The play-based learning and individualized strategies in this practical book build on the wide range of literacy skills present in the kindergarten classroom. This valuable resource explores simple ways to use traditional learning centres to provide children with real and authentic reasons to listen, speak, read, write, and view. Teachers will find a wealth of resources for creating meaningful learning experiences, including: answers to often-asked questions milestones to inform teaching instruction activities and games for both individuals and groups literacy extensions that involve children with quality literature, authentic artifacts, and recordings This highly readable book will support teachers as they move beyond worksheets and nurture students on their journey to lifelong literacy.

The Roadmap to Literacy Renewal of Literacy Edition is a reading, writing, and language arts program for Waldorf schools grades 1-3.

"This book was written specifically for those who work with or raise young children. It is designed to assist adults in understanding and constructing literate environments in the home and at school."--P. 1.

Core Ready is a dynamic series of books providing educators with critical tools for navigating the Common Core Standards effectively, fluidly, and successfully. In the pages of these books, readers see how to take complex concepts related to the standards and turn them into practical, specific, everyday lessons. For more information on the Core Ready program, see Be Core Ready: Powerful, Effective Steps to Implementing and Achieving the Common Core State Standards ISBN: 9780132907460. The Journey to Meaning: Comprehension and Critique is one of the 4 Doors to Core Ready for the standards-serious student and teacher. It is a rich day-to-day, step-by-step guide for helping all students become Core Ready. Using the books in The Core Ready Program, readers see how to turn the standards into meaningful instruction and learning. Enter through this door to in the Core Ready program to bring comprehension, critique and composition of literary texts to the classroom. This book specifically encompasses the strategies and skills all students need to comprehend, critique, and compose literary texts as outlined in the Common Core State Standards. It guides readers through three rich and dynamic lesson sets: Grade 3: Mirrors and Windows: Exploring Characters in Reading and Writing Grade 4: Point of View: Drama and Prose Grade 5: What's the Point?: Theme in Short Text, Poetry, and Son[2] g The lesson sets use high quality texts from diverse genres-drama, prose, short text, poetry, and song-to develop critical thinking skills and help students dive deeply into the text to uncover character complexity, central themes, messages, and meaning. The use of quality literature and teacher modeling inspires them to compose their own writing Core Ready also supports all diverse learners. Special needs students are deeply valued and coached in the Core Ready classroom. The lessons and approach help them to reach and exceed standards. The attention to diverse learners is powerful and profound and will deeply inspire. Click here to take a virtual tour!

This book is the first comprehensive history of how the American people achieved varying degrees of literacy from early colonial times to the modern era. The authors demonstrate that literacy education is not synonymous with schooling. By focusing on people rather than statistics, including literacy among women and minority groups, they explore the literacy agents, methods, and materials used at different times and places throughout the history of the country. The authors define literacy as the degree of interaction with written text that enables individuals to be productive members of their societies. Family literacy is essential to awakening the personal responsibility and motivation necessary for children to develop a love of reading. This effort requires more intensive collaboration procedures between the home and the school, some of which are detailed here. Based largely on primary materials, this historical survey reveals important lessons from the past that can be applied to achieve higher levels of 21st- century literacy.