Teaching Reading in Small Groups

Meet instructional challenges effectively and efficiently by uncovering hidden time for meeting individual students' needs.

Author: Jennifer Serravallo

Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books

ISBN: 0325026807

Category: Education

Page: 234

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Meet instructional challenges effectively and efficiently by uncovering hidden time for meeting individual students' needs. With small groups, you'll work closely with more children each day with her how-tos on using formative assessment to create groups from common needs; differentiating for individuals, even in a group; and enhancing Tier 1 and Tier 2 instruction.
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30 Big Idea Lessons for Small Groups

30 Big Idea Lessons for Small Groups provides an amazing framework, with a bank of engagement tools, that gets students interacting with texts.

Author: Michael Rafferty

Publisher: Corwin Press

ISBN: 9781506348612

Category: Education

Page: 248

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30 Big Idea Lessons for Small Groups provides an amazing framework, with a bank of engagement tools, that gets students interacting with texts. Follow this unique 4-part process to develop students’ literal, inferential, evaluative, and analytical skills: Engage: Before Reading Students use a tactile tool like a topic card or a pyramid Discuss: During Reading Students read and mark up a short text Deep-See Think: After Reading Students re-read and revise their interpretations together Connect: After Reading Students begin to transfer their understandings to other texts
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The Writing Strategies Book

Provides three hundred strategies for improving the writing skills of students and includes suggestions for stocking a writing center planning units, celebrating writing, and keeping records.

Author: Jennifer Serravallo

Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books

ISBN: 032507822X

Category: Education

Page: 424

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Provides three hundred strategies for improving the writing skills of students and includes suggestions for stocking a writing center planning units, celebrating writing, and keeping records.
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The Reading Strategies Book

The goal is not that they can do the steps of the strategy but that they become more comfortable and competent with a new skill. With The Reading Strategies Book, you'll have ways to help your readers make progress every day.

Author: Jennifer Serravallo

Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books

ISBN: 032507433X

Category: Education

Page: 400

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With hit books that support strategic reading through conferring, small groups, and assessment, Jen Serravallo gets emails almost daily asking, "Isn't there a book of the strategies themselves?" Now there is. "Strategies make the often invisible work of reading actionable and visible," Jen writes. In The Reading Strategies Book, she collects 300 strategies to share with readers in support of thirteen goals-everything from fluency to literary analysis. Each strategy is cross-linked to skills, genres, and Fountas & Pinnell reading levels to give you just-right teaching, just in time. With Jen's help you'll: develop goals for every reader give students step-by-step strategies for skilled reading guide readers with prompts aligned to the strategies adjust instruction to meet individual needs with Jen's Teaching Tips craft demonstrations and explanations with her Lesson Language learn more with Hat Tips to the work of influential teacher-authors. Whether you use readers workshop, Daily 5/CAFE, guided reading, balanced reading, a core reading program, whole-class novels, or any other approach, The Reading Strategies Book will complement and extend your teaching. Rely on it to plan and implement goal-directed, differentiated instruction for individuals, small groups, and whole classes. "We offer strategies to readers to put the work in doable terms for those who are still practicing," writes Jen Serravallo. "The goal is not that they can do the steps of the strategy but that they become more comfortable and competent with a new skill." With The Reading Strategies Book, you'll have ways to help your readers make progress every day. Visit heinemann.com/readingstrategiesbook/ where you'll find blog posts, videos from Jen Serravallo, community features, and more information on The Reading Strategies Book.
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Small Groups in Writing Workshops

Providing personal yet professional guidelines for introducing students to the life of a writer, this book provides a rationale, a set of principles, and some possible methods for using small groups in writing workshops.

Author: Robert Brooke

Publisher: National Council of Teachers

ISBN: UOM:39076001441497

Category: Authorship

Page: 206

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Providing personal yet professional guidelines for introducing students to the life of a writer, this book provides a rationale, a set of principles, and some possible methods for using small groups in writing workshops. The book discusses how small groups can provide growing writers with the four essentials which all writers need: time for writing; ownership over their topics and processes; ongoing responses to their writing; and exposure to the writing of others. Chapters in the book are: (1) "Invitations to a Writer's Life: Guidelines for Designing Small-Group Writing Classes" (Robert Brooke); (2) "Our Students' Experiences with Groups" (Robert Brooke and others); (3) "Teaching from Experience, Claiming Small Groups" (Robert Brooke and others); (4) "Model Groups and Un-Model Writers: Introducing First- and Second-Year College Students to a Writer's Life" (Ruth Mirtz); (5) "Individualization and Group Work: A Small-Group Writing Workshop and Individualized Invitations to a Writer's Life" (Robert Brooke); (6) "Changing the Frame: Writing, Reading, and Learning about Writing in Small Groups" (Rick Evans); (7) "A Conversation about Small Groups" (Ruth Mirtz); and (8) "Exhortation: Beyond the Small Group--Personal, Pedagogical, and Professional Lives" (Robert Brooke and others). An annotated list of 11 recommended readings is attached. (RS)
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Writing for Life

Small Group Activity This aspect of the language session is both useful and
necessary at times . It is necessary as a type of monitoring device which allows
the teacher to tap briefly into what each child is doing and how he / she is doing it
( e.g. ...

Author: Primary English Teaching Association (Australia)

Publisher: Heinemann

ISBN: STANFORD:36105030880335

Category: Education

Page: 120

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In recent years thee has been renewed interest in writing in the primary schools and the process approach has made a big impact on children and their teachers. Yet are we making the most of this approach? Is there not a risk that process writing will just be indentified with story writing and forfeit its potential for writing in all areas of the curriculum? Are our children learning to use the different kinds of writing that they will need in the course of their education and their lives? The contributors to this book, who include several practising teachers, argue that children should be taught how to write in the various genres or kinds of writing that are needed. Drawing on their own experiences, they show how teachers can develop their teaching of writing to realise the full potential of the process approach and at the same time maintain its vitality.
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Connecting with Students Online

Jennifer Serravallo's Connecting with Students Online gives you concise, doable answers based on her own experiences and those of the teachers, administrators, and coaches she has communicated with during the pandemic.

Author: Jennifer Serravallo

Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books

ISBN: 0325132291

Category: Education

Page: 144

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The professional development for online teaching and learning that you've been asking for An unprecedented pandemic may take the teacher out of the classroom, but it doesn't take the classroom out of the teacher! Now that you're making the shift to online teaching, it's time to answer your biggest questions about remote, digitally based instruction: How do I build and nurture relationships with students and their at-home adults from afar? How do I adapt my best teaching to an online setting? How do I keep a focus on students and their needs when they aren't in front of me? Jennifer Serravallo's Connecting with Students Online gives you concise, doable answers based on her own experiences and those of the teachers, administrators, and coaches she has communicated with during the pandemic. Focusing on the vital importance of the teacher-student connection, Jen guides you to: effectively prioritize what matters most during remote, online instruction schedule your day and your students' to maximize teaching and learning (and avoid burnout) streamline curricular units and roll them out digitally record highly engaging short lessons that students will enjoy and learn from confer, working with small groups, and drive learning through independent practice partner with the adults in a student's home to support your work with their child. Featuring simplified, commonsense suggestions, 55 step-by-step teaching strategies, and video examples of Jen conferring and working with small groups, Connecting with Students Online helps new teachers, teachers new to technology, or anyone who wants to better understand the essence of effective online instruction. Along the way Jen addresses crucial topics including assessment and progress monitoring, student engagement and accountability, using anchor charts and visuals, getting books into students' hands, teaching subject-area content, and avoiding teacher burnout. During this pandemic crisis turn to one of education's most trusted teaching voices to help you restart or maintain students' progress. Jennifer Serravallo's Connecting with Students Online is of-the-moment, grounded in important research, informed by experience, and designed to get you teaching well-and confidently-as quickly as possible. Jen will be donating a portion of the proceeds from Connecting with Students Online to organizations that help children directly impacted by COVID-19.
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Keep the Rest of the Class Reading and Writing

Learn how to structure collaborative, literacy-focused activities for "the rest of the class" while you provide direct instruction to small groups.

Author: Susan Finney

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

ISBN: 059068566X

Category: Education

Page: 128

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Learn how to structure collaborative, literacy-focused activities for "the rest of the class" while you provide direct instruction to small groups.
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Independent Reading Activities That Keep Kids Learning While You Teach Small Groups

"50 engaging reproductible activity sheets, management strategies, and tips for differentiating instruction that help kids build key strategies independently"--Cover.

Author: Susan Finney

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

ISBN: 0439309417

Category: Education

Page: 128

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"50 engaging reproductible activity sheets, management strategies, and tips for differentiating instruction that help kids build key strategies independently"--Cover.
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Welcome to Writing Workshop

From explanations of writing process and writing traits to small-group strategy lessons and minilessons, this book will provide the know-how to feel confident and comfortable in the teaching of writers.

Author: Stacey Shubitz

Publisher:

ISBN: 9781625311665

Category: Education

Page: 216

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Stacey Shubitz and Lynne Dorfman warmly welcome you to experience writing workshop for the first time or in a new light with Welcome to Writing Workshop. Through strategic routines, tips, resources, and short focused video clips, teachers can create the sights and sounds of a thriving writing workshop where: * both students and teachers are working authors * students spend most of their time writing--not just learning about it * student choice is encouraged to help create engaged writers, not compliant ones * students are part of the formative assessment process * students will look forward to writing time--not dread it. From explanations of writing process and writing traits to small-group strategy lessons and minilessons, this book will provide the know-how to feel confident and comfortable in the teaching of writers.
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Assessing Writing Across the Curriculum

However , in their comprehensive review of grouping for instruction in
mathematics , Good , Mulryan , and McCaslin ( 1992 ) state research on small
groups is incomplete , particularly on students ' reactions to working in groups
and on ...

Author: Charles R. Duke

Publisher:

ISBN: UCSC:32106017184018

Category: Education

Page: 273

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Contains a collection of twenty-one essays that provide a guide for assessing and teaching writing in content areas, such as English, science, mathematics, and social studies, for the upper levels of high school, and describes different methods for teaching, assignments and how to grade them, and staff development.
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Writing Across the Curriculum

Authors chair does not have to be a class-wide performance of students' writing. Instead, they might conduct readings of their writing to small groups of ...

Author: Shelley S. Peterson

Publisher: Portage & Main Press

ISBN: 9781553792390

Category: Education

Page: 192

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As the amount of curriculum in today’s classrooms expands and teaching time seems to shrink, teachers are looking for ways to integrate content area and writing instruction. In this revised and expanded edition of Writing Across the Curriculum, Shelley Peterson shows teachers how to weave writing and content area instruction together in their classrooms. The author provides practical and helpful ideas for classroom teachers and content-area specialists to easily incorporate writer’s workshop while teaching in their subject area. New features in this second edition include: • Websites that can be used to teach writing (e.g., wiki’s, weblogs, and digital storytelling) • Examples from grades 4-8 classrooms that show how science, social studies, health, and mathematics teachers can also be teachers of poetry, narrative, and non-narrative writing • New assessment scoring guides • Information on working with struggling writers and supporting English Language Learners • Graphic organizers, templates, and mini-lessons that engage students in learning
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Differentiated Instructional Strategies for Writing in the Content Areas

"Filled with easy-to-implement ideas, clearly explained. This book helps teachers differentiate with confidence.

Author: Carolyn Chapman

Publisher: Corwin Press

ISBN: 9781452273648

Category: Education

Page: 176

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Use writing as a tool for helping students master content! This updated edition of a best-selling book offers explicit strategies for differentiating writing instruction to help students learn content and develop as writers. The authors address how to create a climate for writing, use flexible groupings, differentiate instruction, and assess student writing. Offering new strategies and activities for effective writing instruction, this second edition: Covers informational text writing and critical thinking skills Includes guidance for working with English language learners Discusses current research about writing and learning Offers expanded coverage of assessment methods and tools
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Small group Writing Conferences K 5

Holly Slaughter tells you when and how to use small-groups and gives you tips for planning, record keeping, and trouble shooting.

Author: Holly Slaughter

Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books

ISBN: 0325017360

Category: Education

Page: 108

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How can you work with twice as many students each day? And give struggling writers more attention? All without diminishing the quality of your teaching? By making the most of conferring with Small-Group Writing Conferences. Small-Group Writing Conferences shows why small groups work. And how they can boost your instructional effectiveness. You'll compliment and coach more students through the writing process each day. You'll focus on explicitly teaching writing strategies, scaffolding learning across everything students write. You'll gather more assessment information than ever - a big help for differentiation Your teaching will stick better as students practice and discuss strategies together, then link them to prior learning. Holly Slaughter tells you when and how to use small-groups and gives you tips for planning, record keeping, and trouble shooting. She describes four kinds of writing conferences that allow you to plan instruction or confer whenever and however you need to: Table Conferences - Conferring with heterogeneous groups to address some students' needs and reinforce strategies for others Skill Conferences - Grouping students with similar needs for explicit instruction or guided practice Expectation Conferences - Using groups to teach students to manage materials and self-monitor Progress Conferences - Seeing how a group has fared with a strategy and promoting accountability for learning. Every moment you spend conferring is precious. Read Small Group Writing Conferences and discover how small groups can help you make each second twice as valuable.
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Conferring with Readers

Conferring with Readers shows you how to confer well and demonstrates why a few moments with students every week can put them on the path to becoming better, more independent readers.

Author: Gravity Goldberg

Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books

ISBN: STANFORD:36105124015921

Category: Education

Page: 203

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Conferring with Readers shows you how to confer well and demonstrates why a few moments with students every week can put them on the path to becoming better, more independent readers.
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Writing Groups Inside and Outside the Classroom

His research includes Small Groups in Writing Workshops: Invitations to a Writer's Life and articles on small group theory in Dialogue, College Composition ...

Author: Beverly J. Moss

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781135620080

Category: Education

Page: 284

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This unique collection considers the nature of writing groups inside and outside the academic environment. Exploring writing groups as contextual literacy events, editors Beverly J. Moss, Nels P. Highberg, and Melissa Nicolas bring together contributors to document and reflect on the various types of collaborations that occur in writing groups in a wide range of settings, both within and outside the academy. The chapters in this volume respond to a variety of questions about writing groups, including: *What is the impact of gender, race, and socioeconomic class on power dynamics in writing groups? *When is a writing group a community and are all writing groups communities? *How does the local community of a writing group impact the participation of group members in other local or global communities? *How does the local community of a writing group impact the participation of group members in other local or global communities? *What actions contribute to a strong community of writers and what actions contribute to the breakdown of community? *When and for whom are writing groups ineffective? *What is it about belonging to a community of writers that makes writing groups appealing to so many within and beyond the academy? Each chapter highlights how writing groups, whether or not they are labeled as such, function in various spaces and locations, and how collaboration works when writers from a variety of backgrounds with diverse interests come together. Writing Groups Inside and Outside the Classroom illustrates that writing groups outside of the academy are worthy of study and serve as important sites of writing and literacy instruction. Offering significant insights into the roles of writing groups in literacy and writing practice, this volume is appropriate for scholars and teachers of writing, rhetoric, composition, and literacy; for writing center administrators and staff; and for writing group participants.
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Small Group and Team Communication

Idea Writing Idea writing also typically divides a large group into small working
groups but differs from buzz sessions in that it provides those smaller groups with
a written task , rather than an oral discussion . Each participant in the small group
 ...

Author: Thomas E. Harris

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon

ISBN: PSU:000062502665

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 337

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Praised for its writing style, research base, and range of topics covered, Small Group and Team Communication develops issues of diversity, ethics, technology and the organizational use of groups and teams within a systems theory framework. Clearly organized and logically presented, this book provides the opportunity for outstanding discussions of critical issues. Harris and Sherblom effectively integrate real-world examples, hypothetical situations, social science theories, and scholarly research into a unified discussion of small group and team communication. Through extensive examples, case studies, and exercises, Small Group and Team Communication engages the reader and guides them from theoretical discussions into application and experience of the concepts presented.
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Negotiating the Personal in Creative Writing

However some creative writing teachers prefer a practice common in composition – the continuing small group or writers' group. This chapter considers its ...

Author: Carl Vandermeulen

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

ISBN: 9781847694379

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 229

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Using the author?s own experiences in addition to a survey of 150 creative writing teachers, this book critiques the creative writing workshop and suggests a possible replacement that ?unsilences? the writer and recognises the complexities of the student?teacher relationship by focussing on dialogue rather than criticism.
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