• 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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• In the Middle : New Understanding About Writing, Reading, and Learning
  A Classic Simply one of the best and most widely used resources for middle school language arts teachers, as we move towards workshop-centered learning. You'll refer to it often.
  Amazon.com: In the Middle: New Understandings About Writing, Reading, and Learning (9780867093742): Nancie Atwell: Books
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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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• Ladybugs, Tornadoes, and Swirling Galaxies: English Language Learners Discover Their World Through Inqui
  This book by Brad Buhrow and Anne Upczak Garcia is an engaging and vital resource for teachers endeavoring to address the needs not just of ELLs, but of all students in today's increasingly diverse schools. Highly rec. by Nancy Commins.
  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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• 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 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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• Nine Essential Instructional Strategies: Classroom Instruction that Works
  by Laura Varlas ASCD Curriculum Update Winter 2002 Researchers at Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL) have identified nine instructional strategies that are most likely to improve student achievement across all content areas and across all grade levels. These strategies are explained in the book Classroom Instruction That Works by Robert Marzano, Debra Pickering, and Jane Pollock.
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• Practice with Purpose: Literacy Work Stations for Grades 3–6
  Online book. In her new book, Debbie Miller shows teachers of grades three-to-six how to structure their classrooms so that all students can be successful doing meaningful independent work using literacy work stations. Practice with Purpose offers guidance on establishing routines for independent reading and response writing, as well as step-by-step instructions on how to set up and manage a variety of hands-on literacy work stations appropriate for intermediate 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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• Reading in a Second Langauge
  This is a chapter excerpt from the book Scaffolding Language, Saffolding Learning: Teaching Second Language Learners in the Mainstream Classroom by Pauline Gibbons.
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• Reading in a Second Language
  This is an excerpt from the book Scaffolding Language Scaffolding Learning, Teaching Second Language Learners in the Mainstream Classroom (2002) by Pauline Gibbons
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• Reading in a Second Language (very helpful for teaching reading to ELLs)
  This is a chapter excerpt from the book Scaffolding Language, Saffolding Learning: Teaching Second Language Learners in the Mainstream Classroom by Pauline Gibbons.
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• Reading Power
  Browse Entire Book online. Gear provides an outstanding resource teaching students to think while they read. Get over a dozen sequential lessons for each of the five key reading comprehension strategies in the new book Reading Power. Includes student samples, book lists, reproducible forms, and an assessment rubric.
  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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• Reading Research and English Language Learners
  Article by Beth Atunez These studies reveal the importance of native language proficiency and the development of oral language skills for later reading and writing. Study after study has demonstrated that there is a strong and positive correlation between literacy in the native language and learning English
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• Reading Rockets
  Reading Comprehension & Language Arts Teaching Strategies for KidsThis website. It has: reading strategies for parents and teachers,parent support, videos and podcasts, articles, links to LDonline, and other sites. Rec. by Anne Opfer.
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• Reading Rockets : A Chance to Read
  This program is the newest episode of "Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers," WETA's award-winning series of innovative half-hour programs about how children learn to read, why so many struggle, and what we can do to help.
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• Reading Rockets (Featured Videos MUST SEE)
  The clips literacy clips are inclusive enough to provide effective modeling of reading and writing strategies. The videos are not ESL specific, but many are ESL-friendly. Note: The Assessment videos may not be as applicable to ELL assessment.
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