Research and Reference
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The Authentic Assessment Toolbox offer how-to information about creating authentic tasks, rubrics, and standards for measuring and improving student learning. Author Jon Mueller includes detailed, practical application chapters: (1) What is it?; (2) Why do it?; (3) How do you do it?; (4) Standards; (5) Tasks; (6) Rubrics; (7) Portfolios; (8) Examples; (9) Glossary; and (10)
Topics: Reading and Language Arts. General — Assessment and Evaluation
Resource Type: Research and Reference
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In Teaching the Best Practice Way, Harvey Daniels and Marilyn Bizar present seven basic teaching structures that make classrooms more active, experiential, collaborative, democratic, and cognitive, while simultaneously meeting "best practice" standards across subject areas and grades. Each section begins with an essay outlining one key method, providing its historical background and research results, and then...
Topics: General — Creating Healthy and Supportive Environments
Resource Type: Research and Reference
Ages: 3-5
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Strategies for scoring children's' work are discussed at length and in concrete detail in this chapter excerpt. Authors Robert Johnson, Susan Agruso, Diane Monrad, and Therese M.
Topics: Reading and Language Arts. General — Assessment and Evaluation
Resource Type: Research and Reference
Ages: 4-5
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Rubistar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics, but does not have time to develop them from scratch. Users may use existing rubrics, edit existing rubrics, build rubrics from the beginning, and use the tool to analyze class data.
Topics: General — Assessment and Evaluation
Resource Type: Research and Reference
Ages: 3-5
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This inclusive first chapter, "Anchoring Word Knowledge," emphasizes that students need a more comprehensive, deeper conceptual understanding of words. Author Kellie Buis then details the role that anchored vocabulary instruction plays, pointing out that it assists our students in holding on to this deeper conceptual understanding.
Topics: Reading and Language Arts — Vocabulary Development, Learning New Words
Resource Type: Research and Reference
Ages: 4-5
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In this article, Dorothy Leal outlines the common characteristics of successful reading tutoring programs. Leal identifies these commonalities as: (a) offering many opportunities to read authentic materials, (b) providing many applications of reading integrated with authentic writing experiences, and (c) ensuring highly motivating reading and writing activities related to students' interests and abilities by caring tutors.
Topics: Reading and Language Arts — Reading, Vocabulary Development, Writing Development, Communication, Research
Resource Type: Research and Reference
Ages: 4-5
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This tutorial is a sample lesson from a Scholastic professional development session on vocabulary development. Did you know that children in second grade should know between 2000-5000 words?...
Topics: Reading and Language Arts — Vocabulary Development
Resource Type: Research and Reference
Ages: 4-5
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This short book is a review of research related to early and prompt intervention in mathematics education. The lead chapter urges a shift from playing catch-up to a proactive approach that assists students before they fail.
Topics: Mathematics — Numbers and Operations, Geometry, Data, Mathematical Thinking, Algebra. General — Accommodations for Special Needs
Resource Type: Research and Reference
Ages: 4-5
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In this professional development article, author Bertram C. Bruce discusses at length the implications for and consequences of change, focusing especially on education and change in technology.
Topics: Reading and Language Arts. General — Creating Healthy and Supportive Environments, Technology
Resource Type: Research and Reference
Ages: 3-5
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The authors of this article point out that classroom literacy practices are necessarily grounded in historical and philosophical traditions, and that these traditions provide a lens for distinguishing those practices. Their goal is to examine the assumptions that underlie two pedadogical approaches to literacy--one grounded in liberal humanism, and the other within critical perspectives.
Topics: Reading and Language Arts
Resource Type: Research and Reference
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