Invaluable hands-on resources support student-centered teaching and learning.
Includes tools designed to:
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The Complete Responsive Teaching Toolkit includes:
Reproducible Personal Learning Goals Bookmarks promote students' mindfulness and learning engagement by allowing them to set goals independently, with peer coaches, and with teachers.
22 Bookmarks per Grades K-1, 2-3, and 4-5
Constructive Conversation Posters and Cards reinforce the core skills of academic conversation: posing relevant ideas, clarifying and supporting ideas, and evaluating evidence.
4 Poster for Grades K-1, 2-3, and 4-5
42 Cards for Grades K-1 and 2-5
Peer Coaching Menus for Levels A-Z provide collaborative reader response activities for literary and informational texts. Activities incorporate speaking, listening, and writing in a reader's notebook.
• 1 Card per Level for Levels A-M
• 1 Card per Level Range for N-P, Q-S, T-V, and W-Z
The Complete Responsive Teaching Toolkit:
Bridge to Transfer flip charts keep students mindful of a strategy as they bridge from the mini-lesson to small-group instruction and independent reading. Teachers may place the flip chart on the small-group table and/or in the independent reading area.
for Grades K-1, 2-3, and 4-5
Prompts & Tips for Reading Conferences provides strategies and prompts to support all teachers in holding productive and engaging student-centered conferences.
for Grades K-5
Prompting Cards for Scaffolding Readers, developed by Debbie Whitt Jarzombek, provide gradual-release strategies to help teachers observe, monitor, and scaffold students' reading behaviors based on their instructional reading levels.
• 1 Card per Level for Levels A-C
• 2 Cards per Level for Levels D-M
• 2 Cards per Level Range for N-P, Q-S, T-V, and W-Z
Bonus Teacher Support
Essential Professional Resources from Literacy Expert Dr. Adria Klein.
Each module features:
Also available are Customizable Responsive Teaching modules:
Available with purchase of any version of the Responsive Teaching Toolkit. Call the Benchmark Education PD department for a free quote or customized proposal: 1-877-236-2465
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Wiley Blevins, Ed.D., Literacy Consultant
Early reading specialist, taught elementary school in both the United States and South America
Jeff Zwiers, Ed. D.
Senior researcher at Stanford University; co-director of the Academic Language Development Network, focusing on accelerating students’ literacy, language, cognition, and conversation skills
Adria Klein, Ph.D.
Director of a center focused on early literacy intervention at Saint Mary’s College of California
Linda Hoyt, M.A.
Reading specialist, curriculum developer, Title I teacher, staff developer, and Title I District Coordinator
Debbie Whitt Jarzombek, M.Ed.
Educational consultant, literacy professional development specialist, and curriculum development leader
Peter Afflerbach, Ph.D. Professor of Reading in the Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership at the University of Maryland
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