The big book of literacy tasks, grades K-8 : 75 balanced literacy activities students do (not you!) / Nancy Akhavan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Akhavan, Nancy L., author.

Series:

Corwin literacy.

Corwin literacy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language arts (Elementary).

Language arts (Middle school).

Literacy--Study and teaching (Elementary).

Literacy.

Literacy--Study and teaching (Middle school).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (195 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks : Corwin, 2018.

Summary:

The Comprehensive Handbook for Scaffolding Students' Literacy Growth Our readers and writers must "do the doing" if they are to succeed. In The Big Book of Literacy Tasks, Nancy Akhavan offers an instructional plan designed to yield independent effort and engagement. 75 tasks in beautiful full-color two-pagers ensure gradual release by moving more swiftly from the "I do" teacher phase to the "you do," when students benefit from the healthy amount of struggle that is the hallmark of learning. (And spoiler alert: you kick the habit of hovering, over-explaining, and rescuing!) Backed by research and thoughtfully arranged to make day-to-day planning easier, this groundbreaking book provides: • Reading and writing tasks organized into 3 sections-everyday skills, weekly practices, and sometime engagements requiring greater complexity • Mini-lessons that are essential- whether you use a reading program, a workshop approach, or are just transitioning to Balanced Literacy • Colorful teaching charts allowing you to quickly grasp the high points of each lesson • A clear task structure for introducing and managing the stages as you move students toward independent practice • Mid-task "Watch Fors" and "Work Arounds" showing how to coach without risking helicopter teaching • Amazing scaffolding tips for meeting the needs of a range of learners • Sample student work that offers valuable insights on how to use the tasks as formative assessments Practical and engaging, The Big Book of Literacy Tasks gives you a clear framework for "working the minds" of your students, helping them forge their own path to becoming better readers and writers.

Contents:

A new spin on who, what, why, when and where

Making predictions to help comprehension

Journal writing after reading

Make a connection to the world when reading a text independently

Quoting an important idea in a nonfiction text

Name character motives and actions

Name rising plot

Name plot resolution

Tell the text

Dig deeper into the text

Guided comprehension talks

Elaborate and clarify meaning

Setting routines for independent reading

Fixing up when attention wanders

Communicating your heads-up ball approach

Answering a text-dependent question

Tell why (you think, believe, remember, know) with why messages

Make a bold statement about a text

Extend thinking when discussing a text

One-liners for nonfiction texts

Crystal ball predictions

Yesterday's news

Annotate text

Sentence strip statements

Write questions about reading

Super cool three steps to describe an experience

Getting kids to write: wonderfully concentrating minds generating ideas

Sketch to write

Getting help from another writer: write dialogue in narratives and quotes in reports

Getting help from another writer: write a hook

The right amount of details, the right amount of clarity

Thinking small to write well

Writing a jot about what was read

Works too long, and never gets any writing done

Dialogue journals

Analyze a text for author's purpose with a text that is a little too hard for students to read on their own

Create a structured outline of a text

Collecting research and organizing research notes for writing

Plot summary snapshots

Writing information in a new format

Stay on point in writing

Productive use of the author's chair

Write a short research report

Write an all about text

Your students have voice?writing an opinion text

Arguing the solution to a problematic situation

Writing the recipe for success: how-to texts

Writing explanations, be like an encyclopedia

Inquiry for smart minds

Responding to literature with some kick to it

Identify theme in a complex text

Posing questions for easier inquiry

Writing a fable or myth

Writing a fairy tale

Justifying an answer with a claim and evidence

Use known concepts to help others learn new information

Connect the dots, or ideas between texts

Identifying real facts from made-up facts?fallacious reasoning

Brainstorming multiple valid answers/responses

Concept mapping between big ideas

Make me ponder?questions that get the thinking juices flowing

Writing compare and contrast response to literature

Peer to peer analysis and response

Critique a complex or functional text

Visible and visual:

Use known concepts & vocabulary to understand a text

Summarize a text that is a little too hard for students to read on their own

Student think-alouds

Separate central ideas from big ideas

Writing in different genres or multimedia to engage and persuade

Creative debate

I am a reader

I am a writer

Look up

Good-bye, perfect teacher

Teacher and learner.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-0718-7305-9

1-5443-2190-2

1-5443-2192-9

1-5443-2189-9

9781071873052

OCLC:

1306158572