Invitations : Changing as Teachers and Learners K-12

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Summary: Excellent resource!
Review: I am a former teacher-turned-stay-at-home-mom and I find myself referring to my tattered book over and over again.

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Summary: A must for all teachers
Review: Routman's user friendly guide is well written, easy to understand and extremely practical to use. It has made me reflect on my teaching techniques in a whole new way and I now think and rethink what I do and why I do it. I have seen my at-risk students gain success using the program and I have seen my other students feel a love of reading and writing because of the techniques I learned. It does work.

Some say that whole language is a fraud and that it doesn't work. That is truly unfortunate. It has gotten a bad rap because many people assume that whole language ignores the skills. I taught phonics in my classroom and it was a whole language classroom. Phonics are necessary but just not the only thing necessary and this book helps you to find the other parts of a good literacy program!

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Summary: Great resource to learn strategies to teach students
Review: The book is a great resource for teachers. It provides step-by-step techniques to help you teach different strategies to students in the area of language arts. Many of the techniques can also be used with other disciplines. One technique is called the KWL. It allows students to participate and to critically think. K=what do you know? W=what do you want to know L=what did you learn? Using this technique, it will teach students' strategies such as using their prior knowlege and predictions. The book also includes pictures and numerous examples to guide you. It promotes cooperative learning and draws from the interest of the students. The book also provides a variety of different techniques to reach students of all ability levels.