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Promote Reading Gains with Differentiated Instruction: Ready-to-Use Lessons for Grades 3-5
Accelerate learning gains using differentiated instruction! This professional teaching resource supports educators with easy-to-use lessons that strengthen students’ reading skills. This book provides teachers with 36 lessons that support differentiated instruction in grades 3, 4, and 5. The lessons focus on four advanced reading visualize, infer, draw conclusions, and compare/contrast. Written by literacy experts Laura Robb and Tim Rasinski and award-winning children’s author David L. Harrison, this book offers useful lessons and reading strategies that meet students’ diverse reading needs. The first part of this resource provides helpful information that supports the ready-to-implement lessons in the second part. These lessons create opportunities for individual and collective growth by reading, discussing, and writing about poems and texts. Build key literacy skills such as comprehension, critical thinking, vocabulary building, and word study with this teacher resource!
312 pages, Perfect Paperback
Published September 19, 2023
About the author
Laura Robb
123 books4 followersAuthor, teacher, coach, and speaker, Laura Robb has completed 43 years of teaching in grades 4-8.
She presently coaches teachers in reading/writing workshop at Powhatan School in Virginia and coaches teachers in grades K-8 in Staunton, Virginia, Long Island, and Ann Arbor, Michigan, and West Nyack, New York.
She presently coaches teachers in reading/writing workshop at Powhatan School in Virginia and coaches teachers in grades K-8 in Staunton, Virginia, Long Island, and Ann Arbor, Michigan, and West Nyack, New York.
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March 16, 2024
What an incredibly helpful book for grade 3-5 Reading/ELA teachers! The price looks a little steep, but this book is a treasure that teachers can put into use immediately.
Children’s author and Missouri poet laureate David L. Harrison has teamed up with literacy education experts Laura Robb and Timothy Rasinski to give teachers both theory and practice, covering the science and art of teaching reading.
Part I Improving Comprehension and Fluency gives rationale and tips for student independent reading, readers’ notebooks, literary conversations, teacher read-alouds, and formative assessments. It includes actual classroom examples that show teachers what to expect. One area that is often omitted in the attempt to cover the material or get on to the next thing is reflection on the reading or the lesson. Reflective questions for both students and teachers are included here. Answers will give students self-awareness about their own learning and enable teachers to adjust their instruction for peak effectiveness.
Teachers are expected to be models for students and are given tips on how to model cold writing. The book offers advice and checklists for conferring with students and how to support student read-aloud and performance. The book includes Harrison’s short poems for multiple voices for performing, so teachers do not have to spend time searching for material. Guidance on facilitating student-led discussions will increase student agency in taking charge of their own learning. The section on teacher interventions driven by assessment results will lead to better readers.
Part II contains the differentiated lessons on visualizing, inferring, drawing conclusions, and comparing/contrasting. Each lesson includes short texts by Harrison, a focus lesson with thinking questions and a word ladder that can be reproduced or projected for classroom use for grades 3, 4, and 5.
Harrison’s short texts may complement science or social studies curriculum and can be used to reinforce lesson concepts and to demonstrate the importance of reading in all subject areas.
Appendices, Resources, and an Index give the book valuable back matter.
Highly recommended for Reading or ELA teachers in grades 3, 4, and 5 and for university and college students studying education.
I received a complimentary copy of this book for a fair review.
Children’s author and Missouri poet laureate David L. Harrison has teamed up with literacy education experts Laura Robb and Timothy Rasinski to give teachers both theory and practice, covering the science and art of teaching reading.
Part I Improving Comprehension and Fluency gives rationale and tips for student independent reading, readers’ notebooks, literary conversations, teacher read-alouds, and formative assessments. It includes actual classroom examples that show teachers what to expect. One area that is often omitted in the attempt to cover the material or get on to the next thing is reflection on the reading or the lesson. Reflective questions for both students and teachers are included here. Answers will give students self-awareness about their own learning and enable teachers to adjust their instruction for peak effectiveness.
Teachers are expected to be models for students and are given tips on how to model cold writing. The book offers advice and checklists for conferring with students and how to support student read-aloud and performance. The book includes Harrison’s short poems for multiple voices for performing, so teachers do not have to spend time searching for material. Guidance on facilitating student-led discussions will increase student agency in taking charge of their own learning. The section on teacher interventions driven by assessment results will lead to better readers.
Part II contains the differentiated lessons on visualizing, inferring, drawing conclusions, and comparing/contrasting. Each lesson includes short texts by Harrison, a focus lesson with thinking questions and a word ladder that can be reproduced or projected for classroom use for grades 3, 4, and 5.
Harrison’s short texts may complement science or social studies curriculum and can be used to reinforce lesson concepts and to demonstrate the importance of reading in all subject areas.
Appendices, Resources, and an Index give the book valuable back matter.
Highly recommended for Reading or ELA teachers in grades 3, 4, and 5 and for university and college students studying education.
I received a complimentary copy of this book for a fair review.
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