Focus on Text: Tackling the Common Core Reading Standards, Grades 4-8 Contributor(s): Benjamin, Amy (Author) |
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ISBN: 041573343X ISBN-13: 9780415733434 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $31.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Education | Secondary - Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - Arts & Humanities - Education | Language Experience Approach |
Dewey: 372.604 |
LCCN: 2013050052 |
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6.9" W x 9.8" (0.83 lbs) 144 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: As schools shift to the Common Core, many English language arts teachers are left with questions about how their classrooms should look. Is fiction out? Can I still do strategy instruction? Does close reading mean deliberating on each word? Finally, there's a resource with all of these answers and more. In Focus on Text, bestselling author Amy Benjamin provides practical guidance on how to realistically implement the Common Core reading standards. Part I of the book examines misconceptions about the standards and what's really required. It also takes you inside classrooms to see how teachers are modifying their instruction. Part II tackles each reading standard for grades 4-8. You'll learn how to teach the standards with literary and informational texts and how to use them as a springboard for instruction in writing, language, speaking, and listening. Topics include... Throughout the book, you'll find teaching tips and practical resources to use with students, such as question starters and sentence stems. You'll also get a wide variety of classroom examples at different grade levels and with different texts. Whether you're experienced with the Common Core or just getting started, this book will give you exciting new ideas for making them work in your own classroom so your students grow as readers |