Every Minute Matters [Grades K-5]: 40+ Activities for Literacy-Rich Classroom Transitions

Author:   Molly K. Ness (Fordham University, USA)
Publisher:   SAGE Publications Inc
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9781544382449


Pages:   152
Publication Date:   04 November 2020
Format:   Paperback
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Every Minute Matters [Grades K-5]: 40+ Activities for Literacy-Rich Classroom Transitions


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Forty innovative activities designed to replace seatwork include literacy-rich alternatives for classroom transitions presented alongside research, strategies, and suggestions for improving efficiency and maximizing instructional time.

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Author:   Molly K. Ness (Fordham University, USA)
Publisher:   SAGE Publications Inc
Imprint:   Corwin Press Inc
Weight:   0.550kg
ISBN:  

9781544382449


ISBN 10:   1544382448
Pages:   152
Publication Date:   04 November 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Guide to Literacy-Rich Experiences Acknowledgments Introduction: So Much to Do, So Little Time Activity Walkthrough PART ONE: Thinking Through Instructional Time Time Audits: Why and How Maximize Your Routines and Transition Times Think Flexibly PART TWO: Literacy-Rich Experiences at Your Fingertips Rotate Your Writing Reader’s Notebook Tours Library Love Be a Book Matchmaker “I Wonder” Writing Beach Ball Bonanza Laughing Through Rereadings Read, Record, Reflect Book Tasting Go Fish Concentration Lining Up With Literacy I Spy Category Chain Ghost Writing Build a Word Classroom Charades Telephone Would You Rather? Hink Pinks Human Hungry Hippos Spelling Connect Four Vocabulary Vase Book Pass Parking Lot Sink or Spell Headbands Twister Letter Formation Sight Word Search Letter Tile Table Tower Tumble Checkers A to Z About Sticky Sort Reading Graffiti Jot Lot Wordoodle Wordo Character Cards Categories Character Chats Blackout Poetry Appendix References Index

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Every Minute Matters is a tremendous resource for educators looking to enhance their literacy curriculum and provide purposeful instruction. Dr. Molly Ness has expertly curated an engaging catalog of games and activities to support the development of a child's reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. I've already found a few favorites my students love! -- Gary Wellbrock, PhD Every Minute Matters is loaded with practical activities that teachers can use to insert meaningful literacy instruction into those precious minutes otherwise lost to transitions. But this is so much more than an activity book. It's a guide to reflecting upon how we use our students' most precious resource: time. -- Lauren Prosoff Molly Ness has written a book that belongs in every teacher's hands. Through both cited and her own research, she reminds us of the importance of instructional minutes. Maybe even more important, she challenges readers to consider how they spend their time, and she provides authentic, relevant, and fun activities that are so much more than time fillers. Every activity has a specific purpose and explanation, and she has designed them to fit into and enhance the structure of our students' learning lives. This book is not only valuable and practical for enhancing instruction, it will bring fun and joy into classrooms! -- Melanie Meehan Molly Ness is a fierce advocate for literacy, dedicated to amplifying and improving the learning lives of children everywhere. In Every Minute Matters, Ness continues this vital mission. I greatly appreciate that this smart, practical resource is centered on a common challenge: it often feels like there's never enough time. The included explanation of 'time audits' helps readers prepare to rethink current practices and uncover hidden minutes. Ness then provides forty practical learning routines to make each 'found' minute matter. Perhaps what I most appreciate is the joy and playfulness inherent in each research-supported suggestion! The flexible instructional practices detailed throughout the book are a powerful antidote to worksheets and workbooks. Additionally, in the Minute Mentor feature, Ness points readers in the direction of where they can find more, read more, learn more, and do more. I am confident this multifaceted resource will be well-loved by hardworking educators as they rethink and reimagine the infinite opportunities for meaningful, integrated literacy learning that could be tucked into every day. -- Pamela Koutrakos Have you been looking for sensible ways to enrich and energize your transition times? Stop searching and simply turn these pages! In Every Minute Matters, Molly Ness has carefully curated a menu of literacy-linked ideas that will engage learners and maximize instructional time. Once you start using Ness's ideas, your students will surely be asking for more. -- Maria Walther 'Bell-to-bell teaching' can be full of variety and delight, and Molly Ness offers teachers of all grade levels a huge assist here with her trove of concrete, wide-ranging activities to enhance and lighten the hard work of any class. My favorites are the Reading Graffiti and Sticky Sort, and her conversational style leaves even a seasoned teacher reminded of old favorites like 'Hink Pinks' and recommitted to use every moment we have with our young ones. I will be recommending this book widely. -- Gretchen Bernabei


'Bell-to-bell teaching' can be full of variety and delight, and Molly Ness offers teachers of all grade levels a huge assist here with her trove of concrete, wide-ranging activities to enhance and lighten the hard work of any class. My favorites are the Reading Graffiti and Sticky Sort, and her conversational style leaves even a seasoned teacher reminded of old favorites like 'Hink Pinks' and recommitted to use every moment we have with our young ones. I will be recommending this book widely. -- Gretchen Bernabei Have you been looking for sensible ways to enrich and energize your transition times? Stop searching and simply turn these pages! In Every Minute Matters, Molly Ness has carefully curated a menu of literacy-linked ideas that will engage learners and maximize instructional time. Once you start using Ness's ideas, your students will surely be asking for more. -- Maria Walther Molly Ness is a fierce advocate for literacy, dedicated to amplifying and improving the learning lives of children everywhere. In Every Minute Matters, Ness continues this vital mission. I greatly appreciate that this smart, practical resource is centered on a common challenge: it often feels like there's never enough time. The included explanation of 'time audits' helps readers prepare to rethink current practices and uncover hidden minutes. Ness then provides forty practical learning routines to make each 'found' minute matter. Perhaps what I most appreciate is the joy and playfulness inherent in each research-supported suggestion! The flexible instructional practices detailed throughout the book are a powerful antidote to worksheets and workbooks. Additionally, in the Minute Mentor feature, Ness points readers in the direction of where they can find more, read more, learn more, and do more. I am confident this multifaceted resource will be well-loved by hardworking educators as they rethink and reimagine the infinite opportunities for meaningful, integrated literacy learning that could be tucked into every day. -- Pamela Koutrakos Molly Ness has written a book that belongs in every teacher's hands. Through both cited and her own research, she reminds us of the importance of instructional minutes. Maybe even more important, she challenges readers to consider how they spend their time, and she provides authentic, relevant, and fun activities that are so much more than time fillers. Every activity has a specific purpose and explanation, and she has designed them to fit into and enhance the structure of our students' learning lives. This book is not only valuable and practical for enhancing instruction, it will bring fun and joy into classrooms! -- Melanie Meehan Every Minute Matters is loaded with practical activities that teachers can use to insert meaningful literacy instruction into those precious minutes otherwise lost to transitions. But this is so much more than an activity book. It's a guide to reflecting upon how we use our students' most precious resource: time. -- Lauren Prosoff Every Minute Matters is a tremendous resource for educators looking to enhance their literacy curriculum and provide purposeful instruction. Dr. Molly Ness has expertly curated an engaging catalog of games and activities to support the development of a child's reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. I've already found a few favorites my students love! -- Gary Wellbrock, PhD


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Molly Ness is an associate professor at Fordham University’s Graduate School of Education.  She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Johns Hopkins University, and earned her PhD in Reading Education from the University of Virginia.  Her research focuses on reading comprehension instruction, the instructional decisions and beliefs of preservice and inservice teachers, and the assessment and diagnosis of struggling readers.  A former Teach For America corps member, she is an experienced classroom teacher.  She is the author of Lessons to Learn: Voices from the Front Lines of Teach For America (Routledge Falmer, 2004).  Her research has been published in national and international peer-reviewed journals including The Reading Teacher, Educational Leadership, Reading Horizons, Journal of Reading Education, Reading Psychology, and Journal of Research in Childhood Education.  She is an active member of the following professional organizations: Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers (ALER), National Council of the Teachers of English (NCTE), Literacy Research Association (LRA), International Reading Association (IRA), Professors of Reading Teacher Educators, Organization of Teacher Educators in Reading, and Phi Delta Kappa.  Her book, The Question is the Answer, was published in 2015 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

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