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All On-Your-Feet Guide orders receive FREE SHIPPING! Use code SHIPOYFG at check out.What happens when students compose discussion questions and take turns maintaining the momentum of a discussion? Deeper engagement, motivation, and collaboration.Student-led discussions allow students to practice teamwork, critical thinking, clarifying ideas and communicating them to peers. They become active listeners, refine and improve their use of language, and develop higher order analysis, synthesis, and inference skills.This On-Your-Feet Guide will help teachers:·        Create a structure for effective student-led conversations·        Focus on specific strategies that increase engagement and participation·        Generate essential questions that lead to deeper discussions·        Deliver prompts for keeping discussions moving forward·        Trouble-shoot and scaffold learners through specific conversational "tricky spots"Use this on-your-feet guide to coach your students toward meaningful discussions that enhance literacy learning and increase engagement.  On-Your-Feet Guides (OYFGs) provide you with the ultimate "cheat sheet" to implement effective change in your classroom while in the moment of teaching. Designed for accessibility, and providing step-by-step guidance, the OYFGs are written by experts who take research-based practices and make them doable for the busy teacher. Each On-Your-Feet Guide is laminated, 8.5"x11" tri-fold (6 pages), and 3-hole punched. Use the On-Your-Feet Guides- When you know the "what" but need help with the "how" - As a quick reference to support a practice you learned in a PD workshop or book- To learn how to implement foundational practices- When you want to help your students learn a specific strategy, routine, or approach, but aren¿t sure how to do it yourself

All On-Your-Feet Guide orders receive FREE SHIPPING! Use code SHIPOYFG at check out. Although data meetings, data walls, and data folders are common structures schools use to better understand the needs of their students, kidwatching - a term coined by Yetta Goodman in the 1980s that carries significant weight today - provides the purest form of student data and significantly impacts our decision making. Kidwatching is critical to a student-centered classroom. When we kidwatch, we observe students, taking notes on what we see students doing and hear them talking about. We analyze our kidwatching data to find patterns over time. This On-Your-Feet Guide provides:A clear protocol for deeper observations, evidence collection, and inquiries about your studentsGuidance on developing a personal, practical system for observing and taking notes Lists of questions to guide your observations and data collection throughout the day, in whole- and small-group time and during individual work timeLinks to two downloadable templates for capturing kidwatching notesFormative assessment ideas that allow students to make their thinking and understanding visibleUse the strategies in this on-your-feet guide to make instructional decisions based on students' interests, strengths, and challenges. On-Your-Feet Guides (OYFGs) provide you with the ultimate "cheat sheet" to implement effective change in your classroom while in the moment of teaching. Designed for accessibility, and providing step-by-step guidance, the OYFGs are written by experts who take research-based practices and make them doable for the busy teacher. Each On-Your-Feet Guide is laminated, 8.5"x11" tri-fold (6 pages), and 3-hole punched. Use the On-Your-Feet Guides* When you know the "what" but need help with the "how"* As a quick reference to support a practice you learned in a PD workshop or book* To learn how to implement foundational practices* When you want to help your students learn a specific strategy, routine, or approach, but aren't sure how to do it yourself

All On-Your-Feet Guide orders receive FREE SHIPPING! Use code SHIPOYFG at check out.In this easy-to-use but comprehensive guide to Interactive Writing, teachers will learn what interactive writing is, how to prepare before, during and after interactive writing, and how to assess it.In this On-Your-Feet Guide, teachers will find: A list of teaching points or purposes that you might address during your interactive writing lessons If-Then chart that helps you troubleshoot common problems in implementation Lessons for both K-2 and 3-5, complete with teaching language and what the student does in each part of the lesson On-Your-Feet Guides (OYFGs) provide you with the ultimate "cheat sheet" to implement effective change in your classroom while in the moment of teaching. Designed for accessibility, and providing step-by-step guidance, the OYFGs are written by experts who take research-based practices and make them doable for the busy teacher.Each On-Your-Feet Guide is laminated, 8.5"x11" tri-fold (6 pages), and 3-hole punched.Use the On-Your-Feet Guides When you know the "what" but need help with the "how" As a quick reference to support a practice you learned in a PD workshop or book To learn how to implement foundational practices When you want to help your students learn a specific strategy, routine, or approach, but aren¿t sure how to do it yourself

All On-Your-Feet Guide orders receive FREE SHIPPING! Use code SHIPOYFG at check out.In this easy-to-use but comprehensive guide to Interactive Read-Alouds, teachers will learn what they are, how to prepare before, during and after an Interactive Read-Aloud, and how to assess it. In this On-Your-Feet Guide, teachers will find: Lesson outline included with "What the teacher says/does and What the student does displayed side-by-side. An If-Then chart that helps teachers troubleshoot common problems. Both the why and the how of assessing students included. On-Your-Feet Guides (OYFGs) provide you with the ultimate "cheat sheet" to implement effective change in your classroom while in the moment of teaching. Designed for accessibility, and providing step-by-step guidance, the OYFGs are written by experts who take research-based practices and make them doable for the busy teacher.Each On-Your-Feet Guide is laminated, 8.5"x11" tri-fold (6 pages), and 3-hole punched.Use the On-Your-Feet Guides When you know the "what" but need help with the "how" As a quick reference to support a practice you learned in a PD workshop or book To learn how to implement foundational practices When you want to help your students learn a specific strategy, routine, or approach, but aren¿t sure how to do it yourself