The big book of literacy tasks, grades K-8
Subtitle: 75 balanced literacy activities students do (not you!)
By: Nancy Akhavan
Publisher: Corwin Literacy
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9781506389639
Subjects: Language arts (Middle school); Language arts (Elementary); Literacy; Study and teaching (Middle school); Study and teaching (Elementary)
Description: "A compendium of reading and writing tasks that virtually all teachers have students do, with the value-add of expert scaffolding tips that ensure students are doing the work--not the teacher. Based on research on coherence by Elmore and others at Harvard. Perfect for balanced literary classrooms whether workshop centered or literature based"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A new spin on who, what, why, when and where; title: Making predictions to help comprehension; title: Journal writing after reading; title: Make a connection to the world when reading a text independently; title: Quoting an important idea in a nonfiction text; title: Name character motives and actions; title: Name rising plot; title: Name plot resolution; title: Tell the text; title: Dig deeper into the text; title: Guided comprehension talks; title: Elaborate and clarify meaning; title: Setting routines for independent reading; title: Fixing up when attention wanders; title: Communicating your heads-up ball approach; title: Answering a text-dependent question; title: Tell why (you think, believe, remember, know) with why messages; title: Make a bold statement about a text; title: Extend thinking when discussing a text; title: One-liners for nonfiction texts; title: Crystal ball predictions; title: Yesterday's news; title: Annotate text; title: Sentence strip statements; title: Write questions about reading; title: Super cool three steps to describe an experience; title: Getting kids to write: wonderful concentration; title: Sketch to write; title: Getting help from another writer: write dialogue in narratives and quotes in reports; title: Getting help from another writer: write a hook; title: The right amount of details, the right amount of clarity; title: Thinking small to write well; title: Writing a jot about what was read; title: Works too long and never gets any writing done; title: Dialogue journals; title: Analyze for author's purpose with a text that is a little too hard for students to read on their own; title: Create a structured outline of a text; title: Collecting research and organizing notes for writing; title: Plot summary snapshots; title: Writing information in a new format; title: Stay on point in writing; title: Productive use of the author's chair; title: Write a short research report; title: Write an all about text; title: Your students have voice: writing an opinion text; title: Arguing the solution to a problematic situation; title: Writing the recipe for success: how-to texts; title: Writing explanations, be like an encyclopedia; title: Inquiry for smart minds; title: Responding to literature with some kick to it; title: Identify theme in a complex text; title: Posing questions for easier inquiry; title: Writing a fable or myth; title: Writing a fairy tale; title: Justifying an answer with a claim and evidence; title: Use known info to help others learn new info; title: Connecting ideas between texts; title: Identifying real facts from made-up facts: fallacious reasoning; title: Brainstorming multiple valid answers/responses; title: Concept mapping between big ideas; title: Make me ponder: questions that get the thinking juices flowing; title: Writing compare and contrast response to literature; title: Peer-to-peer analysis and response; title: Critique a functional document or text; title: Visible and visual: use known concepts and vocabulary to understand a text; title: Summarize a text that is a little too hard for students to read on their own; title: Student think-alouds; title: Separate central idea from a big idea; title: Writing in different genres or multimedia to engage and persuade; title: Creative debate; title: I am a reader; title: I am a writer; title: Look up; title: Goodbye, perfect teacher; title: Teacher and learner.