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"The ability to recognize and analyze the structure and ideas behind a piece of writing is an enormous part of the Common Core Standard for Reading. The Common Core was developed to give readers and students the tools they need to succeed in school and in a career situation. This volume contains poetry by Robert Frost and Edgar Allan Poe and science writing excerpts, with quiz questions and advice from experts on how to best read and interpret the...
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One important part of the Common Core Standards for Reading is the ability to read two (or more) separate pieces of writing and then find their similarities and differences. This volume, penned by two teachers, provides that important piece of the Common Core Standards by including several lengthy pieces of writing that students can read and enjoy and then study, with a new eye for comparing and contrasting, using the provided interactive quiz questions...
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This book features: 23 practical classroom activities that help students understand and remember what they read, in mathematics, science, social studies, English, and more; a tough analysis of today's textbooks, along with specific ways to use them more effectively; a new "balanced diet" of reading, including 150 real books of interest to teenage readers; instructions for growing a rich classroom library in your subject area; plans for setting up...
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"Understand and remember more of what you read with 20 easy-to-follow lessons to build confidence and skills. This eBook provides tips for note taking and other vital memory aids, along with a pre-test and an appendix of word roots, prefixes, and suffixes." --
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Practical, engaging account of how teachers can help adolescents develop new reading comprehension skills. Cris Tovani is an accomplished teacher and staff developer who writes with verve and humor about the challenges of working with students at all levels of achievement - from those who have mastered the art of "fake reading" to college-bound juniors and seniors who struggle with the different demands of content-area textbooks and novels. Enter...
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For Kylene Beers, the question of what to do when kids can't read surfaced in 1979 when she met and began teaching a boy named George. When George's parents asked her to explain why he couldn't read and how she could help, Beers, a secondary certified English teacher with no background in reading, realized she had little to offer. That moment sent her on a twenty-three-year search for answers to the question: How do we help middle and high schoolers...
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