Core Ready Lesson Sets for Grades K-2: A Staircase to Standards Success for English Language Arts, The Journey to Meaning: Comprehension and Critique - Softcover

Allyn, Pam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 013290747X ISBN 13: 9780132907477

Publisher: Pearson, 2013

Synopsis

This book is part of Pam Allyn’s highly popular Core Ready series, a dynamic series of books that gives educators critical tools for navigating the Common Core Standards effectively, fluidly, and successfully. Using the information presented in the series, educators see how to take complex concepts related to the standards and turn them into practical, specific, everyday lessons. The books address the needs of all learners, including ELL and special needs diverse learners, and cover the uses of technology and new media.

 

The Journey to Meaning: Comprehension and Critique helps cultivate students who think deeply about the meaning of what they read and use skills and strategies with purpose and flexibility. The practical lesson sets included let students search text and illustrations for key ideas and details, ask and answer questions, and make connections and draw inferences using evidence from their reading. Students get the opportunity to explore the elements of fiction and cite evidence to support their thinking about character, setting, plot and point of view.

 

With this book as a guide student see how to:

• Use quality literature as their inspiration to create their own fiction and personal narrative stories in a variety of literary genres.
• Develop character, setting, and events, adding details and visuals to strengthen meaning and imagery.
• Write to convey their own point of view and that of imaginary characters in their stories.
• Share their writing and thinking with others orally and/or using appropriate tools and technologies.

Visit http://pdtoolkit.pearson.com to purchase access to the PDToolkit for Pam Allyn's Core Ready Series. The PDToolkit access does not come with the print book.

 

PDToolkit for Pam Allyn's Core Ready Series is a supplemental online subscription-based resource that provides the tools that educators need to implement the Common Core Standards effectively, fluidly, and successfully. The PDToolkit, together with the texts, provides the tools you need to ensure a standards-aligned year of joyful, effective, research-based literacy curriculum.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

A part of Pam Allyn’s highly popular Core Ready series, Journey to Meaning: Comprehension and Critique helps cultivate students who think deeply about the meaning of what they read and choose and use skills and strategies with purpose and flexibility. The practical lesson sets included let students search text and illustrations for key ideas and details, ask and answer questions, and make connections and draw inferences using evidence from their reading. Students get the opportunity to explore the elements of fiction and cite evidence to support their thinking about character, setting, plot and point of view.

 

With this book as a guide student see how to:

 

• Use quality literature as their inspiration to create their own fiction and personal narrative stories in a variety of literary genres.
• Develop character, setting, and events, adding details and visuals to strengthen meaning and imagery.
• Write to convey their own point of view and that of imaginary characters in their stories.
• Share their writing and thinking with others orally and/or using appropriate tools and technologies.

 

About the Series:

 

Pam Allyn’s widely popular Core Ready Program gives educators a complete, dynamic, hands-on resource for navigating the Common Core State Standards effectively, fluidly, and successfully. Using the information presented in the series, educators see how to take complex concepts related to the standards and turn them into practical, specific, everyday lessons. The books address the needs of all learners, including ELL and special needs diverse learners, and cover the uses of technology and new media. Included in Core Ready Lesson Sets for Grades K-2: A Staircase to Standards Success for English Language Arts are:

 

The Journey to Meaning: Comprehension and Critique

 

The Shape of Story : Yesterday and Today

 

The Road to Knowledge : Information and Research

 

The Power to Persuade: Opinion and Argument

 

About the Author:

Pam Allyn is an authority in the field of literacy education and an expert in home and school literacy connections. As a renowned motivational speaker, expert consultant, author, teacher, and humanitarian for children, she is transforming the way we think about literacy as a tool for communication and knowledge building. She is the executive director of LitLife, a national literacy development organization providing research-based professional development for K-12 educators. She founded and leads LitWorld, a groundbreaking global literacy initiative reaching children across the United States and in over 60 countries. Her methods for helping all students achieve as literacy learners, including the most diverse learners, has brought her acclaim both in the United States and internationally. 

 

Pam is the author of 11 books for educators and parents including the award-winning What To Read When: The Books and Stories To Read With Your Child-And All The Best Times To Read Them (Penguin Avery), Pam Allyn's Best Books for Boys (Scholastic) and Your Child’s Writing Life: How to Inspire Confidence, Creativity, and Skill at Every Age (Penguin Avery). Her work has been featured on Good Morning America, The Today Show, Oprah Radio, the Huffington Post, the New York Times and across the blogosphere.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 013290747X
• ISBN 13: 9780132907477
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320