Description

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Accelerate learning gains using differentiated instruction! This professional teaching resource supports educators with easy-to-use lessons that strengthen students’ reading skills. This book provides teachers with 36 lessons that support differentiated instruction in grades 3, 4, and 5. The lessons focus on four advanced reading skills: visualize, infer, draw conclusions, and compare/contrast. Written by literacy experts and authors Laura Robb, Tim Rasinski, and David Harrison, this book offer useful lessons and reading strategies that meet students’ diverse reading needs. The first part of this resource provides helpful information that supports the ready-to-implement lessons in the second part. These lessons create opportunities for individual and collective growth by reading, discussing, and writing about poems and texts. Build key literacy skills such as comprehension, critical thinking, vocabulary building, and word study with this teacher resource!

About the Author

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Laura Robb, M.S.Ed., is an author, teacher, coach, and speaker, with more than 40 years of teaching and coaching in grades 4-8. She coaches teachers and works in classrooms three to four months a year. For long?term professional study projects, Robb works with those students who need the most support from teachers. A keynote and featured speaker at conferences, she leads workshops all over the United States and in Canada. Robb has written more than 25 books on literacy. She also writes articles for educational journals, posts on a variety of blogs, and publishes four newsletters a year for teachers on her website. Robb's goal is to reach all learners by supporting teachers.

David Harrison, Litt. D, is a nationally acclaimed author and poet. He has written more than seventy-five books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for young readers and has been anthologized in countless others. His work has been translated into twelve languages and has been aired on television, radio, podcast, and video stream. David has authored many professional and classroom resources for teachers, including Partner Poems for Building Fluency: 40 Engaging Poems for Two Voices with Motivating Activities That Help Students Improve Their Fluency and Comprehension with Timothy Rasinski and Gay Fawcett. He has even created a video series, Let's Write This Week with David Harrison, that brings writing tips into the elementary classroom and offers graduate college credit for teachers. David holds degrees from Drury University and Emory University and holds honorary doctorates of letters from Missouri State University and Drury University where he is the current poet laureate. David Harrison Elementary School is named in his honor.

Praise For…

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“Unreservedly recommended.”
— Library Bookwatch, Midwest Book Review

"This book was a perfect fit for teachers in grades three to five, but could also be used in grades six to eight to boost the reading skill of students reading two or more years below their grade level because no grade level is printed on the reproducible lessons. This book became my annual gift to ELA teachers to read, study, and discuss with colleagues and then to collaborate as they planned using the differentiated lessons with students!"

— Evan Robb, principal