books about: mini-lessons     books:     Mini-lessons      Teaching Comprehension Strategies All Readers Need: Mini-Lessons That Introduce, Extend, and Deepen Reading ... Nicole Outsen, Yulga Stephanie Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching, 2002 Great help for teachers needing comprehension strategy lessons! This book helps teachers find lessons already laid out for instruction to focus on specific comprehension strategies their students may need. Good examples and additional resources are included.             Comprehension Mini-lessons: Inference & Cause and Effect Leann Nickelsen, Sarah Glasscock Scholastic Teaching Resources, 2004 Comprehension Mini-Lessons I love this book! I just started using it this week with my study skills class and it is wonderful! My junior high students did not have a clue about inferences and this book has easy to follow mini-lessons that are truly planned out for you. There is little ...             Trait-Based Mini-Lessons for Teaching Writing in Grades 2-4 Megan S. Sloan Teaching Resources, 2005 Best writing book I've ever used! I am a third grade teacher of mostly at-risk students (English Lang. Learners and low socio-economic students). I was frustrated with the format of most writing instruction books. They were boring or hard to follow. I also wanted to incorporate the 6 traits of ...             Reading Reasons: Motivational Mini-Lessons for Middle and High School Kelly Gallagher Stenhouse Publishers, 2003 Great book for motivation for reading! The lessons in this book are wonderful. It gives students a practical reason for reading. It is the kind of book you can read and immediately put it into practice. You don't have to sit back for weeks and figure out how to incorporate it. It's all there right in ...             25 Mini-Lessons for Teaching Writing (Grades 3-6) Adele Fiderer Teaching Strategies, 1999 This book solved our problem! This book is fantastic! Our son (age 9) is extremely bright and a good reader and has always been an excellent student. Now in 3rd grade, there is an emphasis on writing in his classroom and for some reason he developed what the teacher described as a "mental block" ...             Revisiting The Reading Workshop: Management, Mini-Lessons, & Strategies Barbara Orehovec, Marybeth Alley Scholastic, Inc., 2003 Quick, user-friendly, and thorough One of THE most helpful books I've ever read regarding reader's workshop. I have used (and shared) this techniques over and over with my students & colleagues. I can't imagine my reader's workshop without this resource! You shouldn't either. It's worth the $15 and ...             Writing Whizardry: 60 Mini-Lessons to Teach Elaboration and Writer's Craft Maity Schrecengost Maupin House Publishing, 2001 An ideal classroom curriculum supplement In Writing Whizardry: 60 Mini-Lessons To Teach Elaboration & Writer's Craft, Maity Schrecengost provides classroom teachers with sixty self-contained "mini-lessons" targeting a specific writer's techniques or elaboration skills, as well as teaching the tips, tricks and ...             Mini-Lessons for Literature Circles Harvey Daniels, Nancy Steineke Heinemann, 2004 Exactly what I was looking for to implement literature circles in my classroom! This book is a useful tool if you plan to introduce literature circles into your classroom. It is an easy read, something that one can use as a reference as well as a lesson-planning tool. The way the book is written and organized allows me to use the individual lesson ...             Growing Up Writing: Mini-Lessons for Emergent and Beginning Writers Connie Campbell Dierking, Sherra Ann Jones Maupin House Publishing, 2003 Educators Recommend The research is clear concerning writing workshops: They are the most effective way to teach the craft and process of writing. This being the case, they should not, contend the authors, be reserved for the upper grades. Rather, all writers-including kindergartners and ...             Revisiting the Writing Workshop: Management, Assessment, and Mini-Lessons Marybeth Alley, Barbara Orehovec Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching, 2007 Fantastic resource; revisit writer's workshop! I have found this resource book to be very helpful as I try to find a better approach about the constant struggle of managing writer's workshop. I am hoping to implement many of the great ideas into my classroom after the holiday rush!             Literature-Based Mini-Lessons To Teach Writing (Grades 1-3) Susan Lunsford Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching, 1999 A Teacher's Best Friend As an educator of second grade children, I found this book extremely helpful and very practical in the teaching of young writers. The conversation style of the book helps the teacher in lesson planning as well as gives the teacher a clear picture of student ...             Strategy-Building Bookmarks to Use With Any Text: 15 Bookmarks With Companion Mini-Lessons to Help Students ... Bernadette Lambert Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching, 2007 A great tool to get students thinking about their reading! Excellent product that really has students focus on one skill or strategy at a time for five staight days. I find that following the mini lessons as recommended with a read-a-loud usually takes more than the 10-15 minutes indicated. But it is worth doing the ...             Writing Mini-Lessons for First Grade: The Four-Blocks Model (Four-Blocks Literacy Model) Dorothy P. Hall, Patricia M. Cunningham, ... Carson-Dellosa Publishing Company, 2005             Trait-Based Writing Graphic Organizers & Mini-Lessons: 20 Graphic Organizers With Mini-Lessons to Help ... Jennifer Jacobson Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching, 2008 Guide students through the writing process with 20 engaging graphic organizers geared toward the traits! They'll generate ideas, select just-right words, develop voice, and more. Interactive mini-lessons introduce each organizer; then photocopy for flexible use such as homework, class work, group work, and assessment. A great way to make learning ...             Writing Mini-Lessons for Kindergarten: The Building-Blocks Model Dorothy P. Hall, Elaine Williams Carson Dellosa Pub Co Inc, 2005 Writing Mini-Lessons for Kindergarten This book has a lot of good ideas on how to incorporate writing into the daily morning routine or journal entry. I like the way the book divide the stages of learning into Early stage (the beginning of the school year) and Later stages as the child progress in the ...          products you might be interested in search for books building-blocks, comprehension, literature-based, mini-lessons, motivational, strategy-building      geepe.com    web we recommend Exactly what I was looking for to implement literature circles in my classroom! randomly chosen book: The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists