books: a classroom response

books: a classroom response

books:

A classroom response

Teaching the Classics in the Inclusive Classroom: Reader Response Activities to Engage All Learners

Katherine S., Ph.D. McKnight, Bradley P., M.A.T. Berlage

Jossey-Bass, 2007

Hope for the classics
This book helps prove that teaching the classics doesn't have to be boring. Teaching, as well as learning the classics can be a daunting task, but McKnight and Berlage break it down into meaningful, exciting and enriching lessons. I especially enjoy the information ...

Classroom Performance Radio Frequency Response Pad for Higher Education: Generation 2 Clicker

eInstruction Corporation, 2006

Great Idea, works well!
I am sitting in a classroom of 700 students taking a chemistry course. About twenty minutes into the lecture, the professor asks a multiple choice question. He gives the class three minutes to work on it. I click my answer on the RF response pad, and it blinks green ...

A Celebration of Literature and Response: Children, Books, and Teachers in K-8 Classrooms (3rd Edition)

Marjorie R. Hancock

Prentice Hall, 2007

Hands-On Children's Literature
Marjorie Hancock introduces teachers to some of the best titles in Children's Literature. Going beyond mere introductions, she suggests methods for implementing various response methods and for integrating Children's Literature into the classroom. She has taken the ...

Teaching Written Response to Text: Constructing Quality Answers to Open-Ended Comprehension Questions

Nancy N. Boyles

Maupin House Publishing, 2001

The Answer to Open-ended Questions is Here!
This is the perfect way for teachers to break down open-ended questions. So many states are asking students to write open-ended answers and teachers don't always know how to teach this. This book allows teachers to include open-ended questions as a part of their ...

Response to Intervention: A Practical Guide for Every Teacher

Corwin Press, 2007

Responding to Respone to Intervention
As a special education teacher on special assignment this year to implement RTI, I will be brief and to the point. I attended a lecture by this professor and now have read his book. If you want clear cut information about how to implement RTI and what choices would ...

Writing to Prompts in the Trait-Based Classroom: Literature Response
Ruth Culham, Amanda Wheeler

Teaching Resources, 2004

Prompts that provide all the elements students need to start writing: a role, audience, format, topic and strong verb (R.A.F.T.S).

On the Teaching of Creative Writing: Responses to a Series of Questions
Wallace Stegner

Montgomery Endowment, Dartmouth, 1989

A concise, inspirational discourse by one of America's finest writers, on the difficulties, rewards, and importance of teaching creative writing.

Reading Instruction for Students Who Are at Risk or Have Disabilities

William D. Bursuck, Mary Damer

Allyn & Bacon, 2006

An Essential Book for Reading Teachers (tutors too)
This is the best book I've ever seen to buy if you are a K-5 teacher (general ed or special ed) concerned with teaching children to read well and to enjoy reading. It is presented in a straightforward, very user-friendly format that lends itself to immediate ...

i>clicker: A Classroom Response System

iclicker

W. H. Freeman, 2006

Great clicker
My time at college has seen the use of several clickers for use in the classroom. However, most ran off of IR technology and was a PAIN to get an answer into the receiver, even with multiple receivers set up. The iclicker runs off of radio frequencies so you don't even ...

25 Fun and Fabulous Literature Response Activities and Rubrics: Quick, Engaging Activities and Reproducible ...

Christine Boardman Moen

Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching, 2002

Fun Stuff!
This is a nice activity book for my middle school resource room students. It gives fun hands-on extension lesson ideas.

Responses to Literature: Grades K-8
James M. Macon, Diane Bewell, ...

International Reading Association, 1990

A tool for teaching students how to respond to literature, this text provides classroom activites preceded by a concise description that includes the purpose of the activity and the grade level it addresses, as well as completed and blank charts. Activities are classroom tested.

102 Reading Response Lessons: Improving Comprehension Skills for Test Day--and Beyond
Kristin Noelle Wolfgang

Corwin Press, 2005

Empower your students to skillfully analyze and respond in writing to any comprehension question! Helping students comprehend what they read is a challenging goal, but even more daunting is teaching students to answer comprehension questions in writing. Based on the author?s interactions with her students, this innovative text presents a ...

Peer Response in Second Language Writing Classrooms (The Michigan Series on Teaching Multilingual Writers)
Jun Liu, Jette G. Hansen

University of Michigan Press/ESL, 2002

Peer response in which students work together to provide feedback on one another's writing in both written and oral formats through active engagement with each other's progress over multiple drafts, has been discussed in L2 writing literature since the early 1980s. While peer response activities have now become a common feature of L2 writing ...

Book Talk and Beyond: Children and Teachers Respond to Literature
Nancy L. Roser

International Reading Association, 1995

Listen in on classroom conversations and learn how to motivate and facilitate students? literary discussions. Prominent authors detail actual classroom dialogues that show how you can foster children?s literary development through such activities as forming teacher and student book clubs, teaching and using webbing and language charts, and ...

Reader Response in Secondary and College Classrooms

Lawrence Erlbaum, 1999

This textbook focuses on the application of the transactional theory of literature asserted by Louise Rosenblatt - on activating it in the classroom, with the theory being expressed as background.