Scholastic teaching strategies

Contains more than seventy-five writing prompts, organized by science, math, and social studies, with guidelines for using them and reproducible versions, designed to help students build content knowledge through writing.

Explains the technique of guided reading, describing the reading strategies used by good readers, discussing the reading stages students pass through, exploring the role of phonics and word study, considering assessment and grouping, and including suggested reading lists.

Presents twenty-two lessons on nonfiction reading for students in grade 4 and up, covering how to read primary sources, biographies, periodicals, science and social studies textbooks, maps, graphs, and other types of texts; and includes fifteen color transparencies.

Contains twenty simple lessons with color transparencies, high-interest passages, and practice pages designed to help students in grades two through four learn how to read nonfiction.

Contains fifty word learning lessons for use with students in kindergarten through second grade, each arranged in a sequence of teaching, practice, follow-up, and application.

Provides teachers of kindergarten, first, and second grades with tips and tools for establishing structure in the classroom that will foster children's learning.

Contains lessons and strategies designed to help kindergarten students develop literacy skills through shared reading, guided reading, interactive writing, and read-alouds.

Presents ideas for teaching children in grades K-3 phonics, spelling, and language conventions through the creation of word walls; suggestions include an ABC wall, chunking wall, words-we-know wall, and help wall.