © 2001 |
This is a book about problem solving- an internal
tool that shapes the cognitive development of young readers and writers. It is also a book about the role of eh
teacher and the curriculum in structuring problem solving opportunities. |
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RDG39 |
Scaffolding Young Writers: A Writers’ Workshop Approach By
© 2001 |
The authors of this book present a clear road map
for implementing writers’ workshop in the primary grades. |
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RDG40 |
Revisit, Reflect, Retell: Strategies for Improving
By © 1999 |
This
highly practical collection of more than 130 strategies and 90 reproducible
is the perfect resource for any teacher attempting to evoke high-quality
responses to literature. It provides a detailed look at why to respond
to text, when to respond to text, and how readers might be
invited to respond in authentic ways. All of the strategies are classroom
tested, and the black line masters offer powerful incentives for creative
interactions. |
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RDG41 |
Classroom Strategies That Work: An Elementary Teacher’s Guide to Process Writing By Ruth Nathan, © 1989 |
This
book is based on workshop materials the authors developed for teachers who
were interested in using the writing process approach but who needed detailed
suggestions on getting started. This is a book for teachers new to the
process approach as well as experienced teachers looking for ways to expand
their efforts and to integrate writing within the whole fabric of language
learning. |
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RDG42 |
Mosaic of Thought: Teaching Comprehension in a Reader’s Workshop By Ellin Oliver Keene
and Susan Zimmermann © 1997 |
This book proposes a new instructional paradigm
focused on in-depth instruction in the strategies used by proficient
readers. It is relevant to all
literature-bases classrooms, regardless of level. It offers practical tools for inservice
teachers, as well as essential methods instruction for preservice teachers
are both the undergraduate and graduate level. |
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RDG43 |
How’s It Going? A Practical Guide to Conferring with Student Writers By Carl Anderson © 2000 |
Is
a practical book, written in a conversational style, it’s filled with lots of
useful advice, including an in-depth discussion of the teacher’s role in
conferences, strategies for teaching students to take an active role, ways to
weave in literature, mini-lessons, classroom management strategies, and
responses to the most frequently asked questions about conferring. |
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RDG44 |
Good-Bye Round Robin: 25 Effective Oral reading Strategies By Michael F. Optiz and
Timothy V. Rasinski © 1998 |
Is
the first book of its kind, offering teachers a new alternative to
traditional round robin reading—an outmoded practice that more often
prohibits rather than facilitates the ability to read. The book is completely
research based, demonstrating how to use oral reading to help students
develop comprehension, share information, and discover effective reading
strategies. |
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RDG45 |
Perspectives on Shared By Bobbie Fisher and Emily Fisher Medvic © 2000 |
Will
be lauded for its "best of both worlds" approach—pairing the views
of a seasoned pro and fresh newcomer, melding theory with practice. But what
will stand out most is its reaffirmation of the power of books. |
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RDG46 |
What a Writer Needs
By Ralph Fletcher © 1993 |
Engages in anecdotal prose, it provides a wealth
of specific, practical strategies for challenging and extending student
writing. |
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RDG47 |
In the Middle: New Understandings About Writing,
By Nancie Atwell © 2001 |
A
practical book, providing everything a teacher needs to get the writing
workshop up and running. In clear language, Fletcher and Portalupi explain
the simple principles that underlie the writing workshop and explore the
major components that make it work. The book closes with practical forms in
the appendixes to ensure that the workshop runs smoothly. |
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RDG48 |
Writing Workshop: The Essential Guide By Ralph Fletcher and JoAnn Portalupi © 2001 |
A
practical book, providing everything a teacher needs to get the writing
workshop up and running. It explains the simple principles that underlie the
writing workshop and explore the major components that make it work. |
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RDG49 |
Writing Lessons For the Overhead: Grades 5 and Up By Lola M. Schaefer © 2000 |
This
highly practical book contains the lessons and model you need to help
students identify and use the elements of good writing. You'll
find teaching tips, discussions questions, and classroom-tested writing
samples - already on transparencies. |
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RDG50 |
Building Fluency: Lessons and Strategies for Reading Success By Wiley Blevins © 2001 |
Includes
an easy assessment, many fun activities, oral reading strategies, and word
lists that targets words, syllables, and spelling patterns kids should master
for fluent reading. |
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RDG51 |
Craft Lessons: Teaching Writing K-8
By Ralph Fletcher & JoAnn Portalupi © 1998 |
This is the practical text for
the over-scheduled writing teacher who wants to give students fresh
challenges for their writing but doesn't have time to pore over dozens of
trade books to do so. |
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RDG52 |
Comprehension Cliffhanger
Stories
By Tom Conklin © 2003 |
This book contains 15 stories for building essential
reading skills such as predicting, making inferences, summarizing and more. |
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RDG53 |
Literature Study Circles in a Multicultural Classroom By Katherine Davies Samway and Gail Whang © 1996 |
Appeals to all teachers who want to implement a
literature-based curriculum. As a text for preservice teachers, the book will
be applicable in language arts and reading courses. |
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RDG54 |
Reading & Writing in the
Middle Years
By David Booth © 2001 |
This is a no-nonsense exploration the latest and
most successful approaches to teaching reading and writing to students in
grades |
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RDG55 |
Notification: Craft Lessons
By JoAnn Portalupi and Ralph Fletcher © 2001 |
This book will help students breath voice into lifeless "dump-truck"
writing and improve their nonfiction writing by making it clearer, more
authoritative, and more organized. It gives teachers a wealth of practical strategies to help
students grow into strong writers as they explore and explain the world
around them. |
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RDG56 |
On The Same Page
By Janet Allen © 2002 |
This book explores the use of shared reading as an
instructional approach for readers and writers at all levels of language
proficiency |
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RDG57 |
There’s Room For Me Here: Literacy Workshop in the Middle School By Janet Allen and Kyle Gonzalez © 1998 |
This book includes record-keeping forms, extensive
bibliographies of literature for shared and independent reading, professional
materials and resource information, and examples of strategy lessons all
embedded in this engaging story of a teacher’s first three years building a
literacy workshop in her classroom. |
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RDG58 |
Running Records: A Self-Tutoring Guide Audio Book By Peter H. Johnston © 2000 |
A practical guide for teachers learning how to
take running records of children’s oral reading. |
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RDG59 |
Knowing How: Researching and Writing Nonfiction 3-8 By Mary C. McMackin and Barbara S. Siegel © 2002 |
Offers
tools for teaching students how to write substantive, well-written research
reports. Included are strategies for formulating research questions, collecting
and organizing data, composing a first draft, and revising. Also included are
sample letters to parents, a list of age-appropriate nonfiction picture books
that model each of the strategies introduced, suggestions for using
technology to enhance researching, and sample student reports. |
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RDG60 |
Is That a Fact? Teaching Notification Writing K-3 By Tony Stead © 2002 |
This
book shows you how to open the door to the rich world of nonfiction writing
that goes beyond "what I did" narratives and animal reports. And he
convincingly demonstrates the importance of introducing nonfiction writing in
the primary grades. |
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RDG61 |
Response Journals Revisited: Maximizing learning through reading, writing, viewing, discussing, and thinking By Les Parsons © 2001 |