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More Than 100 Brain-Friendly Tools and Strategies for Literacy Instruction - Book Cover Look Inside
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More Than 100 Brain-Friendly Tools and Strategies for Literacy Instruction

Boost literacy achievement with these practical, brain-compatible strategies!

Translating the latest brain research into ready-to-use tactics, this essential guide offers tools to promote literacy development in your classroom. Internationally renowned educator Kathy Perez offers a definitive collection of 100+ proven strategies that can be implemented easily for maximum results at any level. This resource features:

  • Approaches to motivate students with active learning
  • Specific techniques for differentiation and utilizing multiple intelligences
  • Tactics to strengthen reading comprehension and the meaning-making process 
  • Pre-reading strategies, standards-based activities, planning templates, reproducibles, and other resources to boost student achievement

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More Than 100 Brain-Friendly Tools and Strategies for Literacy Instruction - Book Cover Look Inside
Product Details
  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9781412926935
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2008
  • Page Count: 136
  • Publication date: April 29, 2008

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"This is a fabulous book! Hundreds of activities that can be implemented at no cost. Buy it, use it, and allow the genius of Kathy Perez to rub off on you."
—Harry K. Wong, Author
The First Days of School

Boost literacy achievement with these practical, brain-compatible strategies!

Activating prior knowledge, differentiating instruction, and creating interactive opportunities—these are key practices that optimize learning, according to brain research. This essential guide translates cutting-edge research into ready-to-use tactics to promote literacy development in your classroom.

Internationally recognized educator Kathy Perez offers a definitive collection of more than 100 field-tested strategies that can be implemented easily and immediately for maximum results at any grade level. The activities and tools provide strong building blocks for creating a dynamic, brain-friendly environment where teachers and students thrive. The book offers a flexible framework, step-by-step guidance, and key features such as:

  • Approaches to motivate students with hands-on learning
  • Specific techniques for differentiation and utilizing multiple intelligences
  • Tactics to strengthen reading comprehension and the meaning-making process
  • Pre-reading strategies, standards-based activities, planning templates, reproducibles, and other resources to boost student achievement

More Than 100 Brain-Friendly Tools and Strategies for Literacy empowers teachers, literacy coaches, and reading specialists with proven tools to cultivate active learning.


Key features

  • Offers teachers practical strategies for use in the inclusive classroom to reach all learners and boost literacy achievement
  • Shows teachers how to design and implement effective literacy lessons
  • Demonstrates how to use brain-based research to maximize learning, support students' unique learning styles, and meet learners' cognitive and emotional needs and development
  • High-effect strategies help teachers respond to challenges of increasing literacy for struggling students and teaching in an inclusive class
  • Helps make teaching more rewarding and beneficial for all students
Author(s)

Author(s)

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Kathy Perez

Katherine Perez, a professor of education at Saint Mary’s College of California, has over three decades of teaching experience from the preschool level through graduate school. A frequent presenter and enthusiastic “teacher cheerleader,” she offers guidance to both novice and experienced educators. Perez is an international educational consultant, author, and motivational speaker, specializing in instructional strategies and creative approaches to literacy and professional development. She integrates state-of-the-art methods and research with passion and practical insights from her own classroom experiences.

Perez has taught in many diverse environments, including in Richmond and Oakland, as a general educator, special educator, reading specialist, and curriculum and staff development coordinator. In order to “keep it real,” she balances her college courses and her work as a coordinator for the California Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment program by serving as a literacy coach in a San Francisco Bay Area middle school, engaging even the most reluctant learners with brain-friendly techniques.

Perez works with teachers, administrators and parents throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, the Caribbean, New Zealand, and Australia. For the past three years, she has conducted extensive training in Singapore and Hong Kong for the Ministry of Education.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

About the Author

1. Brain-Based Literacy Learning - Pieces of the Puzzle

The Research Connection

Reading Comprehension and the Brain

Personal Connections

Reflect to Connect

Slow Down to Go Faster

Different Ways of Knowing - Different Ways of Showing

2. Activate to Educate!

Why Activate?

Prereading Strategies

Anticipation Guide/Prediction Guide

People Bingo

Windowpane

Graphic Organizers

K-W-L

Preview Puzzles

Sticky-Note Discussion/Graffiti Board

Story Impressions

Word Splash

Backtrack

Learning Lineup

Voting With Your Feet

Preview Pairs

Sort and Report

Postcard Connections

3. What Does a Brain-Compatible Classroom Look Like?

Tips for Developing a Brain-Compatible Classroom

Content and Process ("Gum" and "Chew")

State Changes

Management Tips

Grouping and Floor Plans

Learning Centers

Sample Centers

Creating Independent Learners

Strategies for Flexible Grouping

Managing for Grouping Accountability

Planning for Grouping

Mix-Mingle-Swap

Carousel Cruising

Walk and Talk Tour

Newscast Reporting

Clock Buddies

Grouping "Roundup"

4. Literacy is NOT a Spectator Sport!

Note Taking/ Note Making

Summary Strategies

Picture This: Stretch to Sketch

Rhyme Time

Slogans

Comparison

Questioning Strategies

Translation

Alliteration

Speculation

Applications

Reflection

5. Differentiate to Motivate!

Essential Elements of Differentiation

What Is This Thing Called Differentiation?

Pieces of the Puzzle

Managing Your Differentiated Classroom

Ten Things to Try Next Week (To Encourage Independence and Differentiate Instruction)

Lesson Planning for Action

Professor of the Week

"Professor for the Week"

Active Participation Strategies

Give One/ Get One

Save the Last Word for Me!

Cubing

6. Into, Through, and Beyond Boosters

Developing an Instructional Framework

"Into" Strategies

"Through" Strategies

Coding Strategy

"Beyond" Strategies

Flip Book

"Two Facts and a Fib"

Question Fan

Celebrate a Book

Fishbone Strategy

Question "Connections"

Conclusion

  • Paired Reading/ Buddy Reading
  • "I remember"*
  • Teacher Read-Alouds
  • Anticipation Guide/ Prediction Guide
  • People Bingo
  • Windowpane
  • Chapter 1
  • Chapter 2
  • Chapter 3
  • Chapter 4
  • Chapter 5
  • Chapter 6
  • Think-Pair-Share
  • Coding Strategy
  • V.I.P. Strategy
  • Clock Buddies*
  • Learning Log
  • Reader's Theatre
  • Dramatization/ Improvisation
  • Storyboard
  • Student-Generated Questions
  • Sketch-to-Stretch*
  • Prediction/Speculation
  • Paraphrase
  • Comparison/Contrast*
  • Personal Response
  • Discussion*
  • Learning Logs
  • Learning Line-Ups*
  • Consultation Line-Ups
  • Text Posters
  • Y-Chart*
  • Idead Wave
  • Flip Book
  • Numbered Heads Together*
  • Snowball*
  • Exit Cards*
  • Outcome Sentences*
  • Reflective Writing
  • Letter to the Author
  • Cubing*
  • I-Search Paper
  • Rewrite Ending
  • Debate/Panel Discussion
  • Newspaper
  • Discussion*
  • Story Map
  • Bulletin Board
  • Time Line
  • "20 Questions" Game
  • "2 Facts and a Fib"
  • Bookmarks
  • Comic Strip
  • Characters Diary
  • Question Fan
  • Write a Play
  • Add Anothe Chapter
  • Tic-Tac-Toe Game
  • Fishbone Strategy
  • Questions "Connections"
  • K-W-L*
  • Tapping Prior Knowledge
  • Brainstorming
  • Quick Writes
  • Teacher Read-Alouds
  • Video Clips
  • Text Tours, Picture Walks
  • Sticky-Note Discussion*
  • Mapping
  • Focus Questions
  • Anticipation Guide*
  • Field Trips
  • Interviews
  • Research Projects
  • Speakers
  • Dramatization
  • Music or Art Projects
  • Short Story or Poem
  • Discussion
  • Word Splash*
  • Choral Responses
  • Partner Responses
  • Written Responses
  • Randomly Call on Students
  • Pre-Assessment
  • Content
  • Process/Instructional Methods
  • Products/ Assessments
  • Graphic Organizers
  • Outcome Sentences
  • Exit Cards
  • Idea Wave
  • Y Chart
  • The Foggiest POint
  • The 5-Minute Paper
  • Snowball
  • Jigsaw Book
  • "Sketch-to-Stretch"
  • Question Card Relay
  • Numbered Heads Huddle
  • Talking Chips
  • Synectics
  • Question Card Hobby
  • "I remember"
  • 10/2 Rule
  • Color-Coded Buddies
  • Address Buddies
  • The Eyes Have It!
  • Deal Me In
  • Stand-up, Hand-up, Pair-up
  • Comic Strip Groups
  • Valentine Pepper Pairs
  • Salt and Pepper Pairs
  • TAPS Grouping Strategies
  • Seasonal Partners
  • Day/Night Partners
  • Newspaper Centers
  • Book Review Center
  • Poetry Center
  • Creation Station
  • Write to a Friend Center
  • Never Ending Story Center
  • ABC Book Center
  • Greeting Card Center
  • Graphic Organizers
  • K-W-L
  • Preview Puzzles
  • Sticky-Note Discussion/ Graffiti Board
  • Story Impressions
  • Word Splash
  • Backtrack
  • Learning Line-up
  • Consultation Line-up
  • Inside-Outside Circles
  • Voting With Your Feet
  • Sort and Report
  • Postcard Connections
  • Preview Pairs

References

Index

Reviews

Reviews

Quote by Harry K. Wong, Author, The First Days of School: "This is a fabulous book! Hundreds of activities that can be implemented at no cost. Buy it, use it, and allow the genius of Kathy Perez to rub off on you."
"This is a fabulous book! Hundreds of activities that can be implemented at no cost. Buy it, use it, and allow the genius of Kathy Perez to rub off on you."
Harry K. Wong, Author
The First Days of School
Quote by Mary Amato, Literacy Coach, Bell Elementary School, Chicago, IL: "This is a helpful, user-friendly book of easy-to-implement reading strategies. The coverage and length are appropriate for the busy classroom teacher."
"This is a helpful, user-friendly book of easy-to-implement reading strategies. The coverage and length are appropriate for the busy classroom teacher."
Mary Amato, Literacy Coach
Bell Elementary School, Chicago, IL
Quote by Marilee Sprenger, Educational Consultant, Author, Becoming a “Wiz” at Brain-Based Teaching: “The book is well-organized and covers important components for reading. This is a major contribution to the recent literature on reading and brain-based teaching.”
“The book is well-organized and covers important components for reading. This is a major contribution to the recent literature on reading and brain-based teaching.”
Marilee Sprenger, Educational Consultant
Author, Becoming a “Wiz” at Brain-Based Teaching
Quote by Lori Oczkus, National Literacy Consultant and Author: "This book belongs on the desk of every teacher who wants to engage and excite students in brain based learning. Kathy Perez is the ultimate cheerleader for teachers and she gives teachers over 100 easy to use tools to help students succeed.”
"This book belongs on the desk of every teacher who wants to engage and excite students in brain based learning. Kathy Perez is the ultimate cheerleader for teachers and she gives teachers over 100 easy to use tools to help students succeed.”
Lori Oczkus, National Literacy Consultant and Author
Quote by Rick Morris, Educator, Creator of "New Management": "What a great resource! Clear, concise, and current, Perez's book makes effective literacy instruction a reality for teachers everywhere."
"What a great resource! Clear, concise, and current, Perez's book makes effective literacy instruction a reality for teachers everywhere."
Rick Morris, Educator
Creator of "New Management"
Quote by The Bookwatch, July 2008, Midwest Book Review: "These strategies will provide teachers, literacy coaches, and reading specialists not only with theory but proven tools that work, making for an important classroom pick."
"These strategies will provide teachers, literacy coaches, and reading specialists not only with theory but proven tools that work, making for an important classroom pick."
The Bookwatch, July 2008
Midwest Book Review

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