Gaining the skills to critically read a wide variety of informational texts is more important than ever for today's K-12 students. This carefully crafted book offers 40 standards-based instructional activities that teachers can immediately put to use in the classroom. Clear rationales and step-by-step instructions are provided for implementing each strategy, together with helpful classroom examples and suggested texts for different grade levels. In a large-size format for easy photocopying, the book includes 44 reproducible worksheets. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials. (Prior edition title: 35 Strategies for Guiding Readers through Informational Texts.) New to This Edition *Now features more strategies, including 16 that are completely new. *Explicit links throughout to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and other current standards. *Two additional strands of activities: Reading Closely and Discussion. *Numerous new and revised reproducible tools--all downloadable.

This practical guide presents inspiring, research-based activities for teaching students in grades K–12 how to read and think critically about informational texts. With five essential types of strategies, seasoned and preservice teachers learn ways to help students select engaging, challenging reading materials; develop their knowledge of history, science, and other content areas; master vocabulary that aids understanding; build essential comprehension skills across the curriculum; and write effectively about texts they have read. Each of the 35 strategies features a helpful reproducible worksheet in a large-size format. The teacher-friendly appendix lists recommended books, magazines, and websites for each grade level.

This hands-on manual explains how to introduce K–12 students to strategies for navigating and comprehending nonfiction texts. Teachers learn easy-to-implement activities that help students find high-interest nonfiction texts; identify and study unfamiliar words and concepts; understand information and think critically; and use writing to evaluate and respond. Sample worksheets help students practice the comprehension strategies of inferring, synthesizing, visualizing, questioning, and summarizing. The book’s utility is enhanced by step-by-step directions and examples.

With major content updates and many more supporting online materials, the seventh edition of the Treatment Resource Manual for Speech-Language Pathology is an accessible and reliable source of basic treatment information and techniques for a wide range of speech and language disorders. This detailed, evidence-based manual includes complete coverage of common disorder characteristics, treatment approaches, reporting techniques, and patient profiles for child and adult clients. Divided into two sections, the first focuses on preparing for effective interventions, and includes the basic principles of speech-language therapies including various reporting systems and techniques. The second part, the bulk of the book, is devoted to treatments for specific communication disorders, including speech sound disorders, pediatric language disorders, autism spectrum disorder, adult aphasia and traumatic brain injury (TBI), motor speech disorders, dysphagia, stuttering, voice disorders, and alaryngeal speech. The last three chapters focus on effective counseling skills, cultural competence and considerations, and contemporary professional issues, including critical thinking, telepractice, simulation technologies, and coding and reimbursement. Treatment Resource Manual for Speech-Language Pathology, Seventh Edition is an ideal resource for academic courses on intervention and clinical methods in graduate speech-language programs and as a more practical supplementary text to the more traditional theoretical books used for undergraduate clinical methods courses. It is also helpful as a study guide for certification and licensing exams, and a handy manual for practicing clinicians in need of a single resource for specific therapy techniques and materials for a wide variety of communication disorders. New to the Seventh Edition * Updates to each disorder-focused chapter on treatment efficacy and evidence-based practice * New focus on a social model of disability (diversity-affirming approach to intervention) * Substantial update on approaches for autism * Expanded discussion of the use of telepractice to conduct intervention * Expanded information on cultural/linguistic diversity and cultural responsiveness/competence within the context of therapeutic intervention * Updated information on incidence/prevalence of aphasia and expanded discussion of treatment efficacy in TBI, spasmodic dysphonia, and goals for treatment of motor speech disorders * Additional Helpful Hints in each disorder chapter * Updates to the Lists of Additional Resources and Recommended Readings * Updated citations and references throughout * Significant expansion of supplementary online materials to facilitate pedagogy and enhance learning Key Features * Chapters focused on treatment of disorders include a concise description of the disorder, case examples, specific suggestions for the selection of therapy targets, and sample therapy activities * Bolded key terms with an end-of-book glossary * A multitude of case examples, reference tables, charts, figures, and reproducible forms * Helpful Hints and Lists of Additional Resources in each chapter * Updated book appendices that include the new ASHA Code of Ethics and Cultural Competency checklists in addition to disorder-specific appendices in many chapters Please note that ancillary content (such as documents, audio, and video, etc.) may not be included as published in the original print version of this book.

"Given the number of well-developed informational sources available to educators and students and the focus of departments of education on learning from these sources, there is so much potential for students to grow as critical consumers of information. Being able to read informational sources closely or watch and listen to sources carefully--across all content areas--creates a path for being able to understand the world better. More than ever before, close reading has become an essential approach with students and the informational sources they are attempting to understand. In addition to addressing instruction with traditional printed texts, I address how to teach for understanding of content in videos and infographics. I have also developed a three-phase plan for learning and a matching template for lesson planning"--

"Do monarch butterflies have a nose?" a kindergartener inquires. "Does it rain on the moon?" a first-grader wonders. "Does a white shark really produce 30 million teeth?"asks a second grader. These incisive, critical quests for additional knowledge about the world are precisely what children do when the Common Core State Standards for informational texts go right in K-2. And with The Everything Guide to Informational Texts, the Common Core will go right in K-2. Authors Kathy Barclay and Laura Stewart have written the book that teachers like you have been pleading for—a resource that delivers the "what I need to know Monday through Friday" to engage kids in a significant amount of informational text reading experiences. No filler, no lofty ideals about college and career readiness, but instead, the information on how to find lesson-worthy texts and create developmentally appropriate instructional plans that truly help young readers comprehend grade-level texts. What you’ll love most: The how-to’s on selecting stellar informational texts High-impact comprehension strategies for nonfiction Suggestions on providing sufficient challenge in guided reading, read alouds, and other practices Model text lessons and lesson plan templates across each grade An annotated list of 449 informational texts for read alouds, guided reading, and independent reading It’s time to bring in to our classrooms all the high-quality informational texts that are available. It’s time to demonstrate to students how to read them, and to allow the authors of these children’s texts to take readers into rich, complex ideas they can handle with our support. If ever there were a book to quell our concern about how Common Core expectations will play out in grades K-2, this is it.

The eighth edition continues to be an invaluable resource for creative strategies and proven techniques to teach social studies. Pamela Farris's popular, reasonably priced book aids classroom teachers in inspiring students to be engaged learners and to build on their prior knowledge. The book is comprehensive and easy to understand—providing instruction sensitive to the needs of all elementary and middle school learners. • Creative concepts for teaching diverse learners • Strategies for incorporating the C3 Framework to enrich K–8 curriculum • Integration of inquiry skills with literacy and language arts skills • Multifaceted, meaningful activities emphasize problem-solving, decision making, and critical thinking • Myriad ideas for incorporating primary sources as well as technology • Annotated lists of children’s literature at the end of each chapter • Multicultural focus throughout the broad coverage of history, geography, civics, and economics • NCSS Standards-Linked Lesson Plans; C3 Framework Plans, and Interdisciplinary/Thematic Units Social studies explores the variety and complexity of human experience. The book emphasizes the value of social studies in preparing students to become valuable community members and to participate respectfully in a diverse society.