Synopses & Reviews
This conveniently organized resource book reflects the latest, most exciting ideas in literature focus units, reading/writing workshop, and thematic instruction. It provides step-by-step instructions for using fifty research based, classroom tested literacy strategiesencompassing reading, writing, listening, speaking, and visualizingand for each, supportive material helps classroom teachers decide the when, why, and how of optimal use. A Categorical Index of strategies appears on the inside front cover, serving as a handy reference for classroom use, making strategy selection easier and more reliable. New instructional strategies such as interactive writing, story retelling, and word sorts have been included. A supplemental book to assist elementary school teachers in literacy and language arts.
About the Author
Gail E. Tompkins is Professor Emerita at California State Unversity, Fresno, and she continues to direct the San Joaquin Valley Writing Project. She regularly works with teachers in their kindergarten through eighth-grade classrooms and leads staff development programs on reading, language arts, and writing. In 1998 Dr. Tompkins was inducted into the California Reading Association's Reading Hall of Fame in recognition of her publication and other accomplishments in the field of reading, and recently she was awarded the prestigious Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching at California's State University, Fresno.
Table of Contents
1. “All About. . . ” Books.
2. Alphabet Books.
3. Anticipation Guides.
4. Author's Chair.
5. Book Boxes.
6. Book Talks.
7. Choral Reading.
8. Class Collaborations.
9. Cloze Procedures.
10. Clusters, Webs, and Maps.
11. Cubing.
12. Data Charts.
13. Directed Reading-Thinking Activity.
14. Double-Entry Journals.
15. Exclusion Brainstorming.
16. Gallery Walk.
17. Goldilocks Strategy.
18. Grand Conversations.
19. Guided Reading.
20. Interactive Writing.
21. Instructional Conversations.
22. K-W-L Charts.
23. Language Experience Approach.
24. Learning Logs.
25. Literacy Centers.
26. Making Words.
27. Minilessons.
28. Open-Mind Portraits.
29. Plot Profiles.
30. Prereading Plan.
31. Question-and-Answer Relationships (QAR).
32. Quickwrites and Quickdraws.
33. Quilts.
34. Read-Arounds.
35. Readers Theatre.
36. Reading Logs.
37. Reciprocal Questioning.
38. Repeated Readings.
39. Reports and Informational Books.
40. Shared Reading.
41. Sketch-to-Stretch.
42. SQ3R Study Strategy.
43. Story Boards.
44. Story Retelling.
45. Sustained Silent Reading (SSR).
46. Tea Party.
47. Venn Diagrams.
48. Word Sorts.
49. Word Walls.
50. Writing Groups.