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Active Readers: Tools and strategies for comprehension

Author: Cheryl Lacey

LOWER PRIMARY
76 pp
RRP: $34.95
SCIS No: 1334091
ISBN: 9781863666664

MIDDLE PRIMARY
76 pp
RRP: $34.95
SCIS No: 1334092
ISBN: 9781863666671

UPPER PRIMARY
76 pp
RRP: $34.95
SCIS No: 1334094
ISBN: 9781863666688

Active Readers celebrates individuals and the unique way each student connects with the text, shares their understandings and explores unfamiliar territory to become competent, confident, critical readers.

This series of three books for lower, middle and upper primary provides an overview of comprehension, six key comprehension strategies and resources to invite discussion and engage students in active reading behaviours.

Each book features text explorations grouped under the six key comprehension strategies: prediction/prior knowledge, thinking aloud, text structure and features, questioning, visualising and summarising. The explorations are designed to suit shared, guided and independent reading and are each accompanied by a planning guide and a graphic organiser. The graphic organisers can be interchanged among the text explorations, creating hundreds of possibilities for investigating comprehension.

This versatile comprehension series is a resource that will be readily absorbed into everyday classroom practice.

The Writing Circle

128 pp
Author: Sylvia Gunnery
RRP: $49.95
SCIS No: 1332968
ISBN: 9781551382173
Years 4–12

Writing circles create a natural, cooperative learning environment where students build on what they know, and inspire each other to grow as writers.

This comprehensive resource includes everything you need to support writing circles in your classroom. Sample lessons include specific learning goals and suggestions for student and teacher roles.

Many of these lessons require that the teacher guide the writing circles, step-by-step, through activities, but gradually students will become more independent as they build skills and become more confident writers.

Revision techniques and tips for encouraging the use of reference tools are a major focus of the book and lessons.

Talking, Drawing, Writing: Lessons for our youngest writers

276 pp
Authors: Martha Horn and Mary Ellen Giacobbe
RRP: $49.95
SCIS No: 1332782
ISBN: 9781571104564
Stenhouse Publishers

In the early years, talking and drawing can provide children with a natural pathway to writing, yet their potential is often overlooked. In Talking, Drawing, Writing, Martha Horn and Mary Ellen Giacobbe invite readers to join them in classrooms where they listen, watch and talk with children, then use what they learn to create lessons designed to meet children where they are and lead them into the world of writing. The authors make a case for a broader definition of writing, advocating formal storytelling sessions in which children talk about what they know, and focused sketching sessions in which budding writers learn how to observe more carefully.

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Write with Purpose: An approach to personal writing

80 pp
Author: Jane Caughey
RRP: $34.95
SCIS No: 1334080
ISBN: 9781742003047

This book features activities that build on students’ personal experiences, thoughts, emotions and opinions.

Each chapter covers a different personal writing genre: recounts, journals, letters, poems and arguments. Structured models for each genre step teachers and students through the writing process, using teacher and student information pages, task cards and reproducible worksheets. Activities are focused around:

story ideas
building shape and structure
consideration of audience and purpose
language features
re-reading, editing and publishing.

Develop your students’ skills in planning, composing, editing and publishing across a range of personal writing genres using game-based activities that fully engage students in the learning experience!