Teaching for Success
Sharing Professional Books (Virtual Tour)
Stage of Literacy Development:
Stage 3: Literacy for GrowthAges:
9-12
Grade Range:
4th 5th 6thFood Groups:
Primary: Classroom Tips
Transcript
There are a number of resources that I use to guide my language, math, social studies, and science instruction with the kids. One of the resources is The Continuum of Literacy Learning by Fountas and Pinnell. I find this one particularly useful because it helps the teacher understand literacy exactly as that, as a continuum and not as a series of isolated task that happens throughout the grade. Another great resource also by Fountas and Pinnell is Guiding Readers and Writers and this resource helps to identify model strategies that teachers can employ. What's really great about this resource is it actually talks out the conversations and shows explicitly examples of how teachers can employ these strategies in their classroom. Teacher student-centered Mathematics by John Van De Walle, is an amazingly powerful resource for Math Instruction and unlike a textbook, this resource focuses on the key concepts and teaching math as a conceptual framework through problem solving. So instead of working on rote skills and individual questions, the guidance that this book offers is to delve deep into the concepts of math and teach them within problem solving. One of the most important pieces of Van De Walle is the communication piece and that we recognize communication as one of the math process that students learn and that communication in math is really really important so that, students don't just understand how to solve the problems but they understand how to show their solutions.
Related References
Activity Objective
The goal of Teaching for Success: Sharing Professional Books (Virtual Tour) is to promote motivation for literacy by learning about a repertoire of professional resources used by a classroom teacher.
Quick Tips
Additional Comments:
- Lucy Calkins Writing Workshop series provides teachers with six sequential units of study of topics from narratives to expository writing.
- The Literacy Continuum by Gay Su Pinnell and Irene Fountas is a guide to teaching literacy and links assessment to instruction.
- The Comprehension Toolkit by Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis provides resources and strategies for teaching reading.
- Guiding Readers and Writers by Gay Su Pinnell and Irene Fountas provides teachers with essential components of a literacy program.
- Teaching Student-Centered Math by John Van de Walle gives teachers practical strategies for teaching math concepts through problems.
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