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Wow! Full-color, ready-to-use art PLUS activities that are based on the latest research on literacy. Just cut out the pieces needed to create great-looking learning centers or fun-filled games. Follow the step-by-step directions, and watch the learning take place! 176 full-color pages. ... Read more

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Using ideas and activities already tried and tested in the classroom, this book shows practitioners how imaginative drama lessons and activities can be used to help encourage and improve children's writing, speaking and listening skills.

Perfect for the person who might not be used to leading drama-based activities, this book takes a step-by step approach that will help even the most daunted teacher tackle drama with confidence. Also included are:

" ideas for suitable writing and drama activities;

" advice on lesson planning;

" list of useful resources;

" examples of children's work and teachers' comments.

Class teachers, teaching assistants, literacy consultants and drama and English co-ordinators looking for practical, fun drama activities to support literacy will find all the help they need in this book. ... Read more

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More than 200 reproducible activities help secondary students become more flexible and discerning readers as they explore ways to read different kinds of text, build vocabulary, use comprehension strategies and basic elements of literary analysis, and more. ... Read more

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Excellent High-School Resource
This is a wonderful resource for introducing or reinforcing basic literary concepts.My freshman English students have responded to the activites very well, and I would think that the material would be easily adaptable to upperclassmen of varying ability levels.Highly recommended!

High-school Level Literary Analysis
If you are required to teach higher-level literary analysis, this will be a help.The book includes excerpts from literary classics with worksheets asking standard literary analysis: inference, characterization, setting, mood, etc.This is NOT a book for the remedial reading class and standard reading skills and activities.I have used some of the activities successfully in 8th grade and 9th grade honors classes, but it is a little too advanced for regular middle school classes. ... Read more

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An interactive program for teaching kids phonics and other key literacy skills, this book provides instructions for constructing hands-on alphabets for literacy lessons and play. Activities include drawing letters in applesauce, sand, nuts, and finger paint; experimenting with vocal sounds and feelings; and creating letter- and sound-themed crafts from inexpensive and easy-to-find materials. Using the ideas and activities from this book, children will be able to immerse themselves in the world of letters using all their senses. ... Read more

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Children love to learn!
I've used this book for several weeks while teaching my daycare children their letters and sounds.The children have caught on very quickly and have fun learning!This is an awesome book to use!EVERY teacher should have this book!

A wonderful tool for teachers and parents alike
I used this book to teach phonics to my 3-year-old, and she loved all the activities and picked up the sounds immediately.She also retained what she learned and is able to apply the sounds to new words.This book has so many fun activities that it is hard to choose which ones to do!All preschool teachers should have a copy of this book!So many educators rely on vague theories, but this book gives concrete, how-to advice.

Primarily designed for traditional classroom instructors
Ready, Set, Read: Building A Love Of Letters And Literacy Through Fun Phonics Activities by educator and experienced classroom teacher Janet Chambers embraces multisensory education, the idea of using phonics and other methods to reinforce reading skills in whole-body ways. Explained techniques include word walls, personal flashcards, drawings, word books, and other parallel extension activities in this superb guide for teaching young ones preschool through third grade to read well and love it. Although primarily designed for traditional classroom instructors, Ready, Set, Read is also very highly recommended (and "user friendly") for homeschooling parents as well. ... Read more

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More than 160 games, projects, and activities help add fun and excitement to any reading program. Organized into 15 sections, the book covers seasonal, incentives, contests, book fairs, bulletin boards, and more. Over 100 reproducible handout masters are included. ... Read more

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Recasting the Text, a companion volume to Learning the Landscape, provides activities that help students explore multiple ways of reading and re-creating a text in various forms. ... Read more

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Helpful Activities to Model, But Also A Useful Theory for Teaching
The main premise of the book is that students can use "seven angles of vision" in responding to a text and thus can "recast" the text, as readers, writers, and partners in a classroom dedicated to literature.The seven angles include "initial responses, story threads, shifting perspectives, connecting with the writer, language and craft, recasting the text," and finally, "You, the Text, the World."Students apply a variety of different techniques, including double-entry logs, creative responses, and collaborative activities in each of these angles.

As a classroom teacher, I found the book very useful.Some of the activities and exercises within can be lifted wholesale as practice tryouts if teachers would like to test the theories in their own classrooms, but also, the book can serve as a model for developing a year-long curriculum that encourages teachers and students to think about texts in innovative and creative ways.While the book's examples include mainly essays, short fiction and poetry, there is also a section on performance, and the examples should be easily adaptable to longer works of fiction or nonfiction.The bulk of the book is made up of examples and activities, not theoretical passages, and can be put into ease pretty readily in any lit teacher's practice. ... Read more

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Success in the information age means that children learn not only to read - but also to interpret a wide range of symbols: letters, musical tones, numbers, computer icons and the like.

This unique sourcebook offers literacy activities and ideas to teach young children more than 72 literacy skills. It covers listening, sound recognition, parts of the book, top to bottom, left to right, letter/sound connections, using picture and context clues, sequencing, measurement, telling time, street addresses, coordinates, money, mouse skills, and keyboarding. Detailed discussions of each include necessary prerequisite skills, the concepts to be mastered, the materials needed, instructional procedures, and extensions to the activities. Here are more than 250 literacy development activities and ideas for use by school librarians, public librarians, daycare providers, head start teachers, classroom teachers, and others concerned with making sure that children are information literate. ... Read more

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250+ Activitiesand Ideas for Developing Literacy Skills
excellent book, recommend for teachers, librains, etc ... Read more

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These easy-to-make mini-books and manipulatives are just right for teaching young children about topics such as community, holidays around the world, famous Americans, and national symbols. Features such as simple text, labels, captions, and supportive illustrations let children explore concepts of print, introduce them to nonfiction, and boost vocabulary. Also includes activities, songs, poems, and literature links to build background knowledge. For use with Grades K-1. ... Read more

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Seasons/Holidays vs. Non-Fiction
The book is great but not really what I was looking for. I wanted something to showcase non-fiction... something that would help build my students' skills in identifying non-fiction text features. These books ARE non-fiction but cover topics such as MLK Jr. Day, Groudhog Day, etc. If you're looking for something along THOSE lines, good book! ... Read more

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Workbook with answers in back of book -- supports the Algebra 2 textbook by Prentice Hall ----- Activities to increase reading and math understanding -- Graphic organizers to connect math concepts -- Comprehension exercises to help students become better problem solvers -- Vocabulary practice ti improve students' usage of mathematical terms and symbols ... Read more

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Embark on a fun, musical literacy adventure with your students! With nomusical background and minimal preparation, you can offer lovelyactivities that incorporate favorite nursery rhymes or traditionalsongs. Children in both preschool and kindergarten will learn specificskills and concepts, such as phonemic awareness, letter and sight-wordrecognition, rhythms, vocal expression, pitch awareness, story elements,and much more. Includes over 75 literacy lessons and CD with 17 recordedtracks.Supports NAEYC/IRA standards as well as MENC standards.

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This is a photocopiable activity book, which is one of a series intended to promote independent work during the literacy hour. The activities help children to achieve the word level learning objectives in the National Literacy Strategy, by developing essential skills in sound-spelling relationships, focusing on phonics, spelling, word recognition and vocabulary. Notes for teachers are included. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Curriculum Review, published by PaperClip Communications on October 1, 2002. The length of the article is 451 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Encourage literacy with a recipe unit. (Grade K).(Ladders to Literacy: A Kindergarten Activity Book)
Publication: Curriculum Review (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 2002
Publisher: PaperClip Communications
Volume: 42Issue: 2Page: 10(2)

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