The Big Book of Literacy Tasks, Grades K-8 : 75 Balanced Literacy Activities Students Do (Not You!) /: 75 Balanced Literacy Activities Students Do (Not You!). (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Nancy Akhavan.
• Authors: Akhavan, Nancy L
• Contents: Acknowledgments; Introduction; Section One: Everyday Tasks for Reading, Writing, and Thinking; 1. A New Spin on Who, What, Why, When, and Where; 2. Making Predictions to Help Comprehension; 3. Journal Writing After Reading; 4. Make a Connection to the World When Reading a Text Independently; 5. Quoting an Important Idea in a Nonfi ction Text; 6. Name Character Motives and Actions; 7. Name Rising Plot; 8. Name Plot Resolution; 9. Tell the Text; 10. Dig Deeper Into the Text; 11. Guided Comprehension Talks; 12. Elaborate and Clarify Meaning; 13. Setting Routines for Independent Reading; 14. Fixing Up When Attention Wanders; 15. Communicating Your Heads-Up Ball Approach; 16. Answering a Text-Dependent Question; 17. Tell Why (You Think, Believe, Remember, Know) With Why Messages; 18. Make a Bold Statement About a Text; 19. Extend Thinking When Discussing a Text; 20. One-Liners for Nonfi ction Texts; 21. Crystal Ball Predictions; 22. Yesterday’s News; 23. Annotate Text; 24. Sentence Strip Statements; 25. Write Questions About Reading; 26. Super Cool Three Steps to Describe an Experience; 27. Getting Kids to Write: Wonderful Concentration; 28. Sketch to Write; 29. Getting Help From Another Writer: Write Dialogue in Narratives and Quotes in Reports; 30. Getting Help From Another Writer: Write a Hook; 31. The Right Amount of Details, The Right Amount of Clarity; 32. Thinking Small to Write Well; 33. Writing a Jot About What Was Read; 34. Works Too Long and Never Gets Any Writing Done; 35. Dialogue Journals; Section Two: Weekly Tasks for Reading, Writing, and Thinking; 36. A nalyze for Author’s Purpose With a Text That Is a Little Too Hard for Students to Read on Their Own; 37. Create a Structured Outline of a Text; 38. Collecting Research and Organizing Notes for Writing; 39. Plot Summary Snapshots; 40. Writing Information in a New Format; 41. Stay on Point in Writing; 42. Productive Use of the Author’s Chair; 43. Write a Short Research Report; 44. Write an All About Text; 45. Your Students Have a Voice: Writing an Opinion Text; 46. Arguing the Solution to a Problematic Situation; 47. Writing the Recipe for Success: How-to Texts; 48. Writing Explanations, Be Like an Encyclopedia; 49. Inquiry for Smart Minds; 50. Responding to Literature With Some Kick to It; Section Three: Sometime Tasks for Reading, Writing, and Thinking; 51. Identify Theme in a Complex Text; 52. Posing Questions for Easier Inquiry; 53. Writing a Fable or Myth; 54. Writing a Fairy Tale; 55. Justifying an Answer With a Claim and Evidence; 56. Use Known Info to Help Others Learn New Info; 57. Connecting Ideas Between Texts; 58. Identifying Real Facts From Made-Up Facts: Fallacious Reasoning; 59. Brainstorming Multiple Valid Answers/Responses; 60. Concept Mapping Between Big Ideas; 61. Make Me Ponder: Questions That Get the Thinking Juices Flowing; 62. Writing Compare and Contrast Response to Literature; 63. Peer-to-Peer Analysis and Response; 64. Critique a Functional Document or Text; 65. Visible and Visual: Use Known Concepts and Vocabulary to Understand a Text; 66. Summarize a Text That Is a Little Too Hard for Students to Read on Their Own; 67. Student Think-Alouds; 68. Separate Central Idea From a Big Idea; 69. Writing in Different Genres or Multimedia to Engage and Persuade; 70. Creative Debate; 71. I Am a Reader; 72. I Am a Writer; 73. Look Up; 74. Goodbye, Perfect Teacher; 75. Teacher and Learner; References and Further Reading; Index;
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Thousand Oaks : Corwin
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (216 pages)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781544321899; 1544321899
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