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Designed to help you scaffold your students' reading and writing, Toolkit for Teachers of Literacy will be the resource you'll turn to for teaching and assessing literacy! Diane Nettles presents a hands-on collection of assessment tools and teaching strategies that classroom teachers will love using! Broken down into five parts for quick reference and ease of use, Toolkit for Teachers of Literacy takes the guesswork out of teaching literacy. Take a look inside... Section I, Teaching Tools for Reading Instruction, a collection of strategies and tools for teaching, addresses early literacy assessments and ideas, strategies for learning story elements, nonfiction text organizers, comprehension strategies, and classroom management ideas. Section II, Rubrics for Analyzing Writing, features a set of writing rubrics correlated to benchmarks for grades one through eight and based on Vicki Spandel's instructional "six traits model" of teaching writing. Section III, Reading Assessments for the Classroom Teacher, is a complete set of classroom reading assessments such as forms, charts, and complete instructions for administering all of the assessments, including the results from a running record notation. Section IV, Using Standards-Based Literacy Portfolios, features literacy portfolios organized around the most important components of reading recommended by the National Reading Panel, and outlined in No Child Left Behind: phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency. Section V, Phonics Mini-Lessons: Understanding the Nature of Words, serves as a "refresher course in phonics" for pre-service and classroom teachers, with a set of 14 mini-lessons. Each lesson describes a phonetic element, using words pulled from children's books. Blackline Masters of many of the figures and forms described in the book are available online at www.ablongman.com/nettles1e and can be downloaded for immediate use in the classroom.

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PublisherAllyn & Bacon, Incorporated

ISBN-100205504140

ISBN-139780205504145

eBay Product ID (ePID)53560411

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Number of Pages176 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameTool Kit for Teachers of Literacy

Publication Year2006

SubjectTeaching Methods & Materials / Reading & Phonics, Professional Development, Teaching Methods & Materials / Language Arts, Literacy

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaEducation, Language Arts & Disciplines

AuthorDiane Hood Nettles

FormatPerfect

Dimensions

Item Height0.2 in

Item Weight15.5 Oz

Item Length10.9 in

Item Width8.3 in

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Target AudienceScholarly & Professional

IllustratedYes

Table of ContentIntroduction Section One Teaching Tools for Reading Instruction Early Literacy Tools Strategies for Facilitating Work with Story Elements Strategies for Facilitating Work with Nonfiction Text Classroom Management Techniques Section Two Rubrics for Analyzing Writing First Grade Second Grade Third Grade Fourth Grade Fifth Grade Middle School Section Three Reading Assessments for the Classroom Teacher Classroom Reading Mini-Assessments Classroom Reading Assessments: The Complete Running Record Section Four Using Standards-Based Literacy Portfolios How is a Standards-Based Literacy Portfolio Organized? What Goes into the Standards-Based Portfolio? Documenting Literacy Abilities Fluency Personal Reading Writing Section Five Phonics Mini-Lessons: Understanding the Nature of Words 1: Consonants 2: Vowels 3: Y and Was Vowels 4: R-Controlled Vowels 5: Vowel Digraphs 6: Vowel Diphthongs 7: Schwa 8: Hard and Soft C and G 9: The CVC or Closed Syllable Pattern 10: The CVCe Pattern 11: The CVVC Pattern 12: The CV or Open Syllable Pattern 13: Syllabication Patterns 14: Words with Affixes Answer Key to Self-Quizzes References for Toolkit Childrens References for Toolkit