Timothy V. Rasinski

Maureen McLaughlin

Authors McLaughlin and Rasinski present students, academics, and education professionals working in a wide variety of contexts with a comprehensive resource for the teaching of reading to struggling students in a variety of educational settings. The authors have organized the main body of their text in ten chapters devoted to motivation and engagement, the struggling reader, the text, and the context, phonics and decoding, and a wide variety of other related subjects.

Engaging and Teaching in Grades 3-8

Struggling Readers

An indispensable guide for all who teach in grades six through eight, as well as curriculum directors, reading specialists, literacy coaches, and school administrators, Inside the Common Core Classroom: Practical ELA Strategies for Grades 6-8 is the middle-grade volume of Pearson's definitive new series on the Common Core State Standards. It provides essential information about the Common Core initiative, insights into the standards, practical classroom strategies, and vignettes from Common Core-aligned classrooms. Real-life instruction examples are included in every chapter, along with a variety of teaching strategies and applications. An interdisciplinary unit on climate change pulls the book together with discipline-specific teaching suggestions, sample lesson plans, an assessment and evaluation plan, a culminating activity, and a rich collection of additional resources.

Practical ELA Strategies for Grades 6-8

Inside the Common Core Classroom

Glenn L. DeVoogd

Reading from a critical stance is a natural part of comprehension. It involves making connections between the text and the world, questioning the author and the text's purpose, and understanding how we are influenced by the text. In this clear, easy-to-use resource, the authors present a sound instructional framework that is based on the latest theory and research and brought to life through a variety of theme-based classroom lessons for the primary, intermediate, and middle school grades. For use with Grades 1-8.

Maureen McLaughlin

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