The big book of literacy tasks, grades K-8 : 75 balanced literacy activities students do (not you!) /
A compendium of reading and writing tasks that virtually all teachers have students do, with the value-add of expert scaffolding tips that ensure students are doing the work, not the teacher. Based on research on coherence by Elmore and others at Harvard. Perfect for balanced literary classrooms whe...
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Thousand Oaks, California :
Corwin Literacy,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- A new spin on who, what, why, when and where
- Making predictions to help comprehension
- Journal writing after reading
- Make a connection to the world when reading a text independently
- Quoting an important idea in a nonfiction text
- Name character motives and actions
- Name rising plot
- Name plot resolution
- Tell the text
- Dig deeper into the text
- Guided comprehension talks
- Elaborate and clarify meaning
- Setting routines for independent reading
- Fixing up when attention wanders
- Communicating your heads-up ball approach
- Answering a text-dependent question
- Tell why (you think, believe, remember, know) with why messages
- Make a bold statement about a text
- Extend thinking when discussing a text
- One-liners for nonfiction texts
- Crystal ball predictions
- Yesterday's news
- Annotate text
- Sentence strip statements
- Write questions about reading
- Super cool three steps to describe an experience
- Getting kids to write: wonderfully concentrating minds generating ideas
- Sketch to write
- Getting help from another writer: write dialogue in narratives and quotes in reports
- Getting help from another writer: write a hook
- The right amount of details, the right amount of clarity
- Thinking small to write well
- Writing a jot about what was read
- Works too long, and never gets any writing done
- Dialogue journals
- Analyze a text for author's purpose with a text that is a little too hard for students to read on their own
- Create a structured outline of a text
- Collecting research and organizing research notes for writing
- Plot summary snapshots
- Writing information in a new format
- Stay on point in writing
- Productive use of the author's chair
- Write a short research report
- Write an all about text
- Your students have voice?writing an opinion text
- Arguing the solution to a problematic situation
- Writing the recipe for success: how-to texts
- Writing explanations, be like an encyclopedia
- Inquiry for smart minds
- Responding to literature with some kick to it
- Identify theme in a complex text
- Posing questions for easier inquiry
- Writing a fable or myth
- Writing a fairy tale
- Justifying an answer with a claim and evidence
- Use known concepts to help others learn new information
- Connect the dots, or ideas between texts
- Identifying real facts from made-up facts?fallacious reasoning
- Brainstorming multiple valid answers/responses
- Concept mapping between big ideas
- Make me ponder?questions that get the thinking juices flowing
- Writing compare and contrast response to literature
- Peer to peer analysis and response
- Critique a complex or functional text
- Visible and visual:
- Use known concepts & vocabulary to understand a text
- Summarize a text that is a little too hard for students to read on their own
- Student think-alouds
- Separate central ideas from big ideas
- Writing in different genres or multimedia to engage and persuade
- Creative debate
- I am a reader
- I am a writer
- Look up
- Good-bye, perfect teacher
- Teacher and learner.