Attack of the Chicken Nugget Man isn't a typical children’s book. It is highly engaging, educational, and driven by standards. Standards are course concepts approved by a state’s board of education and/or public instruction agency. They are the skills and concepts taught and tested in schools. This book covers third grade concepts from the official Georgia, New York, North Carolina, and California curriculum standards documents.
Teachers are experts at delivering standards-driven instruction, but standards should not just be taught at school. To help you teach standards at home, you'll see tiny subscripts next to sentences (e.g., M17) throughout this book. The subscripts correlate to a table of referenced standards at the end of the book. If your child is struggling to answer questions encountered in the book that relate to a particular standard, tell the teacher the standard number and description. Children aren’t going to master standards just by reading this book. The references to standards are, as we call it in education, teachable moments. It is up to you to discuss the referenced standards with children, ask follow-up questions, and to check for understanding.
Written by an experienced educator, this book was designed to exemplify the principles of instructional best practices, strategic reading, and subject integration. Most books take on the “read first, ask questions later” mentality. Comprehension questions don't create strategic readers. Strategic reading creates strategic readers.
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Teachers are experts at delivering standards-driven instruction, but standards should not just be taught at school. To help you teach standards at home, you'll see tiny subscripts next to sentences (e.g., M17) throughout this book. The subscripts correlate to a table of referenced standards at the end of the book. If your child is struggling to answer questions encountered in the book that relate to a particular standard, tell the teacher the standard number and description. Children aren’t going to master standards just by reading this book. The references to standards are, as we call it in education, teachable moments. It is up to you to discuss the referenced standards with children, ask follow-up questions, and to check for understanding.
Written by an experienced educator, this book was designed to exemplify the principles of instructional best practices, strategic reading, and subject integration. Most books take on the “read first, ask questions later” mentality. Comprehension questions don't create strategic readers. Strategic reading creates strategic readers.
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