Student Diversity : Teaching Strategies to Meet the Learning Needs of All Students in K-10 Classrooms.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Improving Learning for All -- Towards a Model of Collaboration -- Building Vibrant Learning Environments -- Strategies Vital to Student Learning -- 1. The Classroom as a Learning Community -- The Centrality of the Classroom Teacher -- The Rationale for Inclusion -- The Non-categorical Model -- First Week Considerations -- Day 1: A People Search -- Days 2 and 3: A Strategic Sequence -- Week 1 in Review -- 2. Standard Reading Assessment -- Assessment to Promote Student Achievement -- Helping Students Assess Their Developing Skills -- The Assessment Process -- Using the Information -- 3. Getting Strategic with Strategies -- Learning about Our Students as Learners -- Designing Lessons -- Starting with Information Text -- Teaching Reading in the Early Years -- Formative Assessment in Math -- A Winning Team -- 4. Writers Workshop: The Foundation -- Guiding Principles -- Writers Workshop as a Foundation in Primary Classrooms -- Introducing Writers Workshop to Primary Students -- Getting Intermediate, Middle, and Secondary Students Started -- Editing and Building a Skill Focus -- Discussing, Conferencing, and Drafting -- The Group Share -- Mini-lesson: Free Verse Poetry -- Mini-lesson: Letting Pictures Tell the Story -- Mini-lesson: Power Paragraphs for Information Writing -- From Writers Workshop to Inquiry -- Critical Literacy in Writers Workshop -- A Powerful Approach -- 5. Introducing Narrative Writing -- Working Together: Writing in Kindergarten -- A Team Collaboration: Grades 6 and 7 -- Week 1: Pre-writing -- Week 2: Establishing Writing Criteria -- Week 3: Working as a Group -- Week 4: Using the Criteria -- Week 5: Revising -- Week 6: Choosing Topics -- Week 7: Using Form Effectively -- Week 8: Establishing Criteria for Evaluation -- Thinking Back, Looking Ahead.

6. The Class Novel -- Reconceptualizing the Class Novel -- Connecting: Building Background Knowledge -- Processing: Building Meaning -- Processing: Reading with Understanding -- Transforming and Personalizing: Demonstrating Understanding -- 7. Literature Circles: The Basics, the Big Ideas, and Beyond -- Conditions That Support Comprehension -- 1. Reading Volume -- 2. High-Success Reading Opportunities -- 3. Engaging in Literate Conversations -- 4. Useful, Explicit Strategy Instruction -- Literature Circles within a Term -- Extending Literature Circles into Personal Inquiry -- Extending Literature Circles into Dramatic Demonstrations -- Reflecting on Literature Circles -- 8. Poetry: Three Invitations -- 1. Thoughtful Discussion -- 2. Three-Dimensional Poetry -- 3. Architectural Tours -- 9. An Integrated Unit: Social Studies and English Language Arts -- Curriculum Content: Children's Rights -- Beginning the Unit -- Gradual Release of Responsibility: A Weekly Pattern -- Sample Assignments -- Cross-Curricular Team Benefits -- 10. Science: Multiple Intelligences at Work -- Integrating the Multiple Intelligences for Learning -- Evaluation: Multiple Representations of Understanding -- Thinking Like a Scientist -- 11. Math: Reaching All Learners in the Classroom -- Reconsidering Tasks and Lesson Structure -- Introducing Division -- The Making of Mathematicians -- Conclusion: Making a Difference for All -- Bibliography -- Recommended Children's Books -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.

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