Toolkit for Teachers of Literacy

Summary

The TOOL for LITERACY you were waiting for! Designed to help you scaffold your studentsrs" reading and writing, Toolkit for Teachers of Literacy will be the resource yours"ll turn to for teaching and assessing literacy! Diane Nettles presents a hands-on collection of assessment tools and teaching strategies that classroom teachers will love using! Broken down into five parts for quick reference and ease of use, Toolkit for Teachers of Literacy takes the guesswork out of teaching literacy. Take a look insidehellip; loz; Section I, Teaching Tools for Reading Instruction, a collection of strategies and tools for teaching, addresses early literacy assessments and ideas, strategies for learning story elements, nonfiction text organizers, comprehension strategies, and classroom management ideas. loz; Section II, Rubrics for Analyzing Writing, features a set of writing rubrics correlated to benchmarks for grades one through eight and based on Vicki Spandelrs"s instructional "six traits model" of teaching writing. loz; Section III, Reading Assessments for the Classroom Teacher, is a complete set of classroom reading assessments such as forms, charts, and complete instructions for administering all of the assessments, including the results from a running record notation. loz; Section IV, Using Standards-Based Literacy Portfolios, features literacy portfolios organized around the most important components of reading recommended by the National Reading Panel, and outlined in No Child Left Behind: phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency. loz; Section V, Phonics Mini-Lessons: Understanding the Nature of Words, serves as a "refresher course in phonics" for pre-service and classroom teachers, with a set of 14 mini-lessons. Each lesson describes a phonetic element, using words pulled from childrenrs"s books. Blackline Masters of many of the figures and forms described in the book are available online at www.ablongman.com/nettles1e and can be downloaded for immediate use in the classroom. Meet the Author: Diane Nettles is a professor at California University of Pennsylvania, teaching literacy courses in the Elementary Education/Early Childhood department. She has taught in various elementary grades, conducted numerous workshops for teachers, and has served as a local consultant on all facets of literacy instruction, classroom assessments, and childrenrs"s literature. Additionally, Dr. Nettles is involved in several university/school collaborative projects, and volunteers her time working with children and teachers in local elementary classrooms. Also available by Diane Nettles: Comprehensive Literacy Instruction in Todayrs"s Diverse Classrooms: The Whole, the Parts, and the Heart, Allyn & Bacon How to Develop a Professional Portfolio: A Manual for Teachers, Fourth Edition (with Campbell, Cignetti, Melenyzer and Wyman), Allyn & B

Author Biography

Diane Nettles is a professor at California University of Pennsylvania, teaching literacy courses in the Elementary Education/Early Childhood department

Blackline Masters Available at www.ablongman.com/nettles	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Teaching Tools for Reading Instruction	p. 1
Early Literacy Tools	p. 1
Alphabet Recognition Checklist	p. 1
Reading Awareness Checklist for Young Children	p. 3
Environmental Print	p. 5
Logo Scrapbooks	p. 5
Photograph Albums	p. 5
Classroom Labels in Sentences	p. 5
Charts and Classroom Directions	p. 5
Strategies for Facilitating Work with Story Elements	p. 6
Story Maps	p. 6
Sequencing Events in a Story	p. 7
Character Analysis	p. 8
Plot Analysis	p. 9
Setting Analysis	p. 10
Theme Analysis	p. 12
Strategies for Facilitating Work with Nonfiction Text	p. 13
Descriptive Nonfiction Text Structure	p. 13
Sequential Nonfiction Text Structure	p. 15
Cause/Effect Nonfiction Text Structure	p. 16
Compare/Contrast Relationships in Nonfiction Text	p. 18
Problem/Solution Nonfiction Text Structure	p. 19
Comprehension Strategies	p. 20
Critical Reading with Websites	p. 20
Opinion Statements	p. 23
Predicting	p. 24
Questions for Literature Response	p. 25
Fiction	p. 25
Nonfiction	p. 25
Visualization	p. 26
Classroom Management Techniques	p. 27
Class Meetings	p. 28
Managing Procedures	p. 29
Five Checkers	p. 29
The Red Line	p. 29
Deadlines	p. 29
Class Constitution	p. 29
Transition Cues	p. 29
Wall Cues	p. 000
Hand Signals	p. 30
Four Corners and Bookmarks	p. 30
Independent Reading Management	p. 31
Guided Reading Management	p. 32
Rubrics for Analyzing Writing	p. 35
First Grade	p. 37
Story Writing	p. 37
Nonfiction Writing	p. 38
Summary Page	p. 40
Second Grade	p. 41
Story Writing	p. 41
Nonfiction Writing	p. 42
Summary Page	p. 45
Third Grade	p. 46
Story Writing	p. 46
Nonfiction Writing	p. 48
Summary Page	p. 51
Fourth Grade	p. 52
Story Writing	p. 52
Nonfiction Writing	p. 54
Summary Page	p. 57
Fifth Grade	p. 58
Story Writing	p. 58
Nonfiction Writing	p. 60
Summary Page	p. 64
Middle School	p. 65
Story Writing	p. 65
Nonfiction Writing	p. 68
Summary Page	p. 72
Reading Assessments for the Classroom Teacher	p. 73
Classroom Reading Mini-Assessments	p. 75
Word Recognition Rate	p. 75
Reader-Text Match	p. 76
Fluency Analysis: Words Per Minute	p. 78
Fluency Analysis: Repetition Frequency	p. 79
Self-Regulation	p. 80
Semantically Similar Miscues	p. 81
Visually Similar Miscues	p. 82
Retelling Analysis	p. 83
Classroom Reading Assessments: The Complete Analysis	p. 85
Using Standards-Based Literacy Portfolios	p. 93
How is a Standards-Based Literacy Portfolio Organized?	p. 94
What Goes into the Standards-Based Portfolio?	p. 94
Documenting Literacy Abilities	p. 95
Phonics	p. 95
Letter/Sound Relationships and Blending	p. 95
El Paso Phonics Survey	p. 95
Classroom Decoding Check	p. 95
Using Known Words to Decode Unknown Words	p. 96
Making Words Strategy	p. 96
Word Families Book	p. 96
Decoding Unknown Words Independently	p. 96
Visually Similar Miscues Analysis	p. 96
The Names Test	p. 96
My List of Hard Words	p. 97
Vocabulary	p. 98
Defining Words	p. 98
Using Words Appropriately	p. 98
Comprehension	p. 100
Making Predictions	p. 101
Making Inferences	p. 102
Visualizing	p. 106
Metacognition	p. 106
Running Records	p. 106
Think Alouds	p. 106
Metacognition Strategy Index	p. 108
Survey of Fix-up Strategies	p. 108
Collection of Passages	p. 109
Self-Questioning	p. 109
Summarizing	p. 110
Retelling	p. 111
Fluency	p. 111
Charts for Accuracy and Speed	p. 113
Oral Reading Collections	p. 113
Tape, Check, Chart	p. 114
Personal Reading	p. 116
Writing	p. 116
Phonics Mini-Lessons: Understanding the Nature of Words	p. 121
Consonants	p. 123
Vowels	p. 127
Y and W as Vowels	p. 131
R-Controlled Vowels	p. 133
Vowel Digraphs	p. 135
Vowel Diphthongs	p. 137
Schwa	p. 138
Hard and Soft C and G	p. 139
The CVC or Closed Syllable Pattern	p. 141
The CVCe Pattern	p. 143
The CVVC Pattern	p. 145
The CV or Open Syllable Pattern	p. 147
Syllabication Patterns	p. 149
Words with Affixes	p. 151
Answer Key to Self-Quizzes	p. 156
References	p. 159
Children's Literature References	p. 162
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