Dr. Lora L. Tyson Education Curriculum Resource Center

Grades: 2-6
Description: Contains unique and engaging instructional strategies that will motivate all of your students! By using Literacy Bins multi-unit compartments containing thematic, content-aligned activities you can meet multiple classroom objectives while sparking your students curiosity and sustaining their interest.

Description ntroduces a question-the-author approach to teaching reading comprehension, shows how to develop prompts and lead discussions, and examines twenty-five common discussion scenarios.

Grades: 2-3
Description: Contains four sets of cards: Predicting Outcomes, Reading between the lines, Drawing Conclusions, and Following Directions.
Each card includes a leveled reading passage and a multiple-choice question that asks students to make a prediction using the text.

Grades: 4-8
Description: A whole new vision of teaching nonfiction. Contains 50 powerhouse lessons, a bank of short informational texts, dozens of student practice activities and graphic organizers for taming textbooks.

Each cube has 6 questions or phrases printed on it. Activity guide contains instructions and suggestions for use in before- and/or after-reading activities.

Grades: K-8
Description: Learn how to make vocabulary instruction more effective by making better use of mini-lessons and word study time to achieve durable learning about words and how they work. In this essential new book, literacy expert Amy Benjamin presents her 4E model (Exposure, Exploration, Engagement, Energy) for teaching vocabulary so that students gain deep understanding, improving their overall language and literacy skills.

Description This teacher-friendly and practical resource provides 42 specific strategies that teachers in all content areas can use to help learners grasp the intended meaning. The strategies range from quick and easy ways to assist students with content vocabulary as instruction is ongoing, to more comprehensive strategies that are important lessons in themselves. Some strategies are particularly effective with English Language Learners as well as other students who may have reading difficulties.

Grades: 6-12
Description: Access 100+ effective, practical, and fun vocabulary exercises that take 20 minutes or less. each minilesson can be easily modified to fit your curriculum and your students' needs. Rely on this resource to help refine your instruction and strengthen students' vocabulary, their interest in reading, and their likelihood of success in the 21st century.

Description: Using connecting rods, children learn to construct words with prefixes and suffixes; practice spelling changes; use word analysis to build vocabulary and more.

Description: Using connecting rods, children learn to identify speech, construct sentences, recognize subjects and predicates, and use correct punctuation.

Description Grammar Alive! offers teachers ways to negotiate the often conflicting goals of testing, confident writing, the culturally inclusive classroom, and the teaching of Standard English while also honoring other varieties of English. This hands-on approach to grammar in the classroom includes numerous examples and practical vignettes describing real teachers’ real classroom experiences with specific grammar lessons―including ESL issues―as well as a review of grammar basics.

Description: It contains a collection of imaginative and interesting grammar practice activities suitable for a wide range of levels and ages. Part one provides: * a detailed introduction to grammar teaching * guidelines for the design of activities * practical hints on effective classroom presentation. Part two contains: * almost 200 game-like activities for practicing important or problematical aspects of English grammar, with detailed descriptions of procedure * sample texts and visuals.

Grades: K-12
Description This carefully crafted book offers 40 standards-based instructional activities that teachers can immediately put to use in the classroom. Clear rationales and step-by-step instructions are provided for implementing each strategy, together with helpful classroom examples and suggested texts for different grade levels.

Grades: K-5
Description: This easy-to-use guide provides model lesson plans for teaching the standards in reading, writing, speaking/listening, and language. Our Common Core Literacy Lesson Plans are designed to fit seamlessly into your K-5 curriculum.

Grades: 9-12
Description: This easy-to-use guide meets the particular needs of high school teachers. It provides model lesson plans for teaching the standards in reading, writing, speaking/listening, and language.

Description: 300 strategies to share with readers in support of thirteen goals -- everything from fluency to literary analysis. Each strategy is cross-linked to skills, genres, and Fountas & Pinnell reading levels to give you just-right teaching, just in time. With Jen's help you'll develop goals for every reader, give students step-by-step strategies for skilled reading, guide readers with prompts aligned to the strategies, adjust instruction to meet individual needs.

Description Breaks the CCSS reading standards into manageable chunks that emphasize engaged, authentic reading and differentiated teaching. For each standard, the text offers: a clear description of what it asks from students, an instructional decision tree that connects assessment to planning, instructional strategies that gradually release responsibility to students, and techniques for intensifying instruction when readers need more support.

This book provides the classroom-tested poems, along with the lessons and strategies needed to help young readers soar. Provides reproducible versions of a collection of enticing poems, along with additional poetry suggestions and teaching ideas to extend mini-lessons. Offers options for differentiation to meet the needs of English Language Learners. Includes mini-lessons designed to supplement core reading instruction or to use for small group instruction. Contains reproducible pages including word sorts for phonics and vocabulary-boosting activities. Incorporates dozens of picture book suggestions for read-alouds. Motivates struggling readers by offering them bite-sized material with which to boost their skills

Grades: 4-8
Description: Activities harness the brevity and potency of poetry for teaching the intricate skills behind writing well in any subject. The 100 poems―set against vivid full-color photographs and graphics on more than 500 slides―serve as a springboard for activities in which students read, discuss, and write to meet the literacy objectives of the Common Core.

Description: Features techniques for teaching writing, complete with tools and tips on how to implement them. Every reminder is a result of his daily effort to solve the problems he faces in his classroom. And each one shows how it is possible to teach all students, as long as they make a genuine effort, to write clear, cohesive prose.

Grades: 4-9
Description: Uses mentor texts by students to teach writing well in any genre. Now, they "hand over their file drawers" and pair 101 student essays with one-page lessons on topics such as how to: choose a structure across genres, extract thesis statement and main points, support points with details, use rhetorical devices and grammatical construction and write from the point of view of a fictional character.

Description: Presents summaries, lesson ideas, grade levels, ISBNs, and publisher information on books useful for teaching elementary and middle school students writing skills; arranges the texts by skill area, including voice, word choice, organization, and sentence fluency.

Grades: 2-6
Description: features 13 innovative writing tips and 30 engaging activities for helping students become better writers. The first part of the book covers writing hints and techniques, while the second half contains core content activities for coaxing the best writing out of your students. A short introductory section lays out the five steps of effective student writing. Lastly, the text reveals how teachers―even those from non-literary backgrounds―can successfully teach and grade writing.

Grades 7-12
Description Features 13 innovative writing tips and 30 engaging activities for helping students become better writers. The first part of the book covers writing hints and techniques, while the second half contains core content activities for coaxing the best writing out of your students. A short introductory section lays out the five steps of effective student writing. Lastly, the text reveals how teachers―even those from non-literary backgrounds―can successfully teach and grade writing.

Description Teachers can easily include fluency strategies in their instructional repertoire without adding hours of preparation time. The new edition of this compact, focused book provides over 30 ready-to-use strategies to help teachers, reading specialists, and other school professionals understand and strengthen fluency instruction for student in regular classrooms, resource rooms, and RTI programs. You'll get specific strategies targeted to six reader types so interventions can be more beneficial to small groups or individual students within RTI programs. Assessments are also included for monitoring students' progress in grades one through eight, along with common questions and answers teachers may have about fluency.

Description: a set of strategies and tools that work effectively across all content areas to support enhanced comprehension and academic success. The strategies have evolved from over a decade of research and classroom observation to provide teachers with multiple avenues for making content accessible and relevant for all students. Each strategy supports teachers in using what students already know as a foundation for integrating new vocabulary and building content-area language skills.

Description: An invaluable collection of research-based activities that enable teachers to match independent practice with students' needs in reading comprehension, fluency, word study, and writing. provides a workable framework that makes setting up the centers and tracking student progress simple. Includes dozens of planning sheets and record-keeping forms in addition to reproducible student pages. Meets Reading First and NCLB guidelines.

Grades: K-12
Description: his resource provides the "nuts and bolts" of differentiation. Presented in an easy-to-implement format, this handy notebook is designed to facilitate the understanding and process of writing differentiated lessons to accommodate all readiness levels, learning styles, and interests. The lessons are based on various differentiation strategies including tiered assignments, tiered graphic organizers, leveled questions, multiple intelligences, leveled learning centers, problem-based learning, independent investigations, and reading buddies.