Teaching Beyond the Timeline: Engaging Students in Thematic History is a practical guide for shifting the the way we teach history in the middle and high school classroom. In order for our students to be truly engaged, we need to help them see the relevance of events in the past, moving from simple rote memorization to requiring students to meaningfully connect historical concepts, people, and events using patterns of comparison, causation, and elements of continuity and change over time. Courses organized around central themes also help to ensure inclusive and relevant curriculum for all our diverse students, a challenge that is difficult to overcome with a traditional, chronological approach.
With The Writing Minilessons Book, Grade 4, you can develop your fourth-grade students' deep knowledge of literacy concepts. You'll get 225 must-have writing minilessons: concise, explicit, whole-group lessons with a purposeful application in building students' writing power.
With The Writing Minilessons Book, Grade 3, engage students in inquiry that leads to the discovery and understanding of a general principle they can apply to their learning. Principles are based on the grade 3 behaviors and understandings in the one-of-a-kind, market-leading Literacy Continuum.
With The Writing Minilessons Book, Grade 2, engage students in inquiry that leads to the discovery and understanding of a general principle they can apply to their learning. Principles are based on the grade 2 behaviors and understandings in the one-of-a-kind, market-leading Literacy Continuum.
With The Writing Minilessons Book, Grade 1, engage students in inquiry that leads to the discovery and understanding of a general principle they can apply to their learning. Principles are based on the grade 1 behaviors and understandings in the one-of-a-kind, market-leading Literacy Continuum.
With The Writing Minilessons Book, Grade K, engage students in inquiry that leads to the discovery and understanding of a general principle they can apply to their learning. Principles are based on the kindergarten behaviors and understandings in the one-of-a-kind, market-leading Literacy Continuum.
The Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ Book Clubs Collection provides an authentic opportunity for children to apply many of the literacy behaviors and understandings that they have learned through other instructional contexts. As they bring together much of their learning in this context, children develop a sense of agency. The experience of exchanging ideas with their peers and co-constructing richer understandings of texts is genuinely rewarding.
As a teacher of literacy, you transform the lives of the children in your classroom. The Reading Minilessons Book offers concise, purposeful lessons with a practical application in a specific area of literacy. Each minilesson engages children in inquiry that leads to the understanding of a general principle. Teachers use many of the interactive read-aloud and independent reading texts as examples from which they generalize the understanding.
Using research as their guide, Jacquey and Gina show you how to integrate science and literacy learning in a way that reflects the authentic ways scientists work and increases students understanding of both.
