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Paperback How to Align Literacy Instruction, Assessment, and Standards: And Achieve Results You Never Dreamed Possible Book

ISBN: 0325006628

ISBN13: 9780325006628

How to Align Literacy Instruction, Assessment, and Standards: And Achieve Results You Never Dreamed Possible

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In this book, Nancy Akhavan details the stories and strategies that enabled her school to move from "under-performing" status to one in which students achieve and teachers have a whole new understanding of targeted instruction, sensitive assessment, and meaningful curriculum. There is much to appreciate in what she says, from her attention to "thinking small" and understanding the power of the details, her emphasis on planning and goal-setting, to the seriousness with which she takes the standards and incorporates them into the life of the classroom.

Drawing on the work of the best in the business, Lucy Calkins, David and Yvonne Freeman, and Tony Alvarado, Akhavan made professional development the heartbeat of her school as she helped her faculty understand that their work begins and ends with continuous assessment of their students. Now she helps readers of her book learn: how child-centered assessment leads to strategic instruction how to best support multilingual learners how to organize for yearlong learning how to think through precise workshop instruction in minilessons how to develop meaningful curriculum around units of study how to create a vibrant school community where standards and accountability stem from regular assessment and examination of instructional practices. Akhavan provides immediately useful information for any elementary teacher, principal, or curriculum developer. Read her book and understand how to use standards as a way to connect meaningful instruction to students, not as a bar that students have to reach or a barrier to real teaching and learning.

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Inspiring and Refreshing

This is the book that inspired me to professionally side step the test-prep classroom environment of dull grade level anthologies and drill and kill worksheets in lieu of in-depth studies of engaging fiction and non-fiction texts and trade books. Our recent foray into Island of the Blue Dolphins definitely revealed that my students' overall text comprehension, command of new and unique vocabulary, grasp of overlying literature themes, identification of major and minor plot lines, and awareness of the ever changing character traits of the individuals within the story was significantly enhance simply by my refreshed way of teaching. Please refrain from purchasing this book simply to place it on your shelf of notable professional books, as How to Align Literacy Instruction, Assessment, and Standards deserves to be read, dog-eared, margin noted, and implemented daily into your classroom.

Get Driven by Students

This book is a great book as it provokes thoughts that allow you to organize your instruction to a higer level. It allows to you examine what you do and why you do it. I believe the author really understands what a teacher goes through and makes the monster more efficient. The book offers information as well as practical support for all teachers.
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