Includes 17 complete writing lessons that include a skill focus, a model lesson and writing sample, and reproducible organizers designed to support individual learning needs at three levels: introductory, intermediate, and challenging. The lessons also provide literature links, student samples, and teaching tips for meeting the needs of all your students.

"40+ reproducible, leveled organizers that help you teach writing to all students and manage their different learning needs easly and effectively"--Cover

100 ready-to-use graphic organizers that help elementary students learn Graphic organizers are a powerful metacognitive teaching and learning tool and this book features 100 graphic organizers for teachers in grades K-5—double the number of any other book on the market. These graphic organizers can be used as before learning, during learning, or after learning activities, and support students' learning in the major content areas: English language arts, science, social studies, and mathematics. Teachers can use each graphic organizer as-is or customize for their own classroom's unique needs. Tips for classroom implementation and information on how the tool supports learning A Difficulty Dial that indicates the complexity of each graphic organizer Two Student Samples demonstrating how the organizer may be used with younger and older students This book gives teachers in grades K-5 a powerful way to help students understand relationships between facts, terms, and ideas.

Twenty complete lessons help students gain independence as writers and improve their skills in fiction and nonfiction writing-- from descriptive paragraphs to persuasive essays. Each strategy mini-lesson includes a set of reproducible pages that guide stu

Over fifty reproducible, leveled literature-response sheets that help you manage students' different learning needs easily and effectively.

58 color reproducible graphic organizers to help your students comprehend any book or piece of literature in a visual way. Our graphic organizers enable readers to see how ideas fit together, and can be used to identify the strengths and weaknesses of your students' thought processes. Our graphic organizers are essential learning tools that will help your students construct meaning and understand what they are reading. They will help you observe your students' thinking process on what you read as a class, as a group, or independently, and can be used for assessment. They include: Story Maps, Plot Development, Character Webs, Predicting Outcomes, Inferencing, Foreshadowing, Characterization, Sequencing Maps, Cause-Effect Timelines, Themes, Story Summaries and Venn Diagrams.

Tap into the power of graphic organizers for classroom success Veteran educator and NCTE trainer Katherine McKnight shows how students can use graphic organizers as an important tool to organize new information. Providing a visual representation that uses symbols to express ideas, concepts, and convey meaning, graphic organizers help to depict relationships between facts, terms, and ideas. The author demonstrates how graphic organizers have proven to be a powerful teaching and learning strategy. Includes 100 graphic organizers-more than any comparable book Included graphic organizers can be used before-, during-, and after-learning activities across the content areas Contains easy-to-follow instructions for teachers on how to use and adapt the book's graphic organizers Offers strategies for teachers to create their own graphic organizers for different grade levels The author Katherine McKnight is a noted literacy educator.

Graphic Organizers for Teachers is a resource designed to help both teachers and students organize their thinking. With 100 designs for a variety of purposes, you'll always find something to fit your needs in the classroom or at home! Included are 100 resources that help with skills like: *Showing Main Idea & Details *Classifying, Grouping, & Sorting *Determining Story Elements *Understanding Related Vocabulary Words *Comparing & Contrasting *Ordering Chronologically *Showing Steps in Sequences and Procedures *Showing Affinities *and many more!

Offers a definition of differentiated instruction, and provides principles and strategies designed to help teachers create learning environments that address the different learning styles, interests, and readiness levels found in a typical mixed-ability classroom.

Describes how to make differentiated instruction work in classrooms.