Reading the Whole Page: Teaching and Assessing Text Features to Meet K-5 Common Core Standards(Maupin House)

When K-5 students understand how to read text features like bullets, insets, and bold print, they are reading the whole page--essential for deep comprehension of non-fiction and fiction text. In Reading the Whole Page: Teaching and Assessing Text Features to Meet K-5 Common Core Standards, seasoned educators Michelle Kelley and Nicki Clausen-Grace show you how to explicitly teach K-5 students to read text features, use them to navigate text, and include them in their own writing. The classroom-proven mini-lessons, activities, and assessment tools in Reading the Whole Page help you: Teach relevant Common Core Reading Standards and grade-level expectations; Diagnose, monitor, and meet student needs with one of two level-appropriate assessments; Evaluate knowledge with a unique picture book on CD that illustrates all the text features; and Monitor and guide differentiated instruction with a convenient class profile. &&/UL&&Sixty mini-lessons for teaching print, graphic, and organizational features provide ample choices for meeting the standards while adapting to students' needs. Flexible lessons, which follow the gradual release of responsibility model and increase in difficulty, can be used within the typical ninety-minute reading block, during content-area instruction, in small groups, and as part of independent practice opportunities like literacy centers. Each lesson offers concept review, suggestions for differentiation, assessment options, and technology connections, requiring students to find, explore, manipulate, and create text features in their own writing. Even more activities--from text feature walks to scavenger hunts--help students integrate text feature knowledge as they read. The included CD provides important resources and convenient lesson supports, such as interactive thinksheets that can be filled out directly on the computer, visual examples of each text feature, rubrics, the assessment picture book, and readers' theatre scripts.

Review :
An excellent resource for teaching a skill that tends to be difficult to find resources for, text features! This book includes mini-lessons arranged by type of text feature as well as resources for assessing students' knowledge. The lessons are divided into categories: print features, graphic features and organizational features. The appendices are full of reproducibles for teaching and tracking student progress. CD includes assessments and easy to print copies of some of the activities from the book, plus more!-- "Amanda Alden" Literacy goes beyond just reading the words; it comes with understanding. Reading the Whole Page: Teaching and Assessing Text Features to Meet K-5 Common Core Standards, is a guide for educators to help their students learn and understand advanced reading techniques and font eccentricities like bold and italic, as well as enhancing reading comprehension on a deeper level. With plenty of activities and exercises to help the learning process, Reading the Whole Page is enhanced with a CD-ROM that includes additional resources, making for a very much recommended addition to educational reference collections.-- "Midwest Book Review" Michelle Kelley and Nicki Clausen-Grace have crafted a text feature go-to guide with practical resource tools designed for everyday use. Teachers will love the Knowledge of Text Features Assessment tool, a rare gem to inform essential text feature instruction. This book is one that educators will reach for again and again as they implement the CCSS and unravel the tapestry of informational text.-- "Valerie Ellery"