Clearing the Path for Developing Learners

All learning is based on the mastery of essential literary skills, and in this impactful title from author and reading specialist Peg Grafwallner, educators will discover tools they need to embed literacy into all subjects. Using this book’s skill-building strategies and reproducibles, educators can effectively teach those literacy skills to support developing students as they learn to read, write, and think critically.

Through this title, educators will discover how to:

• Expand their teaching methods to include literacy skills
• Introduce literacy into daily lesson planning
• Embed reading comprehension into any subject area
• Create a positive classroom culture through relevant and relatable vocabulary strategies
• Scaffold instruction using literacy strategies to boost subject-area comprehension

Contents:
Introduction
Part I: Your Roadmap to Teaching Essential Skills
Chapter 1: Prioritize Essential Skills in Your Classroom
Chapter 2: Foster a Sustainable Classroom Culture
Chapter 3: Unpack Academic Standards to Identify Essential Skills
Chapter 4: Harness Brain-Based Teaching Techniques
Part II: Your Essential Skills Starter Kit
Chapter 5: Locate the Main Idea and Identify Supporting Details
Chapter 6: Compose a Summary
Chapter 7: Interpret and Apply Academic Vocabulary
Chapter 8: Identify and Apply Inference
Chapter 9: Identify and Understand Cause–Effect Relationships
Chapter 10: Identify and Understand Relationships Using Compare–Contrast
Chapter 11: Delineate and Evaluate Arguments
Epilogue
References and Resources
Index