Turn here for sound instructional strategies from a winning group of master teachers! The authors of these 25 chapters draw on a wide range of experiences to share lessons that have been very successful. They explain the impetus for change or the rationale for a classroom practice, give the context in which it has been taught, detail procedures for teaching, provide examples of student responses, and, where appropriate, how their work was assessed, and conclude with reflection by teachers and/or students.

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Help your students hone the thinking and analytical skills they need for developing good reading and writing. The award-winning educators in this guide tell you how! Here are 22 chapters that carefully blend theory and practice to give you powerful ideas for reading and writing instruction - plus the tools you need to put the ideas to immediate use in your classroom! Presented by editors and chapter authors recognized for their imaginative and highly successful teaching methods, these are some of the best teaching ideas ever assembled in one place. Among the thought-provoking topics you'll find are: Cover Stories: Teaching the Material Book; Gatsby Galas and Elizabethan Extravaganzas: Cultivating Higher Order Learning and the Personal Intelligences; Survivor, The Literary Edition: A Suggestion for Concluding a Literature Class, to name just a few.
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