Thinking Strategies for Student Achievement: Improving Learning Across the Curri

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"This resource provides a repertoire of high-effect comprehension strategies. It is important for classroom teachers and school leaders to be able to justify why they are using specific strategies and what the benefits are of a specific strategy. Nessel and Graham provide this justification."-W. Dorsey Hammond, Professor of EducationSalisbury UniversityUse these strategies to develop your students??? thinking skills and increase their learning in all subject areas.How can teachers improve students??? higher level and creative thinking? The revised edition of this handbook provides strategies and sample lesson plans to help students learn to think more effectively and to raise their achievement levels.Drawing upon past and recent research, the authors discuss the importance of actively engaging all students-including those with a history of low achievement-in higher levels of thinking. Thirty specific strategies, including K-W-L, Read and Think Math, and Reciprocal Teaching, can be readily integrated into daily lesson plans.This step-by-step guide shows teachers how to: Help students develop, refine, and extend their thinking capacities Challenge students to creatively approach complex and unfamiliar material Encourage students to bring their own perspective to class assignments Provide students at all learning levels with appropriate supportWith its user-friendly, practical approach, this important resource should be in the hands of every educator!

FORMATPaperback LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Publisher Description

This revised edition offers 30 specific strategies, readily integrated into daily lesson plans, to help K-12 students extend their thinking capabilities and raise their achievement levels.

Author Biography

Denise Nessel is an associate of the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education (NUA), where she focuses on teaching reading and writing as thinking processes in grades K-12. She has worked as a secondary English teacher, elementary reading specialist, reading clinician, university professor, district-level curriculum supervisor, co-director of a statewide staff development project, curriculum manager at educational software companies, and consultant to schools around the country and abroad. Nessel has conducted numerous workshops and demonstration lessons for teachers and administrators and has served as a consultant and writer for educational publishers and multimedia firms. She has written several books and classroom resources for teachers and a number of articles for professional journals. Joyce M. Graham, Ph.D. is the Director of Professional Development for Scholastic RED, the professional development division of Scholastic, Inc. In this capacity, Joyce is responsible for recruiting and training consultants as well as developing and managing institutes and workshops. Before joining Scholastic, Joyce had her own educational consultant firm and worked with school districts across the country. She was a classroom teacher for over 15 years and brings her classroom experience to her work with teachers. Joyce has co-authored several books for classroom teachers. She has also served as editor for several books focusing on professional development.

Table of Contents

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbout the AuthorsIntroduction: Thinking--Levels, Purposes, and Contexts1. Analogies2. Anticipation Guide3. Carousel Brainstorming4. Cloze Procedure5. Cubing6. Directed Reading-Thinking Activity (DRTA)7. Facts and Inferences8. Frayer Model for Concept Development9. Freewriting10. Games for Thinking11. Graphic Organizers12. I-Search Reporting13. Imitation Writing14. Jigsaw15. Journals and Learning Logs16. Key Word Notes17. Key Word Prediction18. KWL19. List Group Label20. Notetaking21. Paraphrasing22. Possible Sentences23. Read and Think Math (RAT Math)24. Read Talk Write25. Readers' Theater26. Reciprocal Teaching27. Saturation Reporting28. Scrambled Words and Sentences29. Think-Pair-Share30. Writing FramesResource: Combining Strategies--Sample LessonsBibliographyIndex

Review

"This resource provides a repertoire of high-effect comprehension strategies. It is important for classroom teachers and school leaders to be able to justify why they are using specific strategies and what the benefits are of a specific strategy. Nessel and Graham provide this justification." -- W. Dorsey Hammond, Professor of Education "One of the book's major strengths is the simple and straightforward organization of each chapter, which makes the material predictable, accessible, and easy to follow." -- Patty McGee, Fourth Grade Teacher "This book can be used at all grade levels and with any curriculum. The layout of each chapter is great, guiding teachers through the strategy without scripting." -- Kael Sagheer, Fifth Grade Teacher "Teachers at all levels will find this material useful because the text describes each strategy, explains its benefits, presents step-by-step procedures to teach each strategy, and provides suggestions for implementation." -- Leonard J. Villanueva, Sixth Grade Teacher

Long Description

"This resource provides a repertoire of high-effect comprehension strategies. It is important for classroom teachers and school leaders to be able to justify why they are using specific strategies and what the benefits are of a specific strategy. Nessel and Graham provide this justification."-W. Dorsey Hammond, Professor of EducationSalisbury UniversityUse these strategies to develop your students? thinking skills and increase their learning in all subject areas.How can teachers improve students? higher level and creative thinking? The revised edition of this handbook provides strategies and sample lesson plans to help students learn to think more effectively and to raise their achievement levels.Drawing upon past and recent research, the authors discuss the importance of actively engaging all students-including those with a history of low achievement-in higher levels of thinking. Thirty specific strategies, including K-W-L, Read and Think Math, and Reciprocal Teaching, can be readily integrated into daily lesson plans.This step-by-step guide shows teachers how to: Help students develop, refine, and extend their thinking capacities Challenge students to creatively approach complex and unfamiliar material Encourage students to bring their own perspective to class assignments Provide students at all learning levels with appropriate support With its user-friendly, practical approach, this important resource should be in the hands of every educator!

Review Quote

"This resource provides a repertoire of high-effect comprehension strategies. It is important for classroom teachers and school leaders to be able to justify why they are using specific strategies and what the benefits are of a specific strategy. Nessel and Graham provide this justification."

Details ISBN1412938813 Author Joyce M. Graham Short Title THINKING STRATEGIES FOR STU-2E Pages 235 Publisher Corwin Press Language English Edition 2nd ISBN-10 1412938813 ISBN-13 9781412938815 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 370.152 Illustrations Yes Year 2006 Publication Date 2006-08-31 Subtitle Improving Learning Across the Curriculum, K-12 Country of Publication United States Place of Publication Thousand Oaks Residence US Birth 1943 Affiliation National Urban Alliance for Effective Education Replaces 9781575172651 Imprint SAGE Publications Inc DOI 10.1604/9781412938815 Audience Professional and Scholarly UK Release Date 2006-09-26 NZ Release Date 2006-09-26 US Release Date 2006-09-26 AU Release Date 2006-09-25 We've got this

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