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Practical Action Research

A Collection of Articles

Reflecting the editor’s extensive experience, recent developments, and insights from experts, this updated collection helps educators engage in action research to improve educational outcomes.

12 Promoting Quality for Teacher Action Research Lessons Learned From
Science Teachers' Action Research Brenda M. Capobianco and Allan Feldman
INTRODUCTION During the past 10 years teachers in the United States have
been ...

Reading and Writing in Science

Tools to Develop Disciplinary Literacy

Help students access content in ways that foster understanding and critical thinking in science! Science literacy enables students to learn, reflect, and communicate about science throughout their lives. This book provides an approach for building secondary students’ disciplinary literacy and guiding students as they read science texts and produce their own writing. Written by a science educator and a literacy expert, this resource shows how to: Build students’ background knowledge and vocabulary Develop students’ science reading skills while they access content Use writing frames, graphic organizers, writing-to-learn, and a writing protocol Improve instruction and target specific needs through formative assessment

Questioning text material is a key component of disciplinary literacy in science. ...
The shared reading strategy, which is examined again later in this book, provides
readers with opportunities to raise questions that extend past the content of the ...

Writing for Understanding

Strategies to Increase Content Learning

Written specifically for non–language arts teachers, this resource focuses on using writing as an instructional tool to deepen and expand student understanding in the content areas.

As this strategy is internalized, it supports both active and subconscious
construction of new knowledge and understanding. ... book what happened
during a sports play or science experiment are, or should be, standard
instructional strategies.

Reading, Writing, and Inquiry in the Science Classroom, Grades 6-12

Strategies to Improve Content Learning

This resource covers reading and writing practices, science standards, and sample lessons to help educators successfully integrate literacy and science instruction in any classroom.

Strategies to Improve Content Learning Kathleen Chamberlain, Christine Corby
Crane ... 11 1.3 A Generative Learning Model Lesson—Pendulums 12 1.4
Changing Emphases in Science Education 16 2.1 Seven Types of Bias 23 2.2
Types of ...

Teaching Evidence-Based Writing: Fiction

Texts and Lessons for Spot-On Writing About Reading

One in a million. Yes, that’s how rare it is to have so many write-about-reading strategies so beautifully put to use. Each year Leslie Blauman guides her students to become highly skilled at supporting their thinking about texts, and in Evidence-Based Writing: Fiction, she shares her win-win process. Leslie combed the ELA standards and all her favorite books and built a lesson structure you can use in two ways: with an entire text or with just the excerpts she’s included in the book. Addressing Evidence, Character, Theme, Point of View, Visuals, Words and Structure, each section includes: Lessons you can use as teacher demonstrations or for guided practice, with Best the Test tips on how to authentically teach the skills that show up on exams with the texts you teach. Prompt Pages serve as handy references, giving students the key questions to ask themselves as they read any text and consider how an author’s meaning and structure combine. Excerpts-to-Write About Pages feature carefully selected passages from novels, short stories, and picture books you already know and love and questions that require students to discover a text’s literal and deeper meanings. Write-About-Reading Templates scaffold students to think about a text efficiently by focusing on its critical literary elements or text structure demands and help them rehearse for more extensive responses. Writing Tasks invite students to transform their notes into a more developed paragraph or essay with sufficiently challenging tasks geared for grades 6-8. And best of all, your students gain a confidence in responding to complex texts and ideas that will serve them well in school, on tests, and in any situation when they are asked: What are you basing that on? Show me how you know.

This section explicitly states how the lessons address test-taking skills and
provides ideas to introduce students to the genre of standardized tests. This
section offers a quick view to find This section. 2 LESSON 1 Ask and Answer
Questions ...

Teaching Evidence-Based Writing: Nonfiction

Texts and Lessons for Spot-On Writing About Reading

At heart, learning to read and write analytically is learning to think well For Evidence-Based Writing: Nonfiction, renowned teacher Leslie Blauman combed the standards and her classroom bookshelves to craft lessons that use the best nonfiction picture books, biographies, and article excerpts to make writing about reading a clear, concrete process. Students learn to analyze and cite evidence about main idea, point of view, visuals, and words and structure. And best of all, your students gain a confidence in responding to complex texts and ideas that will serve them well in school, on tests, and in any situation when they are asked: What are you basing that on? Show me how you know.

teaching students the “testing genre” and how summaries fit is wise, but teaching
them how summaries are important in their own scholarly life is just as important
—it makes these skills another tool in their reading and writing lives. My students
 ...

From Digital Natives to Digital Wisdom

Hopeful Essays for 21st Century Learning

Best-selling author and futurist Marc Prensky's book of essays challenges educators to “reboot” and make the changes necessary to prepare students for 21st century careers.

Differentiated Instructional Strategies for the Block Schedule

Eliminate "idea block" with this practical resource that includes more than 100 planning tools, matrixes, rubrics, templates, and choice boards for differentiating instruction during extended learning blocks.

Sternberg says successfull intelligent people • are self-motivated, independent,
and reasonably self-confident. • can control their impulses and delay gratification.
• initiate things, complete tasks, and follow through. • don't procrastinate and ...

Successful Inclusion Strategies for Secondary and Middle School Teachers

Keys to Help Struggling Learners Access the Curriculum

How do you reach the reluctant learner? This research-based resource offers great insights into the barriers that inhibit learning.

... flexible and assessment is continuous. We should inquire often of our textbook
publisher about the I 08 SUCCESSFUL INCLUSION STRATEGIES FOR
SECONDARY AND MIDDLESCHOOL TEACHERS Key 36: Universal Design
Learning.

Strategies for Successful Classroom Management

Helping Students Succeed Without Losing Your Dignity or Sanity

Help difficult students change negative behaviors with these strategies for teaching conflict resolution and anger management, handling power struggles successfully, helping students prevent bullying, and more.

The concept of fair versus equal enables us to give each student what he or she
needs to be successful. Be sure to explain to your class early in the year: "Being
fair means each of you get what you need. Being equal means each of you gets ...