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.

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.

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

Presents the use of graphic organizers to teach reading, writing, math and more. Includes reproducibles.

20 graphic organizers with mini-lessons to help students brainstorm, organize ideas, draft, revise, and edit.

Provides graphic organizers to help students get the most out of independent reading.

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

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.

Easy-to-make 3-D graphic organizers help students focus their thinking, retain key information, and show off what they've learned! Includes interactive (writeable) versions of each graphic organizer!

This book has engaging lessons, graphic organizers, and hand-on activities that help students respond to what they read and deepen comprehension.