That's a Great Answer!
Teaching Literature Response to K-3, ELL, and Struggling Readers
Description:... How can teachers get great answers to open-ended comprehension questions from the students who need help the most?K-3, ELL, and struggling older students. Nancy Boyles supplies the solution. She begins with the foundations of a great answer'great objectives, books, instruction, and discussions'and adds valuable guidance on assessment. Her ready-to-go student scaffolds then break down the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) objectives into 40 specific, measurable, open-ended comprehension questions that can be correlated with the literacy objectives of any state. Each question includes: teaching tips; a bibliography of fiction/nonfiction picture books aligned with the question; a worksheet with the reading and writing strategy; and an answer frame scaffold for initial response practice. Included CD has scaffolds and an extensive master bibliography organized alphabetically that matches key fiction/nonfiction literature models with appropriate comprehension questions.
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