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A comprehensive presentation on Balanced Literacy - The Reading Components. This powerpoint contains 60 colorful and informative slides. It is a must if you provide Professional Development on Literacy or if you are a literacy coach and you need to be clear with teachers about any component of good literacy instruction. Teachers who need a solid introduction to Balanced Literacy will find this product especially useful. Contact me at APJAS for other presentations.

This is a 9-day bundle of mini-lessons designed to have students gain mastery of CCSS Reading Literature Standards, as well as prepare students for PARCC-like questions and the Narrative Writing Task. These particular lessons are based on the HMH version of the text in the Journeys Series, but they can (and should) be adapted to the author’s original text which is much richer. I have designed these lessons so they can be easily replicated with different texts since I believe students need the

This is a comprehensive writing unit that focuses on elaboration. The objective of this unit is to raise the level of writing in fourth graders by increasing fluency through elaboration - a key element of good writing. It also prepares writers for on-demand pieces. If you are interested in more writing units contact APJAS.

A comprehensive presentation on Balanced Literacy - The Writing Components. This powerpoint contains 43 colorful and informative slides. It is a must if you provide Professional Development on Literacy or if you are a literacy coach and you need to be clear with teachers about any component of good literacy instruction. Teachers who need a solid introduction to Balanced Literacy Writing will find this product especially useful. Contact me at APJAS for other presentations.

Reading Intervention Small Group Instruction Lesson Plan For English Learners or Children Who Are Stagnating This is an intervention plan for students such as English Learners and struggling readers who have difficulty understanding literal text, as they are still acquiring language, phonics, or writing skills. The plan includes many elements of the text and the premise for this lesson structure is that, if a child is exposed to all these elements every time a teacher works with a text with the

Early Numeracy Chart - for teaching Place Value! This innovative product has turned a traditional teacher staple into a mathematical tool that is aligned to the Common Core and other state standards. It is a more conceptually logical representation of the relationship between numbers and place value. It helps students experience more concretely how the value of a number increases as the Early Numeracy Chart goes up. This concept is intuitively logical, similar to other examples, such as a glass

This is a set of Read Aloud and Writing Response lesson plans that address Literature Common Core Anchor Standards 1 and 3. These lessons can be adapted to Grades 3 and 4. These lessons have also been used with Grade 4 Special Education students, with some pacing and presentation adaptations. I used only the chapters in Sandra Cisneros's beautifully written House on Mango Street that I thought were accessible and appropriate to third and fourth graders I work with. These lessons also serve as a

This template allows you to plan for effective Guided Reading instruction for Transitional and Fluent Readers that is strategy-based. It helps you focus your observation of readers through the lenses of Comprehension, Decoding, and Fluency.

This template allows you to plan for effective Guided Reading instruction for Early Readers (Levels 4-12) that is strategy-based. It helps you focus your observation of readers through the lenses of Comprehension, Decoding, and Fluency.

This template helps you plan for effective Guided Reading instruction for Emergent Readers that is strategy-based. It helps you focus your observation of readers through the lenses of Comprehension, Decoding, and Fluency.