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Writing Every Day

Reading, Writing, and Conferencing Using Student-led Language Experiences

By: Kellie Buis,Kat Mototsune

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Writing Every Day

Reading, Writing, and Conferencing Using Student-led Language Experiences

By: Kellie Buis,Kat Mototsune

Many of today's schools struggle with large class sizes, a continually evolving curriculum, and a wide diversity in the ability and background of their students. How best to build an effective literacy community in this constantly changing environment is an increasingly difficult challenge for teachers, new and experienced alike.InWriting Every DayKellie Buis demonstrates that sharing stories is a fun and engaging way to motivate children and encourage cooperative learning in K 8 classrooms. It proposes students writing letters every day as an efficient, effective, engaging and fun teaching strategy for organizing language instruction. Children s personal stories become the catalyst for language experiences that involve reading, writing, and all forms of communication. Teachers will find novel ways to: bridge the gap between the important principles of sharing stories and practical ideas on how these understandings can be translated into classroom practice; empower students to deepen and enrich their language skills by sharing their ideas, feelings, and experiences; show students how to begin to make sense of themselves, each other, and the world; create a strong partnership between school and home; give children the ability to express themselves and to be heard by others in their community. Student samples throughout the book illustrate the power of using their own life experiences to engage children in authentic reading and writing. Writing daily letters gives children a stronger voice and engenders feelings of self-worth, self-respect, and competence. This strategy reaps benefits beyond the language arts curriculum and helps students make connections and recognize patterns in everything that they read, write, and learn.

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1551381699

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Smart Tests

Teacher-made Tests that Help Students Learn

By: Catherine M. Walker,Edgar Schmidt,Kat Mototsune

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Teacher-made Tests that Help Students Learn

By: Catherine M. Walker,Edgar Schmidt,Kat Mototsune

High-stakes accountability and the growing move towards standardized testing are placing teacher knowledge and assessment skills under ever-increasing scrutiny. Teachers know what is going on in their classrooms and have first-hand reliable evidence of what their students can accomplish. They can be the major factor in student assessment and help their students better demonstrate what they have learned. Smart Tests shows educators how to create well-structured evaluation tools that match assessment tasks to the purpose and content of instruction. Teachers learn how to relate testing directly to classroom goals and activities and make assessment an integral part of learning and teaching, not just the end result. They will find the information they need to build assessment tasks that give students in grades K-8 the opportunity to succeed. These tasks encourage students to apply new knowledge, reflect and defend their thoughts and opinions, and connect what they learn the world beyond the classroom.

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Deal with it from the Inside Out

By: Kat Mototsune

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Deal with it from the Inside Out

By: Kat Mototsune

What are you looking at, punk? Or are you a jock, a goth, or an indie rock guy? The image we project sends signals to others about who we are. But image can also be a prison and the source of many conflicts. This latest volume in the Deal With It series looks at the costs of conforming to social images and the very real dangers of judging a book by its cover.

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1550289942

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Cliques

Deal with it using what you have inside

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Deal with it using what you have inside

By: Kat Mototsune

As long as there have been girls in schools, there have been cliques -- a particularly malicious and subtle form of bullying that isn't always recognized for what it is. And with the growing role of social media, their mean-spirited goals have only become easier to achieve. Cliques: Deal with it using what you have inside, the latest book in the Deal With It series, offers young readers up-to-date discussions about: distinguishing groups from cliques, inclusion/exclusion, gossip, cyber-bullying, self esteem, and peer pressure. The book directly addresses the problem of cliques, and provides many practical tips on how to identify, confront, and overcome it -- with style. The text is written to be comfortable for every reader, whether on the inside making trouble for someone else, on the outside, or a bystander wondering what to do. Quizzes, comics, and graphic novel-style illustration help make this book a fun and accessible way to approach an often difficult-to-address problem.

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Writing Every Day

Reading, Writing, and Conferencing Using Student-led Language Experiences

By: Kellie Buis,Kat Mototsune

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Reading, Writing, and Conferencing Using Student-led Language Experiences

By: Kellie Buis,Kat Mototsune

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Smart Tests

Teacher-made Tests that Help Students Learn

By: Catherine M. Walker,Edgar Schmidt,Kat Mototsune

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Teacher-made Tests that Help Students Learn

By: Catherine M. Walker,Edgar Schmidt,Kat Mototsune

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