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Preface | |
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Creating Classrooms That Work | |
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Observing in the Classrooms of Unusually Effective Teachers | |
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What We Know about Classrooms That Work | |
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Creating Your Own Classroom That Works, Even Better | |
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Creating Enthusiastic, Independent Readers | |
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Assess and Document Your Students' Independent Reading | |
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Make Teacher Read-Aloud an Everyday Event | |
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Schedule Time Every Day for Independent Reading | |
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Accumulate the Widest Possible Variety of Reading Materials | |
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Schedule Conferences So You Can Talk with Your Students about Their Reading | |
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Make Time for Sharing and Responding | |
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Summary | |
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Building the Literacy Foundation | |
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Concepts That Form the Foundation for Literacy | |
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Activities for Building the Foundation | |
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Summary | |
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Fostering Fluency | |
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Mandate Easy Reading for Everyone | |
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Model Fluent, Expressive Reading | |
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Provide Engaging Rereading Opportunities | |
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Use a Word Wall to Teach High-Frequency Words | |
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Summary | |
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Teaching Phonics and Spelling Patterns | |
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Guess the Covered Word | |
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Using Words You Know | |
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Making Words | |
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The Nifty-Thrifty-Fifty | |
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The Wheel | |
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Summary | |
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Building Vivid, Vital, and Valuable Vocabularies | |
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How Do We Learn All the Words We Know? | |
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Provide as Much Real Experience as Possible | |
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Increase Meaning Vocabularies through Reading | |
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Teach Morphemes, Context, and the Dictionary to Learn New Words | |
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Teach Children to Monitor Their Vocabulary Knowledge | |
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Promote Word Wonder | |
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Summary | |
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Developing Thoughtful Comprehenders | |
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Comprehension Strategies | |
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Literate Conversations | |
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Think-Alouds | |
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Informational Text Lessons | |
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Story Text Lessons | |
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Summary | |
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Developing Ready, Willing, and Able Writers | |
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Starting the Year with Writer's Workshop | |
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Adding Editing to Writer's Workshop | |
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Adding Conferencing, Publishing, and Author's Chair to Writer's Workshop | |
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Adding Revising to Writer's Workshop | |
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Focused Writing | |
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Summary | |
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Reading and Writing across the Curriculum | |
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Use Shared Reading to Teach Your Students How to Read Informational Text | |
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Help Your Students Transfer Their Comprehension Strategies When Reading Science and Social Studies | |
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Spotlight Vocabulary in Science, Social Studies, and Math | |
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Link Vocabulary Development to Comprehension Lessons | |
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Writing to Learn | |
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Think-Writes | |
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Summary | |
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Assessment | |
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What Is Assessment? | |
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Determining Student Reading Level | |
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Identifying Good Literacy Behaviors and Documenting Student Progress | |
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Summary | |
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Differentiating Instruction for Diverse Learners | |
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Use a Variety of Collaborative Groupings | |
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Partner Older Struggling Readers to Tutor Younger Struggling Readers | |
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Find and Train a Tutor for Your Most Needy Child | |
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Coordinate with Reading and Other Specialists | |
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Use the Latest Technology | |
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Increase the Support You Are Providing Your English Language Learners | |
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Summary | |
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Inside Classrooms That Work | |
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A Day in a Kindergarten Classroom | |
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A Day in a Primary Classroom | |
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A Day in an Intermediate Classroom | |
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References | |
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Index | |