Douglas Fisher Bücher

It is essential that students learn to examine, review, and evaluate knowledge and ideas through a process of scientific investigation and argumentation. Using these instructional methods and lesson scenarios, teachers of all disciplines will gain the tools needed to offer students a richer, lasting understanding of science, its concepts, and its place in their lives and the global community. Chapter 1: Empowering Students to Learn Scientific PracticesChapter 2: Learning to Talk Like a ScientistChapter 3: Learning to Write Like a ScientistChapter 4: Learning to Read Like a ScientistChapter 5: Empowering Students to Think Like Scientists

Renowned educators Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Diane Lapp saw it was high time classroom teachers had an encyclopedia’s worth of practical, research-based ideas organized into concise modules. You will love the lively tone, the contemporary research findings, and the abundance of activities that help children become skilled readers. This resource goes deep, it goes wide―and yet most brilliantly, it reveals the crucial connections that make for high-impact instruction.

Based on the Cornell note-taking format, this resource incorporates writing into the learning process. Directly linked to the student text, this notebook provides a systematic approach to learning science by encouraging students to engage by summarizing and synthesizing abstract concepts in their own words

In this comprehensive guide, the authors explore the relationship between text, learner, and learning through discussion and rhetorical writing at the elementary, middle, and high school levels.

Explore strategies for integrating the Common Core State Standards for English language arts for grades K-2 in this interdisciplinary resource, which focuses on areas of instruction, curriculum, assessment, and intervention. You'll also learn how to implement the CCSS within the powerful PLC at Work process. Critical chapter-opening questions guide discussion and help you leverage the CCSS to optimize student learning. Chapter 1: Using Collaborative Teams for English Language ArtsChapter 2: Implementing the Common Core State Standards for ReadingChapter 3: Implementing the Common Core State Standards for WritingChapter 4: Implementing the Common Core State Standards for Speaking and Listening and for LanguageChapter 5: Implementing Formative Assessments to Guide Instruction and Intervention

Explore strategies for integrating the Common Core State Standards for English language arts for grades 6-8 in this resource, which focuses on areas of instruction, curriculum, assessment, and intervention. You'll also learn how to implement the CCSS within the powerful PLC at Work™ process. Critical chapter-opening questions guide discussion and help you leverage the CCSS to optimize student learning. Chapter 1: Using Collaborative Teams for English Language ArtsChapter 2: Implementing the Common Core State Standards for ReadingChapter 3: Implementing the Common Core State Standards for WritingChapter 4: Implementing the Common Core State Standards for Speaking and Listening and for LanguageChapter 5: Implementing Formative Assessments to Guide Instruction and Intervention

Students in the 21st century still need to develop traditional reading and writing skills, and they must also learn how to use technology for communicating and collaborating in new ways. This book offers specific teaching strategies for developing student literacy in using search engines efficiently, evaluating information found on websites, avoiding plagiarism, communicating with a wide audience, working collaboratively, and creating multimedia products.