Featured new resources for the month of February. Click on the book cover or title to take you to the UBC Library catalogue record for the item.
The reading turn-around with emergent bilinguals: a five-part framework for powerful teaching & learning (grades K-6) / Amanda Claudia Wager, Lane W. Clarke, and Grace Enriquez; with Camille M. Garcia, Gilberto P. Lara, and Rebecca Reynolds.
LC3725 .W34 2019
“This practical resource will help K-6 practitioners grow their literacy practices while also meeting the needs of emergent bilingual learners.
Building on the success of The Reading Turn-Around, this book adapts the five-part framework for reading instruction to the specific needs of emergent bilinguals.
Designed for teachers who have not specialized in bilingual instruction, the authors provide an accessible introduction to differentiating instruction that focuses on utilizing students’ strengths, identities, and cultural backgrounds to foster effective literacy instruction.
Chapters include classroom vignettes, teacher exercises, illustrations of powerful reading plans for the student and teacher, resources for culturally and linguistically diverse children’s literature, and tools to engage with students’ families and communities”
Every child can write, grades 2-5: entry points, bridges, and pathways for striving writers
Melanie Meehan; foreword by M. Colleen Cruz.
LB1576 .M434 2020
“In all classrooms, there are students who have difficulty with writing, either because of developmental challenges or previous experiences with limited instruction.
These are kids who can’t think of ideas or organize thoughts or integrate the many components of written language; and these are the students who keep teachers up at night.
This book focuses on specific approaches to take when working with striving writers. This is not a book about how to teach writing – but a book about how to teach students.
And the ideas here are based firmly in the belief that every child can write when given adequate entry points, bridges, and pathways to success by a knowledgeable, intentional teacher”
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The ultimate read-aloud resource: making every moment intentional and instructional with best friend books
Lester L. Laminack.
LB1573.5 .L36 2019
Award-winning children”s author and acclaimed educator Lester L. Laminack provides guidelines, lessons, and resources for making every read-aloud experience intentional and instructional to engage students in deep thinking about fiction and nonfiction books.
Central to Laminack”s message is his breakthrough thinking about the value and importance of “Best Friend Books”- a small, carefully curated collection that you turn to repeatedly for specific teaching purposes.