More Than 100 Ways to Learner-Centered Literacy.

This updated edition helps beginning and experienced teachers build vocabulary skills, promote student interaction with relevant activities, strengthen fluency and comprehension, and produce meaningful student assessments.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lipton, Laura
Other Authors:	Hubble, Deborah S.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2008.
Subjects:	Language arts (Preschool) > United States. Language arts (Elementary) > United States. Active learning > United States. Literacy > United States. Active learning Language arts (Elementary) Language arts (Preschool) Literacy United States
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Table of Contents:

Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Introduction
Section I
Designing a Literate Environment
Chapter 1
Learning Language by Using it
1. Labels, Labels Everywhere
2. Where in the Room is it?
3. Wordstrings
4. String 'Em up
5. Hang-Ups
6. Shoe Bag Classification
7. Word Ribbons
8. Class Mailbox
9. Message Center
10. Personal Word Banks
Chapter 2
Building on Students' Experiences
11. Classroom Libraries
12. Mainly Menus
13. Taking Off with Advertising Flyers
14. Weekly Words
15. The Living Bulletin Board
Chapter 3
Establishing Literacy Workstations
16. Workstation Rules
17. The Key to Knowledge
18. Housekeeping
19. Introducing the Writing Workstation
Section II
Orchestrating Student Interaction
Chapter 4
Buddy Studies: Learning in Pairs
20. Turn to Your Neighbor and ...
21. Level-of-Learning Reading Partners
22. Learning Partners
23. Paired Verbal Fluency
24. Learning-Partner Biographies
25. Summary Pairs
26. The King and Queen of Questions
Chapter 5
Structuring Small Groups
27. Story Map Trios
28. Get the Point
29. Peer Revision: Learning Together
30. Peer Editing: Sharing Glows and Grows
Chapter 6
Reading Conference: Flexible Student Grouping
31. Establishing the Climate
32. Student Preparation
33. Temperature Checking
34. Developing the Format
35. Flexible Groupings
36. Working One on One
Section III
Developing Fluent Comprehension
Chapter 7
Developing Skills by Increasing Fluency
37. Choosing and Using Predictable Text
38. Innovations on Text
39. Toot! Toot!
40. Radio Reading
41. Say it Like the Character
42. Reader's Theater
43. Partners Predict
44. Opin
45. Word Splash
46. Say Something
Chapter 8
Extending the Reading Experience.
47. Figures of Speech
48. Create a Comic
49. Finding Common Ground
Chapter 9
Integrating Instruction
50. Student-Selected Theme Topics
51. Civic Projects
52. Imagine if You Were ...
Section IV
Nurturing Lifelong Learners
Chapter 10
Routines for Reading to, with, and by Children
53. Read Alouds
54. Familiarity Breeds Confidence: Shared Reading
55. We are Readers: A Class Record
56. Sustained Silent Reading
57. Guided Reading
Chapter 11
Writing Centers: Reading/Writing Connection
58. Readers' and Writers' Workshops
59. Purposeful Tasks
60. Published and Unpublished Work
61. Paths to Publication
Chapter 12
Building a Community of Learners
62. Literature Clubs
63. Join the Chorus
64. Mine, Yours, and Ours
65. Writing Autobiographies
Section V
Assessing Student Growth
Chapter 13
Kid-Watching in the Classroom
66. Anecdotal Records
67. A Nifty Notebook
68. Sticky Helpers
69. Individual Student Checklists
70. Class Checklists
71. Historical Checklists
72. Interviews
73. Open-Ended Questions
Chapter 14
Student Portfolios
74. Crate 'Em up
75. Bulky Bundles
76. Portfolio Contents
77. Portfolio-Prompted Planning
78. Entry Slips
79. Autobiographies of Work
80. Biographies of Work
Chapter 15
Exhibitions and Performance Tasks
81. Building in Authenticity
82. Anchors and Archetypes
83. Developing a Rubric
84. Exciting Exhibitions
Section VI
Leading Learning-Focused Conversations: Strategies for Professional Development
Chapter 16
Crafting the Container: Starting, Structuring, and Sustaining Thinking
85. Simple Stem Completions
86. T-Chart Opposites
87. 3-2-1
88. Mindful Memorandum
89. Brainstorm and Pass
90. Problem-Solving Partnerships
91. Going Graphic.
Chapter 17
Learning-Focused Consultation
92. An Idea Menu
93. Make Your Thinking Transparent
94. Patterned Response: What, Why, How
95. The Big Idea
96. Categorically Speaking
97. Sharing Causal Theories
Chapter 18
Inviting Thinking: A Sampler of Questions for Literacy Coaching
98. Questions for Planning
99. Questions for Reflecting
100. Questions to Stimulate Discussion
101. Metaphor and Invention
References and Further Readings
Index.

More Than 100 Ways to Learner-Centered Literacy.

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