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Guiding Readers Through Non-Fiction

Effective Strategies for Small-Group Instruction

By: Tom Rossi,Dave Leochko

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Guiding Readers Through Non-Fiction

Effective Strategies for Small-Group Instruction

By: Tom Rossi,Dave Leochko

Written for grades 4–7 teachers and students, Guiding Readers Through Non-Fiction is an easy-to-use resource. It provides essential background information on the nature of nonfiction and how to use nonfiction in small guided-reading groups. The book is filled with many ready-to-use student handouts, graphic organizers, rubrics, assessment checklists, and planning guidelines. In this resource, you will find: teaching suggestions and strategies to help students engage with various forms of nonfiction necessary information for implementing guided-reading practices in the classroom effective strategies to incorporate successful small-group instruction in the classroom plans and suggestions for structuring the guided-reading lesson

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183

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Portage & Main Press

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ISBN 10

1553792386

ISBN 13

9781553792383

Literature Circles

Tools and Techniques to Inspire Reading Groups

By: Warren Rogers,Dave Leochko

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Literature Circles

Tools and Techniques to Inspire Reading Groups

By: Warren Rogers,Dave Leochko

Encourage critical thinking, inspire rich discussion-based activities, and promote effective communication through Literature Circles.This book provides everything you need to set up Literature Circles in your classroom, including:six original, reproducible short stories theory and practice of Literature Circles easy-to-use handouts for role definitions mini-lessons to teach communication skills mini-lessons to help groups work effectively and much more!

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148

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Portage & Main Press

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ISBN 10

1895411939

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9781895411935

25 Quick Mini-Lessons to Teach Narrative Writing

By: Dave Leochko

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25 Quick Mini-Lessons to Teach Narrative Writing

By: Dave Leochko

In this collection of engaging mini-lessons and companion reproducible pages, teacher Dave Leochko shares his favorite writing lessons--ones that have really helped his students become better writers. The classroom-tested lessons in this book take young writers through all the steps of the writing process, including getting an idea, revising a story, and conferencing with other writers, while also targeting specific skills, such as using punctuation correctly, varying sentence structure, making characters believable, and developing a plot. The reproducible pages feature activities that let students apply new skills, as well as writing tips and strategies they can collect and use a reference. For use with Grades 4-8.

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