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An indispensable guide to brain-based learning. Diane Connell summarizes current brain research and discusses the implications for the classroom. She offers tools to identify learning styles and ideas for differentiating lessons and activities to engage all students. Covers brain development, multiple intelligences, information processing, emotional intelligence, and much more. ... Read more

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A Great Resource!!
Diane Connell's "Brain-Based Strategies To Reach Every Learner" is a great resource for teachers AND parents!
As a primary school teacher for 20 years, and now currently working as a consultant in schools with parents,students and teachers on how to switch students on to learn in a way that makes sense to them, I can highly recommend this book. Crammed full of really useful information - and presented in a style that makes sense - you don't have to be a teacher to understand the message that we all learn in different ways... and that learning can be fun!
For teachers there are so many great tips and ideas which can be easily implemented in the classroom and for parents who want to find out what makes their child 'tick', this book is a real revelation. A top read - well done Diane!

A good resource for teachers
"Brain Based Strategies to Reach Every Learner" by Diane Connell, Ed.D. is a worthwhile resource for teachers who want an overview of the principles of some important psychological theories and how they apply to lesson plans in the classroom.For example, the book offers strategies for visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners and the importance of using lesson plans that reach each type of student.Other ideas include memory strategies.Often children may be asked to simply memorize information (e.g. the 50 states), but may have difficulty simply memorizing or may forget the information after a short time.The book offers some excellent ideas (based on memory research) to help a child to put information into long-term memory from working memory.Other topics include Gardner's nine factor theory of intelligence.Once again, it describes Gardner's theory (which is an excellent one by the way), and offers suggestions in the classroom to reach kids with various strengths (e.g. musical intelligence) which are not consistently measured in traditional school curriculums on a consistent basis.The book begins with basic brain anatomy and discussion of left and right brained learners.The reader will probably find some new ideas to apply to lesson plans and in using these ideas may be able to reach more nontraditional learners. ... Read more

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Overhead Writing Lessons: Powerful Paragraphs Classroom-tested, ready-to-use overhead lessons plus reproducibles loaded with practice will help you teach students to write great essays, powerful paragraphs and strong sentences. 48 pages plus 10 transparencies. ... Read more

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Excellent teaching tools
The overheads that go along with this book are fantastic.The worksheets are a little young for my middle schoolers, but they are a helpful reinforcement.

Powerful Paragraphs
This is an easy-to-use resource for teaching basic paragraph writing skills. Skills are taught step-by-step using graphic organizers and simple instructions. It covers topic sentences, developing a paragraph, transitions, expository paragraphs, narrative paragraphs, descriptive paragraphs, persuasive paragraphs, and editing. Including in the booklet are overheads that would be useful in a classroom setting. Visual learners will especially like this resource.

I only give it 4 stars because the price of $12.99 is a little expensive for homeschool parents since they would not use the overheads and much of this information is easily found elsewhere. For classroom teachers using overheads, the price is reasonable. ... Read more

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Lessons, activities, poems, and book lists along with helpful hints and how-to's that make teaching poetry a joy. Help students develop fluency, enhance comprehension, use vivid language, understand metaphor and simile, and so much more. Motivate even the most reluctant readers with fresh ideas and wonderful poems in this beautifully written guide, a source of teaching ideas and inspiration! ... Read more

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This is a wonderful book on how to teach poetry to middle and high school students. I would recommend this book to all that are interesting in not only learning more about poerty but teaching it as well. ... Read more

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Excellent
Practical, step-by-step procedures for writing lessons.The lessons help teachers with specific ideas and ways to help every student succeed.Excellent resource. ... Read more

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Mini-Lessons, Activities, and Word Lists to Help Students Read With the Speed, Automaticity, and Expression Essential for Better Reading Comprehension
Don¹t Forget This Reading Strategy!
The author of the bestselling Phonics from A-Z now shares the a wealth of practicalideas for helping students become fluent readers. Includes an easy assessment,many fun activities, oral reading strategies, and word lists that targets words, syllables, and spelling patterns kids should master for fluent reading. ... Read more

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Building Fluency
The speed drills are quick, easy to manage in small groups and help students reach attainable goals.

Marginal Usefulness
Although the information in this book is useful, it is not the activity book that the shopper might be expecting.The fluency passages are too few, and the lower-level passages are reapeated twice on the page.While this makes duplication easy, it sacrifices additional fluency passage inclusion. Although some of the speed drills and word activities are useful, this book is a little light on content.

Great resource for classroom teachers
This book offers many practical lessons to help students become more fluent readers.Great suggestions and charts for students to record their progress.Teacher friendly!

Building Fluency: Lessons and Strategies for Reading Success
This is a must have for teachers. It is full of wonderful fluency building activities.It provides lots of passages for use in your classroom. It also provides some really good assessments.

A must have for new teachers
This book is wonderfully straightforward and immediately applicable in your classroom.It clearly explains the why and the how so you can target this area of reading instruction which is often neglected.It is a quick read and the suggestions are easy to implement without a large investment of time or money.The activities suggested are meaningful, not cutesy, and the assessment suggestions are authentic.Also, the book suggests ways to allow students to track their own progress.This would complement whatever reading program you use; whether basal, 4-blocks, or balanced literacy. ... Read more

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A complete guide to organizing and managing an effective reading workshop that builds independent, strategic readers. 160 pages. Grades 1-5. ... Read more

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Great ideas for launching the workshop
This book has some great ideas for launching the Readers' Workshop. It also has some good information and templates to use when conferring with readers.

Great Teacher Resource!
This is a great book! I am a reading specialist and I shared it with the teachers at my school and they all loved it. It is an easy, quick read with practical suggestions. A must have!!!

reading workshops
I found this book very helpful as I created reading lesson plans for ESL students.

A wonderful resource
This book is a great introduction and overview to reading workshop.It gives minilesson ideas as well as books to use for minilessons.It also explains the components of reading workshop clearly and gives resources to copy and use in the classroom.

Quick, user-friendly, and thorough
One of THE most helpful books I've ever read regarding reader's workshop.I have used (and shared) this techniques over and over with my students & colleagues.I can't imagine my reader's workshop without this resource!You shouldn't either.It's worth the $15 and then some!! (Also just saw these same ladies came out with one on writer's workshop, can't wait to read that!) ... Read more

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Help students write effectively and raise their test scores with fun writing prompts and expert lessons on writing five-paragraph essays, organizing a story, writing expository pieces, mastering persuasive writing, and more. ... Read more

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Best Yet!
This is without question the best book to guide students' writing! The first lesson creates a clear example of how to set up an essay with main idea sentences, details and clear distinctions between paragraphs. It is such a good first lesson that I refer to it when teaching all subsequent lessons. The book is easy to follow and I have seen great results with my students. There are no more tears when it is writing time because they understand what to do as I a guide them carefully through each step using this book. You won't regret this purchase!

10 Easy Writing lessons
This book is wonderful.I have been looking for a book to help my 4th graders prepare for the Writing Assessment, and this is it.The kids love the lessons and everyone from my Sp.Ed students to my Gifted students have been making progress.My husband sometimes reads stories that my students write and he has seen an improvement.One of my parents said that her son's everyday writing is even getting better, and she knows we have been writing.We still have a lot more of the book to cover . I know their writing will get even better as we progress.

Subbing Observation
I was in a classroom substituting, and saw some of the activities from this book being used. The kids
were motivated! I ordered the book for my own use! Some of the activities can be used as journal writing/time or fillers.

The BEST writing book in 13 years!
In my 13 years of curriculum, I have not found a writing book better than this one for elementary school.Well worth every penny of the money spent.

The lesson plans are done for you, and they are step by step!There are modeled pieces of writing included and bulletin board display ideas. There are skills imbedded in the lesson.

There are also additional writing ideas which can convert the 10 weeks into 30 weeks of writing practice.

Great for new teachers!Great for those of us who are uncomfortable teaching writing, because we are unsure of our own writing quality.

I LOVE this book.

Great Results!!
I have a third and fourth grade classroom.I find the lessons contained in this book provide easy to follow, day by day steps that the children enjoy writing about.Students who had barely written three sentences are now writing five paragraphs with all the components of a good paragraph.I highly recommend this book, which can be adapted to any classroom, to increase your students writing skills!! ... Read more

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great resource
I found this a helpful and supportive aid to the research-based programs we use in my school.I liked the variety of reading selections (poetry, narrative, etc.) and the direct, explicit teaching that supports fluency instruction. ... Read more

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At the beginning of every school year, we bet you ask yourself, OWhat do I want my students to knowand do as readers and writers by the end of this year?O This bookNjust for KindergartenNmakes that question easy to answer by taking all theguesswork out of teaching reading and writing. Provides a detailed curricular calendar that's tied to a developmental continuum and the standards so you'll know not only what you should be teaching, but what your students are ready to embrace and what you can reasonably expect of them as successful readers and writers. Additionally, you'll find monthly units of study that integrate reading and writing so both work together to provide maximum support for your students. The units are organized around four essential components, process, genre, strategy, and conventions, so you're reassured you're addressing everything your students need to know about reading and writing. What's more you'll find ready-to-use lessons that offer exemplary teaching and continuous assessment, and a flexible framework that shows you how to frame a year of teaching, a unit, and a lessonNand you can easily adapt all to fit the unique needs and interests of your own students.For use with Grade K. ... Read more

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Exceptional Resource for Kindergarten Teachers and Parents
As an educator who has taken some time off from teaching to raise a family, this book has been an exciting resource as my oldest is gearing up for his kindergarten year.It's extremely well-organized and filled with thoughtful ideas to develope reading and writing skills.I love the anchor text suggestions and the many student examples throughout the book.It makes me want to get back in the classroom.

Great!!!!
This book has been so helpful!I am a kindergarten teacher, and I was looking for some other concrete ideas on enhancing my literacy block and writer's workshop.This book has been wonderful as I am also continuing to implement the daily 5 in my classroom as well.I love this book!!!

An Excellent Curriculum!
I have been using the writing component of The Complete Year in Reading and Writing with my kindergarten students since the beginning of the year.The book is very easy to use with units on process, genre, strategy, and conventions laid out in a strategic way.I have seen my students blossom as writers as we go back to similar writing prompts throughout the year.As a teacher I see their progress as they write "longer and stronger."More importantly my students are seeing their own progress.The program encourages students to use each other as resources to grow as writers.In this way, they also grow as storytellers, sharing their ideas with each other.

What a joyous and wonderful resource for teachers!
The Complete Year series is a wonderful, rich, and empowering resource for teachers. The series provides just the support and structure you need with the flexibility you have always wanted. I watched my friends and colleagues use the lessons with such success and I have seen the joy for reading and writing that the lessons bring to so many students. I highly recommend these books for all K-5 teachers and administrators. ... Read more

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Hands-On Word Family Activities for Young Readers is a handy resource that offers you easy-to-use material for guiding children (K-3) in real reading experiences by teaching them word families. While using this book, you will be able to give your students the opportunity to learn and practice the essential phonological skills of onset and rhyme as they read an enticing story or poem. This book offers you a wide variety of engaging methods for teaching word families including art projects, poems, big books, and little take-home books. As you progress through the book's lessons, your students will learn to write the word families fluently and to manipulate magnetic letters and words. In addition, Hands-On Word Family Activities for Young Readers contains easy-to-follow lessons for each word family, helps to build self-esteem, and increases independence as students gain confidence while learning to master the contents.

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First grade teacher
Great resource book! I especially liked how diverse the lessons are- there is word work, as well as stories and poems that give students a chance to practice what they are learning. A must for any teacher in grades 1-3!!! ... Read more

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Are there differences in the development of children in different types of day care? Does it matter how old children are when they begin attending day care? How does the behaviour of carers affect the development of children in their care? How do children who have been in day care fare when they go on to school? These and many other questions relevant to child development are being asked now that more children spend some of their pre-school years in day care. This is a book about research relevant to the development of these children.

The way in which children are cared for changes over time and differs from country to country. The book discusses the variety of these arrangements and illustrates some of the differences in the typical daily experiences of young children in day care in Britain. Against this background the main part of the book is devoted to a review of the results of a large number of researchprojects in day care. The discussion of research is preceded by a short description of the normal course of child development

during the pre-school years.

Children and Day Care presents some challenging ideas for the future of services for young children and for the future relationship between research and people working in day care.

The authors have considerable experience of research in day care for young children and have taken part in a major longitudinal study of day care in Britain. This book will be relevant to all those who work with young children, or who are concerned in any way with providing the best possible services for them.

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Great Curriculum
We use this entire series (4 books plus bible story book) in our church based daycare program. Kids love it. Teachers love it. Easy to use. Easy to follow. Substitutes can easily plug into the flow of the day. Incorporates God into every area of learning. I highly recommend this series. ... Read more

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?This pragmatic and visionary work provides impressive new evidence for the Anduring beneficial effecto of high-quality, family-oriented, comprehensive early education in a public school setting.?--Edward Zigler, Sterling Professor ofPsychology, Yale UniversityThis book provides a framework for planning, administering, and evaluating a comprehensive birth-to-kindergarten program. ... Read more

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Powerful writing lessons at teachers' fingertips! Use the transparencies to launch discussions of voice, organization, word choice, leads and more. Students compare models designed to illustrate when a craft element is used effectively, and when it's not. Discussion questions prompt kids to recognize the strengths and weaknesses of each piece and help them analyze what makes the writing work. Significantly improves the quality of student writing. ... Read more

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Great resource!
This is a great resource for all language arts teachers who are looking for extra help with teaching writing.I love to use these for lessons or quick activities when our class has a little extra time before the period ends.Also a great book to have handy for substitutes.Easy to use and full of great ideas! ... Read more

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Teach your little one some big lessons in this A-B-C board book.