Capstone Classroom imprint: 26 books
by Dr. Michael P. Ford
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Three common routines are seen in almost every primary language arts programs: morning messages, shared readings, and word walls. These routines should be integrated to support the total language arts program, but are teachers of grades K2 getting the most bang for their buck out of these activities?...
The Power of Playful Learning
The Green Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Go green in your classroom! This collection of playful activities will support and complement your classroom curriculum, and the games and activities can be made almost entirely from common household recyclables. Each activity includes simple instructions for creating the game or toy and a list of educational...
A Bookbag of the Bag Ladies Best
Resources, Ideas, and Hands-on Activities for the K-5 Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Are you a creative teacher or notice that there's more to teaching than the rigor of skills and core instruction? Have you wondered what the missing piece is that would allow students to be a member of a team, apply standards in a creative way, and learn skills hands-on? Start here with A Bookbag of...
by Jane Feber
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Make reading intervention engaging and effective for striving adolescent students. Thirty-five activities focus on phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension and are aligned with the College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards from the Common Core State Standards addressing...
Comprehensive Literacy Basics
An Anthology by Capstone Professional
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Teaching English language arts at grades K-5 is both a science and an art. Educators must teach literacy skills and content with best practices, while also keeping focus on each student’s individual needs. They are challenged to monitor students working independently while also conducting small group...
by Molly Cochell, Laura Fullmer
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Kindergarten teachers know that a child's first taste of school should be engaging, active, social, and fun! Yet teachers are presented with a challenge. How do they nurture the holistic, exploratory nature of early childhood while teaching with the intentionality and rigor required to meet learning...
by Mike Artell
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The author writes a wonderful story. The illustrator creates incredible images. But what can educators bring to their read-alouds? Do the read-alouds ROCK? The fact is, every read-aloud is a performance. And every aspect of a read-aloud performance informs a child's understanding and appreciation of...
The New Balanced Literacy School
Implementing Common Core
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Create a new approach to balanced literacy grounded in research-based best practices. This book infuses best practices of the new balanced literacy model through the lens of Common Core, with support on read-alouds, guided reading, language and literacy centers, word walls to language walls, independent...
Kindergarten and the Common Core
It's as Easy as ABC!
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
How do we teach with rigor to our youngest learners? How do we implement standards that spell out quite clearly what students must know but do not give us either the methods or materials that help our students achieve such skills? This professional resource provides practical routines and developmentally...
Discovering Voice
Lessons to Teach Reading and Writing of Complex Text
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Discovering Voice is a collection of classroom exercises that helps students deeply understand the reading and writing of complex text. The lessons, which cover diction, detail, figurative language, imagery, syntax, and tone, help students understand voice in what they read and encourage them to develop...
Examining the Evidence
Seven Strategies for Teaching with Primary Sources
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Educators are being challenged as never before to invite reality into the classroom and allow students to explore it. This book will help you meet the challenge. Primary sources are the very documents that history is made of, the images that science is based on, the raw material of our lives. They are...
Reading to the Core
Learning to Read Closely, Critically, and Generatively to Meet Performance Tasks
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Close, critical, and generative reading can be broken down into five key questions that a strategic reader must answer: What does the text say? How does the author say it? What does the text mean? What does it mean to me? What insights can I now gain? In this resource, the authors show that insight into...
Living Literacy at Home
A Parent's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Reading to children at home is a joyful and celebratory time for parents and children alike. Both relish in the story and the time spent together. Early exposure to texts provides other benefits as well because it prepares the child for school and builds a love of reading. Living Literacy at Home provides...
Finding Voice
Introductory Lessons to Teach Reading and Writing of Complex Text
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Finding Voice, written by Nancy Dean with Natalie Danaher, is a foundational book for elementary students and teachers that addresses close reading of complex text through understanding and practicing the elements of voice. The book is a collection of classroom lessons that cover the tools authors use...
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