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resource for teachers and provide information on classroom management,
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Volume Two
2004-2005
Literacy Newsletters |
| Date |
Topic |
Adobe Acrobat File |
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Table of Contents |
Contents |
| 9/7/04 |
Review of Reading Across the Curriculum
Literacy Across the Curriculum |
Issue
1 |
| 9/13/04 |
Metacognition
What we can do to facilitate metacognition |
Issue 2 |
| 9/20/04 |
Attacking a learning task
Accessing prior knowledge |
Issue 3 |
| 9/27/04 |
Characteristics of effective strategies instruction
Anticipation guides |
Issue 4 |
| 10/4/04 |
Making valid inferences |
Issue 5 |
| 10/12/04 |
Vocabulary acquisition
Improving vocabulary skills |
Issue 6 |
| 10/18/04 |
Previewing a selection
Elements found in a short piece of writing
Words to know |
Issue 7 |
| 10/25/04 |
Decoding vocabulary |
Issue 8 |
| 11/1/04 |
Recognizing word parts: roots, prefixes,
suffixes |
Issue 9 |
| 11/8/04 |
Strategies for dealing with new words
List, group and label |
Issue 10 |
| 11/15/04 |
Vocabulary development: feature analysis |
Issue 11 |
| 11/22/04 |
Graphically representing information:
semantic webs |
Issue 12 |
| 11/29/04 |
Vocabulary development: using a word map |
Issue 13 |
| 12/6/04 |
K-W-L Charts: What I Know, What I Want to Know, What
I Learned |
Issue 14 |
| 12/13/04 |
Quick writes
Rubrics |
Issue 15 |
| 12/20/04 |
Making inferences |
Issue 16 |
| 1/3/05 |
Getting started writing
Stem starters |
Issue
17 |
| 1/10/05 |
Making literacy part of every students' experience,
from Meltzer |
Issue
18 |
| 1/17/05 |
Making literacy part of every students' experience,
from Meltzer
Reading, writing, speaking, listening, thinking |
Issue
19 |
| 1/24/05 |
Teaching learning strategies, from Meltzer |
Issue
20 |
| 1/31/05 |
Vocabulary tests, from Test Smart
Teaching strategies for editing and revising |
Issue
21 |
| 2/7/05 |
Teaching strategies for editing and revising |
Issue
22 |
| 2/14/05 |
Writing strategies for persuasive writing |
Issue
23 |
| 2/29/05 |
Cues and questions, from Marzano |
Issue
24 |
| 3/7/05 |
Cues and questions, from Marzano
Eliciting inferences |
Issue
25 |
| 3/14/05 |
Analytical questions, from Marzano
Reading an essay of analysis
Judging an essay of analysis |
Issue
26 |
| 3/21/05 |
Summarizing, from Marzano
Summary frames
Topic, restriction, illustration frame |
Issue
27 |
| 3/28/05 |
Summarizing, from Marzano
Definition frame
Problem/solution frame |
Issue
28 |
| 4/4/05 |
Reciprocal teaching |
Issue
29 |
| 4/11/05 |
Note-taking, from Marzano
Teacher-prepared notes |
Issue
30 |
| 4/25/05 |
Providing recognition
Effective praise
Ineffective praise |
Issue
31 |
| 5/2/05 |
Personalizing recognition
Concrete symbols of recognition |
Issue
32 |
| 5/9/05 |
Homework and practice, from Marzano |
Issue
33 |
| 5/16/05 |
Assignment homework, from Marzano |
Issue
34 |
| 5/23/05 |
Nonlinguistic representations
Graphic organizers |
Issue
35 |
| 5/31/05 |
Graphic organizers, from Marzano
Time sequence, cause/effect, episode
Transition words |
Issue
36 |
| 6/6/05 |
Graphic organizers, from Marzano
Generalization principles, concept pattern
Signal words |
Issue
37 |
| 6/13/05 |
It says ... I say, from Beers |
Issue
38 |