"Barron's early achiever workbooks provide a hands-on learning experience tailored to grade-level skills. Meet and exceed learning goals in reading and writing! [Includes] fun interactive activities for comprehension and practice, helpful tips, glossaries, and examples to support learning, [and] multiple reading genres and writing exercises"--Back cover.

"Barron's early achiever workbooks provide a hands-on learning experience tailored to grade-level skills. Meet and exceed learning goals in reading and writing! [Includes] fun interactive activities for comprehension and practice, helpful tips, glossaries, and examples to support learning, [and] multiple reading genres and writing exercises"--Back cover.

Prepare your child for a bright future with Barron's Early Achiever Workbooks. Each workbook provides a hands-on learning experience tailored to grade-level skills. Barron’s Early Achiever: Grade 3 English Language Arts Workbook is an ideal resource to supplement learning in the classroom, at home, for learning pods, or for homeschooling. Inside you’ll find: Fun, interactive activities for reading comprehension and writing practice Helpful tips, glossaries, and easy-to-understand examples to support learning Multiple reading genres and writing exercises, including independent journal writing.

"Barron's early achiever workbooks provide a hands-on learning experience tailored to grade-level skills. Meet and exceed learning goals in reading and writing! [Includes] fun interactive activities for comprehension and practice, helpful tips, glossaries, and examples to support learning, [and] multiple reading genres and writing exercises"--Back cover.

"Barron's early achiever workbooks provide a hands-on learning experience tailored to grade-level skills. Meet and exceed learning goals in math! Fun interactive activities for comprehension and practice. Helpful tips and examples to support learning. Multiple step-by-step problem-solving exercises."--

In Learning Targets, Connie M. Moss and Susan M. Brookhart contend that improving student learning and achievement happens in the immediacy of an individual lesson--what they call "today's lesson"—or it doesn't happen at all. The key to making today's lesson meaningful? Learning targets. Written from students' point of view, a learning target describes a lesson-sized chunk of information and skills that students will come to know deeply. Each lesson's learning target connects to the next lesson's target, enabling students to master a coherent series of challenges that ultimately lead to important curricular standards. Drawing from the authors' extensive research and professional learning partnerships with classrooms, schools, and school districts, this practical book - Situates learning targets in a theory of action that students, teachers, principals, and central-office administrators can use to unify their efforts to raise student achievement and create a culture of evidence-based, results-oriented practice. - Provides strategies for designing learning targets that promote higher-order thinking and foster student goal setting, self-assessment, and self-regulation. - Explains how to design a strong performance of understanding, an activity that produces evidence of students' progress toward the learning target. - Shows how to use learning targets to guide summative assessment and grading. Learning Targets also includes reproducible planning forms, a classroom walk-through guide, a lesson-planning process guide, and guides to teacher and student self-assessment. What students are actually doing during today's lesson is both the source of and the yardstick for school improvement efforts. By applying the insights in this book to your own work, you can improve your teaching expertise and dramatically empower all students as stakeholders in their own learning.

Too often, students who fail a grade or a course receive remediation that ends up widening rather than closing achievement gaps. According to veteran classroom teacher and educational consultant Suzy Pepper Rollins, the true answer to supporting struggling students lies in acceleration. In Learning in the Fast Lane, she lays out a plan of action that teachers can use to immediately move underperforming students in the right direction and differentiate instruction for all learners—even those who excel academically. This essential guide identifies eight high-impact, research-based instructional approaches that will help you * Make standards and learning goals explicit to students. * Increase students' vocabulary—a key to their academic success. * Build students' motivation and self-efficacy so that they become active, optimistic participants in class. * Provide rich, timely feedback that enables students to improve when it counts. * Address skill and knowledge gaps within the context of new learning. Students deserve no less than the most effective strategies available. These hands-on, ready-to-implement practices will enable you to provide all students with compelling, rigorous, and engaging learning experiences.