Kategoria BISAC: Education >> Teaching - Subjects - Reading & Phonics

Brad Buhrow and Anne Garcia are primary teachers in a diverse school in Boulder, Colorado. In Ladybugs, Tornadoes and Swirling Galaxies, you will see how they blend comprehension instruction and ELL best practices to explore inquiry as a literacy pathway for English language learners.

As teachers and students engage in learning science and social studies content they also discover multiple ways to make meaning. The book is full of photographs of student artwork--including a color insert--that reveals the children's inquiry process, and demonstrates the important role of art as...

A boy and his mother go for a walk along the seashore and find all sorts of shapes. There's a starfish shaped like a star, a pebble that's an oval and a jellyfish that's a circle. A combination of fascinating photos and delightful artwork show the variety of shapes that can be found.

- Red A/Band 2A books offer predictable text with familiar objects and actions, combined with simple story development.

- Text type - A simple recount.

- The shapes are repeated on pages 14 and 15 for children to recall and discuss.

- This book has been levelled for Reading...

A patterned picture book about a family outing to the beach. The children are delighted when they spot seagulls, an ice-cream van, sand and even what they believe to be the sea, but are they at the beach yet? Lisa Smith's illustrations capture the children's excitement as they wait impatiently for their journey to end.

Red A/Band 2A books offer predictable text with familiar objects and actions, combined with simple story development.

Text type - A story with predictable structure and patterned language.

Pages 14 and 15 show a labelled beach scene, incorporating the key words...

The book is based on the wisdom gained from working with hundreds of students who have attended the author's after-school reading clinic. This is reflected in the practical approach to helping students of all ages including those with English as a second language and those with a range of...

A photographic non-fiction book that explains the many different types of robots and their uses. The report tells how robots help us in industry, security, and in exploring uninhabitable environments such as other planets, volcanoes, and the depths pf the ocean.

Blue/Band 4 books offer longer, repeated patterns with
sequential events and integrated literary and natural language.

Text type - A non-chronological report.

A labelled diagram on pages 14 and 15 shows the inner workings of a robot, providing the opportunity to further discuss the information.

Curriculum link -...

The Pet Detective has his work cut out when his favourite football goes missing. With his dog, Rooney, he sets out to follow the clues; an open window; a missing football; a dirty big footprint; a bubblegum wrapper and a rustle in the bushes. It isn t long before the Pet Detective has located the culprit.

Gold/Band 9 fiction books offer developing readers literary language and stories with distinctive characters.

Text type - A story by the same author.

A storyboard on pages 22 and 23 provides an opportunity for children to retell the story in their own words.

Curriculum...

A poor stone cutter who wished he was a rich man has his wish granted. He then keeps changing his wish, and each wish is granted. Finally he wishes himself back as he was at the start of the story.

Turquoise/ Band 7 books offer literay language and extended descriptions, with longer sentences and a wide range of unfamiliar terms.

Text type - A story from another culture (Japan).

The flowcharts on pages 22 and 23 illustrate the story in sequence, providing opportunities for speaking and listening, and scaffolding writing.

Curriculum links - Citizenship: Choices; Music:...

This is a non-fiction information book about Kim, who tells us about the location of her school. The book shows the exact whereabouts of Kim's classroom within her school, and then expands to locate her school in her city, country and the world. Illustrations include labelled photographs, simple maps, aerial maps and an image of the Earth.

Yellow/Band 3 books offer varied sentence structure and natural language.

Text type - An information book

Pages 14 and 15 include an index, and a visual reminder of Kim's location from her classroom school city country Earth, which can be...

The colourful photographs in this non-fiction recount demonstrates different ways of pushing and pulling through photographs taken in a children's playground, using swings, roundabouts and climbing frames and simple captions.

- Pink A/Band 1A books offer emergent readers very simple text supported by illustrations.

- Text type - A simple non-fiction recount.

- The photographs are repeated on pages 14 and 15 under the headings pushing and pulling providing an oppportunity to recap and discuss the information in the book.

The renowned children's writer Michael Morpurgo has written this vivid account of a child's stay at a farm, told in the form of letters home and illustrated with photographs of animals and children on location at the farm. Humorous and engaging, it conveys the fun and excitement of working closely with animals.

- Turquoise/ Band 7 books offer literay language and extended descriptions, with longer sentences and a wide range of unfamiliar terms.

- Text type - A recount of a visit.

- There is a timetable of the week's events on page 22 and an index on page 23 to help...