Core Ready Lesson Sets for Grades 3-5: A Staircase to Standards Success for English Language Arts, The Journey to Meaning: Comprehension and Critique (Core Ready, Grades 3 to 5) - Softcover

Allyn, Pam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0132907569 ISBN 13: 9780132907569

Publisher: Pearson, 2013

Synopsis

The Journey to Meaning: Comprehension and Critique is a  a one-stop resource for turning the Common Core State Standards into meaningful instruction and learning―a rich day-to-day, step-by-step guide on how to implement the Common Core State Standards for English language arts in the areas of comprehension and critique, the meaning building that is so essential for growing readers and writers, and how to ensure that all students are core ready. 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.  Included are strategies and skills for comprehending, critiquing, and composing literary text as outlined in the Common Core State Standards.

 

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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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

                                                The Journey to Meaning: Comprehension and Critique

Pam Allyn

 

The Journey to Meaning: Comprehension and Critique is 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.

 

Enter through this door to in the Core Ready program to bring comprehension, critique and composition of literary texts to the classroom. This book specifically encompasses the strategies and skills all students need to comprehend, critique, and compose literary texts as outlined in the Common Core State Standards.

 

About the Program:

Core Ready is a dynamic series of books providing educators with critical tools for navigating the Common Core 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

 

“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 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)

 

 

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: 0132907569
• ISBN 13: 9780132907569
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304