Best Selling Books by Char Forsten

Differentiated Instruction, Second Edition Different Strategies for Different Learners Lori Elliott, Char Forsten, Jim Grant & Betty Hollas This new, expanded edition includes 119 low-cost, high-impact, ready-to-implement strategies to help you build community, assess on the fly, find new pathways to mastery in literacy and math, use technology to differentiate, and much more. Reproducibles included.

Research shows that teachers are asking students far too many literal questions, while state and national assessments are increasingly focused on questions that require higher levels of thinking. So that students can improve their own inquiry and comprehension skills, teachers also need to sharpen their questioning. QAR is a comprehension strategy that can help translate into success on assessments and all tasks that require deeper thinking. The accompanying CD-ROM contains over forty pages of reproducible.

Shows how to motivate your students as they are confronted with text which is generally written in a less-than-engaging expository style. Shows you how to teach the child, not the textbook

Celebrates educators and their creativity in turning everyday objects - beach balls, Venetian blinds, rotten fruits and vegetables, PVC pipes, to name a few - into practical, fun, hands-on teaching supplies and learning tools.

This innovative and creative book gives young children a variety of interactive opportunities to learn, practice, and master early math concepts and skills in a language-based setting. Using fanciful illustrations of nursery rhymes and thematic scenes, you will be able to: engage young children in fun but focused discussions; inspire them to create and share their own math stories; establish home-school connections so children can "talk math" with parents and siblings; differentiate instruction and scaffold content for diverse learners. Filled with B&W illustrations as well as 20 full-color transparencies, this appealing book is ideal for remedial second-graders and English language learners, too! Grades PreK-1. --amazon.com.

Looping is an instructional design whereby students progress to the next grade level with the same teacher(s) for two or more years. This book was designed to help teachers and administrators explore, implement, and evaluate looping programs. The book is divided into four parts. Part 1, "Exploring Looping Configurations," identifies the primary components of looping, the reasons for its implementation, and the kinds of instructional practices commonly associated with it. Part 2, "Implementing Looping Configurations," provides guidelines for steps to consider when planning instruction. Part 3, "Evaluating Looping Configurations," presents tips for establishing an evaluation process for a looping instructional design and clarifies which elements need evaluation and how results should be shared, used, and reported. Part 4, "Support Pages," directs readers to specific resources for obtaining additional information regarding specific topics concerning the looping classroom and includes reproducible forms and sample surveys, letters, questionnaires, and charts. (KB)