Download or read book Teachers' Guide written by Tony Doyle and published by Nelson Thornes. This book was released on 2001 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The PM Teacher's Guide Ruby Level provides suggestions for small-group teaching using the twelve chapter books, six non-fiction titles and the anthology of fiction, non fiction and poetry. Each set of teachers notes includes: ' suggested activities for two teaching sessions with a target group, in which the teacher guides the children to read for meaning and to develop appropriate reading strategies and responses; ' suggested focuses for one or more independent reading sessions during which the children complete the reading of the book; ' blackline masters for each title or anthology piece which are designed to focus the children's attention on and provide practice in specific reading and writing skills and knowledge; ' computer task center activity cards for each title which are designed to develop the children's information and technology skills in the content of a language activity; The teachers' guide also provides weekly timetables which demonstrate two ways of organising the classroom for small group teaching.