Core Ready Lesson Sets for Grades 3-5: A Staircase to Standards Success for English Language Arts, The Shape of Story: Yesterday and Today (Core Ready ... Standards Success for English Language Arts) - Tapa blanda

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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.

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                                                                The Shape of Story: Yesterday and Today 

The Shape of Story: Yesterday and Today 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 in the Core Ready program to bring the power of literary narrative with a focus on the importance of theme, character, and story structures from both yesterday’s and today’s literature to the classroom. Readers see how to turn the standards into meaningful instruction and teaching toward accomplishment of the narrative and archetypal story-centered goals in the 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

 “[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)

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.