Promote Reading Gains with Differentiated Instruction

Ready-to-Use Lessons for Grades 3-5

Timothy Rasinski, David L. Harrison, Laura Robb

• Publisher: Shell Education
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN:
  9798765903414
• Edition: 0

Accelerate learning gains using differentiated instruction! This professional teaching resource supports educators with easy-to-use lessons that strengthen students' reading skills. This book provides teachers with 36 lessons that support differentiated instruction in grades 3, 4, and 5. The lessons focus on four advanced reading skills: visualize, infer, draw conclusions, and compare/contrast. Written by literacy experts and authors Laura Robb, Tim Rasinski, and David Harrison, this book offer useful lessons and reading strategies that meet students' diverse reading needs. The first part of this resource provides helpful information that supports the ready-to-implement lessons in the second part. These lessons create opportunities for individual and collective growth by reading, discussing, and writing about poems and texts. Build key literacy skills such as comprehension, critical thinking, vocabulary building, and word study with this teacher resource!

Table of contents

• A
• Page ii - Credits
• Page V - Table of Contents
• Page ix - Foreword
• Page xi - Preface: The Science and Art of Teaching Reading
• Page xvi - Acknowledgments
• Page 1 - Part I: Improving Comprehension and Fluency
• Page 2 - Chapter 1: Promoting and Nurturing Reading Gains
• Page 14 - Chapter 2: The Differentiated Lessons: Getting Started
• Page 18 - Chapter 3: Reader’s Notebooks
• Page 29 - Chapter 4: Practice and Performance
• Page 46 - Chapter 5: Student-Led Discussions
• Page 55 - Chapter 6: Assessment-Driven Interventions
• Page 65 - Part II: The Differentiated Lessons
• Page 66 - Chapter 7: Using the Differentiated Lessons
• Page 77 - Chapter 8: Visualizing
• Page 112 - Chapter 9: Inferring
• Page 161 - Chapter 10: Drawing Conclusions
• Page 205 - Chapter 11: Comparing and Contrasting
• Page 257 - Appendices
• Page 276 - References
• Page 281 - Word Ladders Answer Key
• Page 286 - Index
• Page 292 - Digital Resources
• B