Practical Strategies for Meeting the Rigorous Common Core State Standards for Reading (Grades K-2): Teacher Resource Handbook, Professional ... Development Series: Literacy K-5)

Are you a K-2 educator who wants to provide the most effective, high quality instruction? Do you want to engage your students to increase motivation? Do you want ideas and practical strategies to use right away? This teacher resource handbook will give you the tools you need to successfully teach the Common Core ELA State Standards! This handbook is designed to accompany an on-site one-day professional development workshop, but may also be used as a standalone. Teachers across the United States have found this workshop handbook to be an effective resource to their instructional practice.

DR. DENISE GUDWIN is an acclaimed teacher and outstanding nationally recognized presenter and school-site consultant in the areas of literacy, learning disabilities, mentoring/coaching, differentiated instruction, inclusive /co-teaching practices, and Response to Intervention. Experienced as a classroom teacher, curriculum specialist, staff developer, central office administrator, and university instructor, Denise brings 35 years of experience working with students who have reading difficulties. Thirty of those years include twenty years in the classroom, and ten years in the central office as an instructional supervisor for Programs for Learning Disabilities, and as an executive director for Professional Development. Denise is co-author of Mentoring and Coaching: A Lifeline for Teachers in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Classroom (2010, Corwin Press); Phonological Awareness and Early Literacy Assessment (Wright Group); Professional Development: Assisting Urban Schools in Making Annual Yearly Progress, in the Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research (Volume 3, September 2007); and A Qualitative Study of New/Early Career Special Education Teacher Retention in a Multicultural Urban Setting, (Spring 2008) Florida Educational Leadership Journal. Denise is also author of numerous K-6 teacher handbooks on the topics of: Common Core ELA for Struggling Readers, Accelerating the Reading Achievement of Students with Learning Disabilities, Response to Intervention, Response to Intervention/Reading Assessment, and Co-Teaching. Additionally, during the past fifteen years, her focus has also included working with teachers, schools, and districts to provide the most successful environment for high quality teaching experiences. If you have the opportunity to participate in one of Denise's seminars, you will be inspired and touched by her enthusiasm, along with practical and highly effective strategies and a renewed sense of professional growth... insights and practical strategies you'll be able to use immediately. She is currently working on various writing and teacher seminar projects, teaching university courses, and volunteering on state and local reading association boards and with a state literacy program for children. Her personal interests revolve around family, friends, the arts, yoga, nutrition, and hiking.