Improving Reading: Strategies, Resources, and Common Core Connections

Author(s): Jerry Johns, Susan Lenski

Improving Reading is perhaps the most comprehensive, useful reading resource available. It is full of ideas for professionals who work with whole classes, individual students, or groups of students. The eight chapters correlate with the main components of a comprehensive reading curriculum and the C...

Essential Comprehension Strategies for the Intermediate Grades

Author(s): Jerry Johns, Susan Lenski, Roberta L. Berglund

View the Reading Resources Catalog This new book presents comprehension strategies that have utility in reading, as well as other areas of the curriculum. All of the materials necessary for implementing each of the 23 strategies are includes, as well as examples of how the strategy might be used ...

Reading and Learning Strategies: Middle Grades Through High School

Author(s): Jerry Johns, Susan Lenski, Micki M Caskey, Mary Ann Wham

This fourth edition is based on the Professional Standards developed by the International Reading Assoc. (IRA). Educators will get over 100 content-relevant instructional strategies. Each research-based strategy includes a detailed explanation and examples from various content areas. A quick refe...

Visualization: Using Mental Images to Strengthen Comprehension

Author(s): Linda Zeigler, Jerry Johns

Visualization has not been a common word in most classroom reading programs. In recent years, however, the impact of visualization on student comprehension has gained greater awareness among reading educators. This compact, easy-to-use book helps teachers understand visualization and how to apply th...

Fluency: Questions, Answers, and Evidence-Based Strategies

Author(s): Patricia Smith, Melanie Walski, Jerry Johns, Roberta L. Berglund

Are you trying to help your students become more fluent readers?Are you doing progress monitoring? Do you think that differentiating fluency interventions can help you respond to individual differences among your students?Help is on the way. This easy to use resource is written with teachers in mind...

Improving Writing K-8: Strategies, Assessments, Resources

Author(s): Susan Lenski, Jerry Johns

Improving Writing: Resources, Strategies, and Assessments, by well-known and trusted authors Susan Davis Lenski and Jerry L. Johns, provides teachers with all the background they need to help students improve their writing skills.A variety of strategies, assessment ideas, and resources will meet div...

Texas Public School Organization and Administration: 2020

Author(s): James A Vornberg, Nathan Templeton, GARY MILLER

Principal and superintendent program students are the future educational leaders of Texas.Texas Public School Organization and Administration: 2024 provides future educational leaders with an effective background for success in leading a campus or district.The objectives of educational leadership pr...

Mind Over Matter: Exploring Critical-Thinking Skills

Author(s): Bunnie Loree Claxton, Dawn Cobb-Fossnes

Mind Over Matter: Exploring Critical Thinking Skills is curriculum written to teach students the skills they need to collect data, analyze data, search for facts, and think for themselves. Students are bombarded with information, much of which is inaccurate, misleading, and even hurtful. This curric...

Game Changer: Exploring Christ-Centered Critical-Thinking Skills

Author(s): Bunnie Loree Claxton, Dawn Cobb-Fossnes

Game Changer: Exploring Christ-Centered Critical Thinking Skills is curriculum written to teach students the skills they need to approach their thought processes from a biblical and Christ-centered approach. Students will learn to collect data, analyze data, search for the truth, and think for thems...

Mind Over Matter: Exploring Critical-Thinking Skills - Teacher Edition

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This curriculum is designed to collect data, analyze data, search for the truth, and think for themselves. This curriculum is also designed to support the social and emotional needs of today’s teen. Socially, this curriculum helps students and teachers build relationships with specifically designed ...