An Inquiry Chart (I-Chart) is a tool that enables students to generate meaningful questions about a topic and organize their ideas. Students integrate prior knowledge or thoughts about the topic with additional information found in several sources.
Are your Spidey senses tingling? In this case, it’s nothing to fear but rather to cheer! Though Daka Hermon is the author of middle grade horror titles Hide and Seeker and Nightmare King, she’s here with ideas to get kids thinking about all the amazing insect qualities of their favorite superheroes — something that as a writer for Marvel’s Spidey and His Amazing Friends on Disney Junior and the author of National Geographic Readers: Marvel’s Spider-Man Bugs Out!, she knows a lot about.
Every four or eight years, new residents move into the White House in Washington, DC. Why are there elections? What does the President do? Who were some of the young, unusual, or past residents of the presidential mansion? Read about the White House in fact and fiction – and meet a variety of presidents in the pages of these books!
The theme of the 2013 March celebration of Women’s History Month — “Women inspiring innovation through imagination” — refers specifically to women in science, technology, engineering and math. But there are those whose imagination and innovation inspires readers of all ages to enjoy a book! Some here are real, others fictional; all are worth visiting! Discover many more related titles with Book Finder.
Many school districts have adopted instructional coaching as a model for teachers’ professional development. This brief offers guidance on how school leaders can tailor the most promising coaching strategies to the needs of their schools.
Teachers’ grouping practices during reading instruction can serve as a critical component in facilitating effective implementation of reading instruction and inclusion of students with disabilities in general education classes. In this article, we provide an overview of the recent research on grouping practices (whole class, small group, pairs, one-on-one) during reading instruction for students with disabilities.
Whole class? Small group? Or one-on-one instruction? How much time for each component of reading? Get the basics on effective grouping for reading instruction and a flexible example of an ELA block.
Is your school planning to implement student progress monitoring (SPM)? Are you thinking of using it in your classroom? If so, consider a number of factors to make SPM an integral part of classroom activities, rather than a series of isolated assessments unconnected to other parts of the learning experience. This brief offers some suggestions on how to use SPM in an integrated way.
Teachers often find it difficult to integrate writing and mathematics while honoring the integrity of both disciplines. In this article, the authors present two levels of integration that teachers may use as a starting point. The first level, writing without revision, can be worked into mathematics instruction quickly and readily. The second level, writing with revision, may take more time but enables teachers to connect the writing process more fully with mathematics instruction. Six examples are provided, including student work, in which teachers have successfully attended to the goals of both writing and mathematics.
This publication provides research-based guidance that reflects best practices for intensifying instruction in reading and mathematics for students with significant learning difficulties in K-12, including students with disabilities.
