• CPS High Quality Literacy Handbook
  This resouce is part of the Chicago Reading Initiative. It is divided by K-3, 4-8 and H.S. It clearly explains many specific strategies for literacy instruction with support for: Word Knowledge, Fluency, Comprehension and Writing. It explains what students would do, what the teacher would do and what the evaluator would look for during observations. It also includes Observation Guides for Literacy Instruction in a rubric format.
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• Debbie Diller & Associates Educational Consulting
  The home site has a video clip of Debbie Diller's new DVD. Debbie Diller has written books and developed DVDs that are excellent resources for using literacy stations.
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• Dual Language books prepared by ELLs ALL TEACHERS MUST SEE
  At Fairview School, the ESL students have worked very hard to complete dual language books. The students wrote stories in their native language and in English. Click on the links to the books below to read and listen to their stories.
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• English Companion.com: Room with a View
  This page tries to bring you into our classroom and show you what certain activities and assignments look like for Note-taking strategies, Graphic strategies, Discussion Strategies, Teaching strategies
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• English Language Learners: The Essential Guide (Theory and Practice)
  David Freeman and Yvonne Freeman, two of the leading experts on English language learning show mainstream teachers in a variety of settings how to support language growth through content areas, organize curriculum around themes, draw on primary language and culture, emphasize meaningful reading and writing, and develop academic language. Scenarios from classrooms at different grade levels show teachers how to implement effective practices for meeting the needs of their English language learners. For use with Grades K–12.
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• English Learners, Academic Literacy, and Thinking
  Deep understanding, critical thinking, subject knowledge, and control of academic literacy are goals we have for all our students. Pauline Gibbons presents an action-oriented approach that gives English learners high-level support to match our high expectations. Focusing on the middle grades of school, she shows how to plan rigorous, literacy-oriented, content-based instruction and illustrates what a high-challenge, high-support curriculum looks like in practice.Strongly recommended by Jim Cummins
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• Exploring Writing in the Content Areas
  This book by Maria Carty helps teachers of content-area subjects discover ways to help their students become better, more capable writers. It shows them how to take students through all the steps involved in producing written documents—from generating ideas to researching to revising and editing—and provides them a wealth of practical tips for supporting and encouraging student work. Exploring Writing in the Content Areas suggests specific techniques designed to help students:
  Stenhouse books and videos help K-12 teachers deepen their professional knowledge and build their students' skills as readers, writers, and thinkers.
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• Guided Reading at the Emergent Level (2 Videos)
  Guided Reading at the Emergent Level Video Observe four actual guided reading sessions and learn how to prepare for and initiate a successful guided reading program in your classroom. This is a page from WrightGroup.com. Scroll down to read more about the resource.
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• Improving Adolescent Literacy: Content Area Strategies at Work, 3rd Edition
  This guide by Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey is packed with real classroom examples of specific teaching strategies in action and features a focus on working with English language learners and struggling readers, ideas for using different technologies to enhance teaching, an up-to-date research base of current sources of support and additional reading, and an excellent assessment chapter showing how various formal and informal assessments can be used in the classroom.
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• Improving Reading, Writing, Thinking and Content Achievement (MUST SEE)
  This website is through Township High School District 214. This site includes reading and/or thinking skills, and links for printable graphic organizers and assignment templates. The organizers and writing templates scaffold the writing tasks with sample language. Rec. by: Sam Markey
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• Into the Book: Teacher Area Strategies
  This web site is a resource for teachers to further their knowledge on implementing specific reading strategies in the classroom. There are reading lessons and examples as well as specific definitions for each strategy plus sample videos. The site also includes downloadable material such as music, lyrics, and posters for each strategy and much more. A section for students is also available. Rec. by Jennifer Zitella.
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• Introduction to Teaching Strategies
  This page is dedicated to making it easier to implement a variety of teaching methods and techniques. Scroll down to find scores of teaching strategies that help students take more responsibility for their own learning and enhance the process of teaching for learning.
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• Launching Literacy Stations (DVD): Mini-Lessons for Managing and Sustaining Independent Work, K–3
  Literacy work stations are being embraced in many elementary schools as a way to ensure students of all ages are completing thoughtful, challenging tasks while their teachers meet with small groups of students. Debbie Diller, author of the book Literacy Work Stations, takes you into two primary classrooms to demonstrate how to create a thriving stations program. Patty Terry's first grade students and Vicky Georgas' second graders work in stations that include a wealth of literacy tasks designed to build academic and collaborative skills across the curriculum.
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• Learn to Read at Starfall - teaching comprehension and phonics MUST SEE
  The Starfall learn-to-read website is offered free as a public service. If you are teaching emergent readers, this is a very valuable site. It provides options for K-1 students that they can use independently or with a partner.
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• Learning From What Doesn't Work
  Older students can read with enthusiasm and understanding, especially when teachers avoid ineffective practices that promote disengagement. This article by Gay Ivey and Douglas Fisher identifies reading strategies that are ineffective for older learners and gives examples of effective alteranatives. Article in Educational Leadership Oct. 05, Vol. 63 #2 Reading Comprehension pages 8-15
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• Literacy for Second Language Learners Links
  Articles & Resources available on the internet related to literacy for both bilingual and ESL programs
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• Literacy Instruction For English Language Learners (Highly Recommended)
  Internationally recognized ELL experts Nancy Cloud, Fred Genesee, and Else Hamayan have examined the research evidence to determine what works for ELL students. They recommend best practices for teaching English learners to read and write from emergent literacy to primary school and on through middle school. Their guide makes the research understandable and their suggested practices actionable.
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• Literacy Strategies for Improving Mathematics Instruction
  Book by Joan M. Kenney, Euthecia Hancewicz, Loretta Heuer, Diana Metsisto and Cynthia L. Tuttle This book examines the importance of language to competency in math and offers strategies for developing literacy skills related to math. Rec. by ASCD
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• MoraModules Index
  Below is a list of the online instructional modules I have designed to prepare teacher candidates for the Bilingual Cross-cultural Language and Academic Development (BCLAD) and the Preliminary credentials under California legislation SB 2042 and AB 1059. The AB 1059 legislation requires that all new teachers in California be prepared to teach English language learners in their classrooms. The modules address theories, methods and techniques for instructing English language learners in bilingual, sheltered immersion and mainstream classrooms. There are several modules for curriculum design, thematic unit planning, and lesson planning for L2 learners to guide and assist educators in improving second-language, literacy and content-area instruction
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• Mosaic Listserve Tools
  Great forms/graphic organizers for student reading and writing thinking strategies. Multiple Resources and Materials * Assessment * Lesson Plans * Parents* Writing * Other * Photographs * Staff Development * PowerPoint Pesentations * Worksheet / Reporting Forms, etc.
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