The Book Club
CRA Parent Intervention Packet
The purpose of this publication is to provide teachers with concrete one-on-one activities that parents can do with their children. This includes letter formation, letter identification, concepts about print, phonemic awareness, phonics, and high frequency words. It was created with the notion that when a teacher is conferencing with a parent of a child who has been identified as at risk and could be facing retention that an activity or page could be given to the parent based upon the child's area of risk.
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A Taste of Literacy
This cookbook showcases California children's book authors and illustrators. Each serves up a variety of information about reading, writing, and cooking by sharing a favorite recipe and memory. A list of books and contact information is included.
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Sound Practices in Teaching Reading
Sound Practices in Teaching Reading: The National Reading Panel Recommendations Come Alive in the Classroom. This book is a compilation of articles previously published in the California Reader that addresses issues raised in the National Panel Report (NPR). Articles are organized into categories identified by the NRP.
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What Good Teachers Do to Help Make Literacy Happen
What Good Teachers do to Help Make Literacy Happen is a companion to the "What Good Readers Do: From A to Z Poster." It contains a rationale for each of the 26 student behaviors presented: a classroom vignette, one primary and one secondary, for each behavior; and a variety of effective teaching strategies to teach or reinforce the behavior.
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What Good Writers Do From A-Z:
A Practical Handbook of Strategies for Success
What Good Writers Do From A-Z: A Practical Handbook of Strategies for Success is organized around the letters of the alphabet and designed to assist teachers in the complexity of teaching writing. Included with each suggested concept, strategy, activity, or approach is a rationale or description of that element, followed by classroom application vignettes at three different grade spans. Additional resources are identified for further exploration.
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Building Literacy: Making Every Child a Reader
Building Literacy: Making Every Child a Reader is organized around five strands: oral language, listening and speaking; awareness of sound, symbol, and structure; skills integration; reading comprehension strategies; and writing, vocabulary and spelling. Each component is defined with specific implementation ideas/strategies for each grade level. Connections between language arts and other content areas are also made. A vignette for both a primary and intermediate classroom is included to demonstrate how each strategy can be implemented. A glossary of terms/formats and an extensive bibliography is also included.
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Supporting Intermediate and Secondary Readers
Supporting Intermediate and Secondary Readers: Selected Interactive Approaches for Grades 4-12, highlights 26 interactive strategies organized around the 26 letters of the alphabet to engage students in reading both literature and content area textbooks. It is an invaluable resource for activities that introduce, expand, extend, and enrich upper-grade students' involvement with content area text materials and literature studies.
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