Drawing on years of classroom experience, Antoinette Fornshell shares dozens of best-practice ideas for managing time, materials, and space in upper-grade reading and writing classrooms. Readers learn a practical system for planning that starts with setting long-term curriculum goals and leads to creating on-target daily lesson plans. Quick self-assesments and handy planning sheets help teachers evaluate their current practices and make can-do adjustments as needed. For use with Grades 3-5.
Antoinette Cerulli Fornshell is a certified K-12 reading specialist and literacy consultant who leads teacher workshops and study groups throughout New England. She has been a primary teacher, a staff developer with the Reading and Writing Project at Teachers College, Columbia University, and was the recipient of the 1999 Connecticut Association of Reading Research Scholarship.