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Perfect for Winter lessons, a picturebook from Janet Allen
BEST LITTLE WINGMAN
by Janet Allen, illustrated by Jim Postier
Boyds Mills Press
December 2005
Read about this charming new book and the fabulous book launch party in an article called "How to Launch Your Book With Style" in the December issue of the Smart Writers Journal on SmartWriters.com, by Editorial Director Roxyanne Young.
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Download a free coloring page from illustrator Jim Postier here.
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 Inside Words: Tools for Teaching Academic Vocabulary Grades 4 - 12
Publisher: Stenhouse
ISBN: 978-1571103994
We've learned a lot in recent years about the important role
vocabulary plays in making meaning, yet many teachers still struggle
with vocabulary instruction that goes beyond weekly word lists.
Effective vocabulary instruction is particularly vital in the content
areas, where the specialized language used by “insiders” often creates
a barrier to understanding for those new to the subjects. In Inside Words,
Janet Allen merges recent research and key content-area teaching
strategies to show teachers how to help students understand the
academic vocabulary found in textbooks, tests, articles, and other
informational texts.
Each instructional tool is listed
alphabetically along with its purpose: building background knowledge;
teaching words that are critical to comprehension; providing support
during reading and writing; developing a conceptual framework; and
assessing students' understanding of words and concepts.
Inside Words builds on Janet's previous books Words, Words, Words and Tools for Teaching Content Literacy,
to provide a much-needed middle and secondary school resource for
teaching vocabulary, not only in the language arts, but in all of the
content areas.
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 It's Never Too Late is a research chronicle that offers not only proven methods but also inspiration. Anyone working with "at risk" students�those for whom school has not been a place of success�will find here a reflection of their own experiences, plus thoughtful and creative strategies for making those experiences positive ones.
When Janet Allen, a respected lecturer, researcher, and award-winning teacher, began teaching in 1972, she was wholly unprepared for the challenges she encountered: motivating the unmotivated, developing a curriculum with no models to draw from, building an environment that supported strategic learning, finding creative resources with limited means, and dealing with reluctant, even rebellious students. More daunting, perhaps, was the challenge of constantly rekindling her own fervor for teaching. But she persevered and found ways to break through those obstacles.
It's Never Too Late is at once a story and a "how to" book. Readers will find absorbing case studies, photographs, quotes from educators, surveys, activities, and step by-step strategies for teaching reading and writing to the most reluctant middle and secondary school students. Most important, they will find affirmation for the powerful role they play as teachers.
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 Maya Angelou says, "Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning." On the Same Page celebrates the use of our voices in shared reading with students to help them gain deeper understanding of the texts we read. If you have enjoyed the increased engagement and motivation that accompany reading with your students and wondered how to extend those benefits throughout the day, this book offers support for using this approach as a foundation for learning across content areas.
On the Same Page explores the use of shared reading as an instructional approach for readers and writers at all levels of language proficiency. Janet Allen provides research, resources, practical ideas, and strategies for building from shared reading to increase students' literate experiences in a variety of curricular and instructional areas:
strategic reading and comprehension
building background knowledge for content literacy
personal, academic, and public writing
transitions to independent reading
community knowledge and literature circles
increased vocabulary
modeled fluency
On the Same Page is enriched with a wide range of student work as well as extensive appendices of additional resources, graphic organizers, suggested reading lists, and teaching guides for implementation of shared reading in your classroom.
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Description
Having trouble interesting your students in history or the history textbook? Concerned about the ability of your students to actually read the textbook? Learn ways to tie reading strategies to the learning of history and sources that will help history come alive for your students. Nationally known literacy advocate Janet Allen discusses strategies for teaching nonfiction reading using Joy Hakim's award winning A History of US series as the center of a blossoming campaign among educators to integrate literacy and history. Classroom tested at a variety of grade levels, real student samples are interspersed throughout the book providing clearer understanding of the strategies in action. Reviews
"Reading History is a great idea-Janet Allen's strategies have won her a very large audience. I highly recommend this book." - Dennis Denenberg, Professor of Elementary and Early Childhood Education, Millersville University
Product Details
176 pages; 38 halftones; 7-1/2 x 9-1/4; 0-19-516595-0
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 5 Audio CD's or 4 90-minute Audio Tapes
$99 for either CD or Tape
1-57110-339-2 (4 90-minute audiotapes)
1-57110-347-3 (5 audio CDs)
Be our guest at one of Janet Allen's popular Literacy Institutes, recorded live in Jacksonville, Florida. Thoughtful, amusing, and ever practical, Janet discusses and explores many of difficulties every literacy educator faces daily:
understanding the elements that get in the way of reading success;
choosing texts that match the needs and interests of children and adolescents;
using the approaches to reading--read aloud, shared, guided, and independent--to build solid reading foundations for all learners;
finding specific strategies to overcome challenges to content literacy;
developing strategies for effective instruction in vocabulary development;
building on the mutual supports of reading and writing to increase language fluency and content knowledge;
finding and using appropriate resources for assessment and evaluation that inform classroom instruction;
combining all these elements into a comprehensive literacy-based classroom.
Each of these elements is supported by published research and writing, as well as Janet's twenty years as a classroom teacher. Her humor will hold your attention, and her vignettes of classroom experiences will resonate with every teacher who has spent days or years trying to help children and adolescents discover literate lives.
A listening and study guide is available for download as a PDF document from the publisher.
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 "Down by the seaside, among the rugged rocks and cliffs and in the shadow of an old lighthouse, lived many, many cats of different kinds and different colors..."
So begins this wonderful book about reading aloud to kids. A must-have for classroom teachers at all levels who want to learn how to draw their students in with read-aloud stories that will spark them to better writing, reading, and listening.
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 What do you do with students who cannot or will not read and write? This portrait of Kyle Gonzalez’s classroom offers teachers theory-based strategies for helping students become motivated and successful readers and writers. You will see how one middle school teacher sets up her literacy classroom, offers intervention and support for struggling students, and assesses their progress. Rich in description of Kyle’s successes, the book also looks honestly at why some practices were ineffective in her setting.
With Janet’s and Kyle’s practical and detailed suggestions for creating a literate environment, you’ll learn how to:
establish a literacy workshop
choose and use effective resources
implement effective, informative record-keeping
help students establish goals and assess progress
use read-alouds as well as shared, guided, and independent reading and writing
instill reading and writing practices that help students read content-specific texts
There’s Room for Me Here includes record-keeping forms, extensive bibliographies of literature and professional materials, resource information, and samples of strategy lessons all embedded in this engaging story of a teacher’s first three years building a literacy workshop in her classroom.
Kyle’s students are middle school learners who struggle with literacy. The strategies, content-area connections, and management ideas, however, are applicable and appropriate for use by any 3-12 teacher.
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 Reading and writing across content areas is emphasized in the standards and on high-stakes tests at the state and national level. As educators seek to incorporate content-area literacy into their teaching, they confront a maze of theories, instructional strategies, and acronyms like REAP and RAFT. Teachers who do work their way through the myriad content reading and writing strategies are discovering not all activities are appropriate for content instruction: only those with a strong research base meet the high standards expected in classrooms today.
Janet Allen developed the ideal support for teachers who want to improve their reading instruction across the curriculum. Tools for Teaching Content Literacy is a compact tabbed flipchart designed as a ready reference for content reading and writing instruction.
Each of the thirty-three strategies includes:
a brief description and purpose for each strategy
a research base that documents the origin and effectiveness of the strategy
graphic organizers to support the lesson
classroom vignettes from different grade levels and content areas to illustrate the strategy in use
The perfect size to slip into a plan book, Tools highlights effective instructional strategies and innovative ideas to help you design lessons that meet your students’ academic needs as well as content standards. The definitions, descriptions, and research sources also provide a quick reference when implementing state and national standards, designing assessments, writing grants, or evaluating resources for literacy instruction.
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 Do you spend hours creating word lists and weekly vocabulary tests only to find that your students have "forgotten" the words by the following week? Janet Allen and her students were frustrated with the same problem. Words, Words, Words describes the research that changed the way she and many other teachers teach vocabulary. It offers educators practical, research-based solutions for helping students fall into new language, learn new words, and begin to use those words in their speaking and writing lives.
This book offers teachers detailed strategy lessons in the following areas:
activating and building background word knowledge
making word learning meaningful and lasting
building concept knowledge
using word and structural analysis to create meaning
using context as a text support
making reading the heart of vocabulary instruction
Words, Words, Words provides educators with a strong research base, detailed classroom-based lessons, and graphic organizers to support the strategy lessons. At a time when teachers are struggling to meet content standards in reading across the curriculum, this book offers some practical solutions for meeting those standards in ways that are meaningful and lasting.
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READING HISTORY: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO IMPROVING LITERACY, by Janet Allen, with Christine Landaker, from Oxford University Press.
Having trouble interesting your students in history or the history textbook? Concerned about the ability of your students to actually read the textbook? Learn ways to tie reading strategies to the learning of history and sources that will help history come alive for your students.
Nationally known literacy advocate Janet Allen discusses strategies for teaching nonfiction reading using Joy Hakim's award winning A History of US series as the center of a blossoming campaign among educators to integrate literacy and history. Classroom tested at a variety of grade levels, real student samples are interspersed throughout the book providing clearer understanding of the strategies in action.
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 Do you spend your days working with students who struggle to comprehend reading in literacy and content classes? Are you looking for a way to establish comprehensive literacy instruction in your school or classroom so all students receive support in becoming competent and confident readers?
In Yellow Brick Roads, Janet Allen offers research-based methods for helping teachers move toward these goals. This book provides research, practical methods, detailed strategies, and resources for read-aloud, shared, guided, and independent reading. In addition, Janet outlines solutions for many of the literacy dilemmas that teachers face every day:
understanding what gets in the way of reading
rethinking and reorganizing time and resources
providing support for content literacy
developing assessment practices that inform instruction
supporting reading as a path to writing instruction
establishing professional communities to support individual and school-wide needs-based research
The appendixes include graphic organizers to support strategy lessons, suggestions of titles for building classroom libraries, as well as web sites and professional resources that support the teaching of reading.
Yellow Brick Roads will give you rich ideas, detailed strategies, and literature support for implementing those strategies. At a time when many are looking for that elusive wizard to solve students' reading problems, this book helps you create your own paths to effective literacy environments.
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