The Common Core Guidebook: Informational Text Lessons, Guided Practice, Suggested Book Lists, and Reproducible Organizers, Grades 3-5

by Rozlyn Linder

This book is the essential resource for anyone teaching students in grades 3-5 to navigate informational text. Based on Rozlyn’s popular Common Core workshops, this guide walks you through each informational text reading standard, aligns each standard to research-based strategies, and explicitly shows you how to introduce and model those strategies in your classroom. Filled with practical techniques, anchor charts, reproducible graphic organizers, and suggested text lists, this indispensable guide helps teachers meet the demands of the Common Core informational text standards. Also The Common Core Guidebook, 6-8.

234 pages, Paperback

First published July 15, 2013

About the author

Rozlyn Linder, Ph.D., is a highly sought after presenter and educational blogger. Known for her energetic, fast-paced seminars and workshops, she has collaborated with teachers across the nation at national and state conferences on literacy. An award-winning teacher, she has taught at all levels from elementary through college and served as a reading coach, district School Improvement Specialist, and assistant principal, and college adjunct English instructor. She specializes in explicit instruction and standards-based classrooms. Rozlyn lives in the Buckhead area of Atlanta, Georgia with her two daughters and husband. You can interact with her online at www.rozlinder.com.