Core Ready Lesson Sets for Grades 3-5: A Staircase to Standards Success for English Language Arts, The Road to Knowledge: Information and Research (Core Ready Lesson Sets: Grades 3 to 5) - Softcover

Allyn, Pam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0132907550 ISBN 13: 9780132907552

Publisher: Pearson, 2013

Synopsis

The Road to Knowledge: Information and Research  turn the Common Core State Standards into meaningful instruction and learning in informational reading and writing—a rich day-to-day, step-by-step guide on how to implement the Common Core State Standards for English language arts and how to ensure that all students are core ready. Through them, readers see 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.  Included are rich, dynamic lesson sets for informational reading and writing, each with complete step by step reading and writing lessons, as well as highlights for speaking, listening, and language use. It is a book for teachers, administrative leaders, literacy coaches, ELL specialists, special educators, media specialists, reading teachers, content area teachers, professors, and students of education. 

 

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.

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Review

CORE READY LESSON SETS:

3-5 Books:

 “[This is an] innovative text that effectively presents reading and writing as what they truly are: vital tools that our students need in order to live successful lives. It calls upon students to become active lifelong learners and challenges them to extend their reading and writing abilities. Its lessons give students the “hands on approach” that is needed to motivate them to become effective analysts and authors.... Most importantly, all literacy skills taught in this text are presented in the same way that our students will see them in their adult lives. This book will bring life into your reading and writing workshops. This is the text that all effective teachers have been asking and waiting for.”

 

“I love what this book stands for academically. I love how easy it is to follow. I love how it contains everything from the pre-assessment of a skill until the final rubric. This book would allow me to spend more time teaching and less time planning/preparing. A home run for both me and my students.”

 -- Elizabeth Smith, Madison Elementary School (VA)

 

“Inspiring. Genuine. Talking from down in the trenches not from up on high. Brings the Common Core down from the rafters for a more manageable understanding.”

 -- Wendy Fiore, Chester Elementary School (CT)

 

“I would strongly recommend it to colleagues and my administration because I feel it would be a resource series that would ultimately improve the way I teach literacy. I haven’t felt that way about a PD book since grad school.”

 -- Katie Lynn Klaus, M.S.Ed

 

From the Back Cover

The Road to Knowledge: Information and Research

Pam Allyn

 

The Road to Knowledge: Information and Researchis one of the 4 Doors to Core Ready for the standards-serious student and teacher.  It is a rich day-to-day, step-by-step guide for helping all students become Core Ready.  Using the books in The Core Ready Program, readers see how to turn the standards into meaningful instruction and learning.

 

These lesson sets focus on informational texts and research in ways that enliven, inform, and inspire. Through them, readers see 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.

 

About the Program:

Core Ready is a dynamic series of books providing educators with critical tools for navigating the Common Core State Standards effectively, fluidly, and successfully. In the pages of these books, readers see how to take complex concepts related to the standards and turn them into practical, specific, everyday instruction. The series is founded on the author’s 4 Doors to Core Ready, an easy to use yet strikingly brilliant way to access and organize all of the content within the standards:

 

Core Ready Lesson Sets for Grades 3-5: A Staircase to Standards Success:

• 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

 

“[This is an] innovative text that effectively presents reading and writing as what they truly are: vital tools that our students need in order to live successful lives. It calls upon students to become active lifelong learners and challenges them to extend their reading and writing abilities. Its lessons give students the “hands on approach” that is needed to motivate them to become effective analysts and authors.... Most importantly, all literacy skills taught in this text are presented in the same way that our students will see them in their adult lives. This book will bring life into your reading and writing workshops. This is the text that all effective teachers have been asking and waiting for.”

 -- Elizabeth Smith, Madison Elementary School (VA)

 

“Inspiring. Genuine. Talking from down in the trenches not from up on high. Brings the Common Core down from the rafters for a more manageable understanding.”

 -- Wendy Fiore, Chester Elementary School (CT)

 

Pam Allyn is an authority in the field of literacy education and the world’s expert in home and school literacy connections. As a renowned motivational speaker, expert consultant, author, teacher, and humanitarian advocating for children, she is transforming the way we think about literacy as a tool for communication and knowledge building.

 

Pam currently serves as 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 which reaches children across the United States and in over 60 countries. Her methods for helping all students achieve success 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.

 

 

 

 

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0132907550
• ISBN 13: 9780132907552
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304