Daily Five, The (Paperback)

by Gail Boushey (Author), Joan Moser (Author)

Textbook Details
* Paperback: 136 pages
* Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers; 1 edition (January 1, 2006)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 1571104291
* ISBN-13: 978-1571104298
* Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.4 inches
* Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
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Textbook Description
Do you love teaching but feel exhausted from the energy you expend cajoling, disciplining, and directing students on a daily basis? If so, you’ll want to meet “The Sisters”, Gail Boushey and Joan Moser. Based on literacy learning and motivation research, they created a structure called The Daily Five which has been practiced and refined in their own classrooms for ten years, and shared with thousands of teachers throughout the United States. The Daily Five is a series of literacy tasks (reading to self, reading with someone, writing, word work, and listening to reading) which students complete daily while the teacher meets with small groups or confers with individuals.

This book not only explains the philosophy behind the structure, but shows you how to carefully and systematically train your students to participate in each of the five components.

Explicit modeling practice, reflecting and refining take place during the launching phase, preparing the foundation for a year of meaningful content instruction tailored to meet the needs of each child.

The Daily Five is more than a management system or a curriculum framework; it is a structure that will help students develop the habits that lead to a lifetime of independent literacy.

The Daily Five Review
The ideas and lesson procedures discussed in this book are very beneficial to teachers who incorporate balanced literacy components throughout their daily curriculum decisions. The discussion of muscle memory and how to build the students’ stamina for longer periods of independent work are clearly laid out for the reader. A sample schedule that shows how to include daily lessons in the beginning weeks of school to build this stamina are detailed in the appendix. I would recommend this book for any teacher who wants to improve students’ independent work time.

This book is a wonderful resource for any teacher who has wondered what the other kids will be doing while you have reading conferences or small group instruction during your literacy block. Step by step, detailed lessons for the first 5 weeks of school will get your students working independently WITHOUT the need for you to create and plan an endless menu of center activities. The students will be doing what we need them to do most – reading and writing! This is a quick and easy read, with lots of classroom examples, and lessons for teaching your students to be independent withing the first 5 weeks of school. Get this book!

I am a first grade teacher and wanted to improve my literacy program by getting away from using worksheets during centers. This book offers great practical ideas including lessons and charts to use for “reading to self”, “reading to someone” and “listening to reading” which I will implement in my classroom. I currently have a fairly successful Writer’s Workshop and do a lot of making words activities but the book offers ideas in these areas as well. So many books just deal with concepts of literacy but this one breaks the teaching procedures into easily followed steps that I am excited about trying out with my next group of students. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is looking to create an authentic learning atmosphere in a classroom and get away from a “packaged” curriculum so every student can work at their reading/writing level independently.

I purchased this book and read it within a few hours. This book is cleary written, conscise, not full of jargon, and truly written for the classroom teacher to implement effectively. I teach 1st grade and can easily transition my students into this routine. The authors offer practical advice regarding teaching of behaviors, management, assessment, and references for further reading and research. What a refreshing change from dense, heady teacher-reading! An ASSET to any professional library (literacy teacher or elementary teacher).

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Research in Education: Evidence Based Inquiry (6th Edition) (Hardcover)

by Jim H. McMillan (Author), Sally Schumacher (Author)

Textbook Details
* Hardcove: 544 pages
* Publisher: Allyn & Bacon; 6 edition (May 23, 2005)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0205455301
* ISBN-13: 978-0205455300
* Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.7 x 1 inches
* Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
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Textbook Description
This substantially revised text, with a new title to emphasize evidence-based inquiry, provides a comprehensive, highly accessible, and student friendly introduction to the principles, concepts, and methods currently used in educational research. This text provides a balanced combination of quantitative and qualitative methods and enables students to master skills in reading, understanding, critiquing, and conducting research. Many examples and article excerpts are used throughout the text to demonstrate and highlight best practices in educational research. Evidence-based inquiry is emphasized in two ways: (1) Introductory chapters focus on the added importance of data driven decision-making, (2) Methodological chapters (9, 10, 12-15) provide explicit guidelines for conducting empirical studies.

New to This Edition:
* Substantial revision of all chapters with greater depth of coverage to present the most current and useful content available in educational research.
* A new chapter that covers mixed-method, secondary analysis, and action research. Both mixed-method and secondary analysis studies are becoming more frequent, and many students find themselves conducting action research. This chapter provides an introduction to these three approaches.
* Four new complete research articles that facilitate student understanding of different types of studies and provide examples to critique.
* Expanded coverage of experimental validity and randomized designs, including statistical conclusion and construct validity.
* Coverage of contemporary topics that students need to know because of their increased usage in the literature, including web-based surveys, logistic regression, and SEM.
* New instructional aids, including expanded application exercises at the end of each chapter and new Misconceptions verses Evidence boxes to show the utility of research.
* Substantial revision of Chapter 4 to reflect changes in ERIC so that students can use this popular database effectively.
* Greater emphasis on contemporary evaluation designs.
* New appendix on writing research articles to assist students in communicating their research. Marginal icons and keywords are included to guide readers to pertinent articles in the Research Navigator database.
* Instructor’s Manual/Test Bank, PowerPoint™ Presentations, and Companion Website (www.ablongman.com/mcmillanschumacher6e) coordinated by the authors are available to adopters.

Research in Education Review
I only bought this because I needed it for grad. school. It’s tough reading.