Core Ready Lesson Sets for Grades K-2: A Staircase to Standards Success for English Language Arts, The Road to Knowledge: Information and Research - Softcover

Allyn, Pam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0132907453 ISBN 13: 9780132907453

Publisher: Pearson, 2014

Synopsis

This book is a one-stop resource for understanding how to turn the Common Core State Standards into meaningful instruction and learning. Readers get rich, day-to-day, step-by-step guidance for implementing the Common Core State Standards and ensuring that all K-2 students are core ready. The Road to Knowledge focuses on helping students navigate informational texts and become able to cite evidence by reading and listening carefully to nonfiction topics and discovering important and interesting facts and details.

 

KEY TOPICS:

Grade K–Connecting the Dots: Topics and Details in Informational Text

Grade 1–Navigating Non-Fiction

Grade 2–What’s The Big Idea: Using Text Features to Locate Key Information

 

MARKET: Teachers, administrative leaders, literacy coaches, ELL specialists, special educators, media specialists, reading teachers, and content area teachers, plus parents and caregivers

About this title

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.

From the Back Cover

A part of Pam Allyn’s highly popular Core Ready series, The Road to Knowledge guides teachers and students through three rich, dynamic lesson sets that focus on informational texts in the primary grades in ways that enliven inform, and inspire. With these lessons as a guide, students learn how to use the unique text features and structure of informational text to notice patterns and identify key ideas and concepts while building a vocabulary of domain-specific language. They see how to navigate informational texts and cite evidence, taking learning to a new level. The lessons cover:

 

Grade K―Connecting the Dots: Topics and Details in Informational Text

Grade 1―Navigating Non-Fiction

Grade 2―What’s The Big Idea: Using Text Features to Locate Key Information

 

With this book as a guide, students see how to:

 

• Read and listen carefully to explore nonfiction topics and discover important and interesting facts and details.
• Begin to notice and understand how to use text features and text structure to support their understanding and navigation of informational text.
• Become curious researchers who ask and answer their own questions.
• Compare and contrast sources on the same topic.
• Learn to take notes in an organized and purposeful manner.
• Share their discoveries through writing, speaking, and visual presentation.

 

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

 

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0132907453
• ISBN 13: 9780132907453
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320