Every Minute Matters [Grades K-5]

40+ Activities for Literacy-Rich Classroom Transitions
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-5443-8244-9
Verlag: Sage Publications

Buch, Englisch, 152 Seiten, Format (B × H): 213 mm x 277 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Corwin Literacy

Make the most of every instructional minute with engaging literacy activities

Time—or lack thereof—may be the most precious commodity in the classroom. From covering all the necessary curriculum and imparting life skills to attending meetings and answering emails, educators are faced with real challenges when there never seems to be enough time to do it all. Although teachers don’t have the power to create more minutes in the school day, they do have the power to be effective and efficient with the time given.

Molly Ness asks teachers first to examine their use of time in the classroom in order to make more space for literacy. She then introduces 40 innovative activities designed to replace seatwork. These literacy-rich alternatives for classroom transitions are presented alongside
- Research on instructional time in K–5 classrooms

- Strategies for how to maximize every minute of instruction
- Suggestions for improving efficiency to expand independent reading and writing time
- Reflective practices to help teachers examine how they use the time they have

The instructional day is ripe for redesign with a thoughtful and authentic time audit. Every Minute Matters guides educators through that process by outlining literacy-rich activities to optimize transitional times and minimize lost instructional minutes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ness, Molly K

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Erwachsenenbildung, lebenslanges Lernen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Guide to Literacy-Rich Experiences
Acknowledgments
Introduction: So Much to Do, So Little Time
Activity Walkthrough
PART ONE: Thinking Through Instructional Time
Time Audits: Why and How
Maximize Your Routines and Transition Times
Think Flexibly
PART TWO: Literacy-Rich Experiences at Your Fingertips
Rotate Your Writing
Reader’s Notebook Tours
Library Love
Be a Book Matchmaker
“I Wonder” Writing
Beach Ball Bonanza
Laughing Through Rereadings
Read, Record, Reflect
Book Tasting
Go Fish
Concentration
Lining Up With Literacy
I Spy
Category Chain
Ghost Writing
Build a Word
Classroom Charades
Telephone
Would You Rather?
Hink Pinks
Human Hungry Hippos
Spelling Connect Four
Vocabulary Vase
Book Pass
Parking Lot
Sink or Spell
Headbands
Twister
Letter Formation
Sight Word Search
Letter Tile Table
Tower Tumble
Checkers
A to Z About
Sticky Sort
Reading Graffiti
Jot Lot
Wordoodle
Wordo
Character Cards
Categories
Character Chats
Blackout Poetry
Appendix
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ness, Molly K
Molly Ness is an associate professor at Fordham University’s Graduate School of Education. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Johns Hopkins University, and earned her PhD in Reading Education from the University of Virginia. Her research focuses on reading comprehension instruction, the instructional decisions and beliefs of preservice and inservice teachers, and the assessment and diagnosis of struggling readers. A former Teach For America corps member, she is an experienced classroom teacher. She is the author of Lessons to Learn: Voices from the Front Lines of Teach For America (Routledge Falmer, 2004). Her research has been published in national and international peer-reviewed journals including The Reading Teacher, Educational Leadership, Reading Horizons, Journal of Reading Education, Reading Psychology, and Journal of Research in Childhood Education. She is an active member of the following professional organizations: Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers (ALER), National Council of the Teachers of English (NCTE), Literacy Research Association (LRA), International Reading Association (IRA), Professors of Reading Teacher Educators, Organization of Teacher Educators in Reading, and Phi Delta Kappa. Her book, The Question is the Answer, was published in 2015 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.