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Books with author Brian Richardson

  • Scholastic Professional The Next Step Forward in Guided Reading

    Jan Richardson

    Spiral-bound (SCHOLASTIC TEACHING RESOURCES, Aug. 4, 2016)
    In this resource-rich book, you'll find: All the planning and instructional tools you need to teach guided reading well, from pre-A to fluent, organized around Richardson's proven Assess-Decide-Guide framework. Prompts, discussion starters, teaching points, word lists, intervention suggestions, and more to support all students, including dual language learners and struggling readers. 29 comprehension modules that cover essential strategies—monitoring, retelling, inferring, summarizing, and many others. Plus an online resource bank with dozens of downloadable assessment and record-keeping forms, Richardson's all-new, stage-specific lesson plan templates. More than 40 short videos showing Jan modeling key parts of guided reading lessons for every stage.
  • The Guided Reading Teacher's Companion: Prompts, Discussion Starters & Teaching Points

    Jan Richardson, Richardson Jan Richardson

    Paperback (Scholastic Professional, July 16, 2016)
    In this convenient flip-chart guide, you can easily find prompts, discussion starters, and teaching points to use when you want students to process more effectively, think more deeply, and express their ideas more thoughtfully. The self-standing guide with sturdy pages makes it convenient to use while working with small groups. Instantly, you can use these tools as starting points for in-depth inquiry based on behaviors you’re noticing in students. There are also recommendations on how to revise them as necessary to meet every reader’s needs.
  • Night Visions: Searching the Shadows of Advent and Christmas

    Jan Richardson

    Hardcover (Wanton Gospeller Press, Dec. 31, 2010)
    New release of a popular favorite! As so many have found, this beloved companion for the season of Advent and Christmas is a treasure to return to year after year. Jan Richardson's original artwork, reflections, poetry, and prayers draw the reader into the quiet spaces of an often-frenzied season. Beautifully designed with color artwork throughout, Night Visions beckons us to encounter the God who dwells in darkness as well as in daylight.
  • The Next Step Forward in Guided Reading book + The Guided Reading Teacher's Companion

    Jan Richardson

    Spiral-bound (Scholastic Professional, Nov. 9, 2016)
    In this resource-rich book and teacher’s prompting guide, you’ll find:- All the planning and instructional tools you need to teach guided reading well, from pre-A to fluent, organized around Richardson’s proven Assess-Decide-Guide framework. - Prompts, discussion starters, teaching points, word lists, intervention suggestions, and more to support all students, including dual language learners and struggling readers. - 29 comprehension modules that cover essential strategies―monitoring, retelling, inferring, summarizing, and many others. - Plus an online resource bank with dozens of downloadable assessment and record-keeping forms, Richardson’s all-new, stage-specific lesson plan templates.- More than 40 short videos showing Jan modeling key parts of guided reading lessons for every stage.- A handy flip-chart guide with prompts, discussion starters, and teaching points for use during guided reading to inform your next step forward.
  • In Wisdom's Path: Discovering the Sacred in Every Season

    Jan Richardson

    Hardcover (Wanton Gospeller Press, Dec. 15, 2012)
    This perennial favorite is now available in a beautiful hardcover edition! Known for her distinctive intertwining of word and image, artist and author Jan Richardson (Night Visions, In the Sanctuary of Women) returns to the rhythms of the sacred year, offering a compelling book of reflections, prayers, poetry, and art that invites us to notice the presence of God in each season. From the "Cave of the Heart" in Advent through the "Daily Way" of Ordinary Time, In Wisdom's Path serves as a companion in our search for the sacred. Richardson's evocative full-color artwork appears throughout.
  • Steve Square Head: Mooshroom Misadventures Part I

    Brian Richardson, Ai Richardson

    language (, March 6, 2016)
    Deep under ground mining for gold our square headed hero is ambushed by Dave, a zombie with gourmet tastes.
  • The Next Step in Guided Reading: Focused Assessments and Targeted Lessons for Helping Every Student Become a Better Reader

    Jan Richardson

    Paperback (Scholastic Teaching Resources (Theory an, June 1, 2009)
    Focused Assessments and Targeted Lessons for Helping Every Student Become a Better Reader\n\nBy Jan Richardson\n\nTeachers facing the challenge of meeting the diverse reading needs of students will find the structure and tools they need in Jan Richardson's powerful approach to guided reading. Richardson has identified the essential components of an effective guided reading lesson: targeted assessments, data analysis that pinpoints specific strategies students need, and the use of guided writing to support the reading process. Best of all, Richardson provides detailed lessons for readers at all grade levels and at all reading stages from emergent through proficient.\n\n288 pages 8 1/2" x 11"\nGrades K-8
  • The First Step: the Story of a Girl Who Wanted to Dance

    Jean Richardson

    Paperback (HarperCollins Publishers, Jan. 13, 1994)
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  • The Next Step Forward in Guided Reading: An Assess-Decide-Guide Framework for Supporting Every Reader

    Jan Richardson

    eBook (Scholastic Teaching Resources, July 22, 2016)
    Jan Richardson's latest thinking on Guided Reading helps teachers take the next step forward to pinpoint instruction that supports every reader. Richardson uses the Assess-Decide-Guide framework to take a deep dive into each guided reading stage, covering PreA to Fluent readers, their needs, and the best ways to support and challenge them. A master reading teacher at all levels, Richardson skillfully addresses all the factors that make or break guided reading lessons: support for striving readers, strategies for reaching ELLs, making home-school connections--all with an unwavering focus on reading for deeper comprehension, to develop thoughtful, independent readers. The book includes dozens of must-have record-keeping, assessment, and reference forms, as well as how-to video links that provide show Jan in action with diverse readers.
  • Little Wings Big Dreams: Believe and Achieve

    Brian Richardson, Rick Knowles

    eBook
    If you want your child to learn about confidence and friendship, this is the book for you. Once the story begins you will embark on a journey of friendship between two beautifully illustrated characters. As their journey unfolds they begin to teach the reader a lesson about why confidence is so important in helping us achieve our dreams. Basil a young bee who doesn't know how to fly lacks confidence and is approached by a beautiful butterfly named Bella. Bella is a very flamboyant character who saves the day while teaching Basil some very important life lessons.
  • Devil's Footsteps

    E.E. Richardson

    eBook (Laurel Leaf, March 25, 2009)
    Bryan was 10 when his brother, Adam, just . . . disappeared. That was five years ago, and now Bryan is the only one who seems to remember what happened. Until he meets two others with their own unsolved mysteries. It seems that Adam isn’t the first to disappear. Someone or something is after the kids in their neighborhood. The adults can’t hear it, and they can’t see it or feel it—but the kids can. And it all comes back to the skipping rhyme that every child in town knows by heart . . . and the Dark Man who haunts everyone’s worst nightmares—while they’re awake.
  • New York City Guide: Chinese, Spanish and English

    R.G. Richardson

    eBook (RGR Publishing, June 21, 2015)
    New York Interactive City Guide-Chinese, Spanish and English.Interactive City Guides searching in multiple languages. Job search, interactive notes, dictionaries, shopping and real estate guides.Using the power of the internet this guide is all about 9900 preset searches keeping you up to date about your city. Rolling out in 2020 with 8 search engines and 9900 links using your browser in over 10 different languages; point and click that's it! You can now avoid spelling mistakes and language difficulties making this guide simple enough for everybody to use. Simply click the icon, your search is done, read everything you want to know and it is never out of date.These guides have extensive hotel and restaurant search; not to mention real estate, shopping, job and employment opportunities available in the guides. Sit in the coffee shop and start searching away on their WiFi and start using our interactive city search guides and brochures with multiple languages! For PC, Mac, Pad, or iPhone or mobile phone enabled search tool with multi-search engine capability built right in.This guide searches for food, hotels, real estate, historical sites, sports, concerts, even public toilets and water closets and everything that’s fun to do; with travel planning, maps and transportation. Good for tourists, travellers, vacationers, people who have just moved to town, and even long term residents who want to stay on top of what’s new and current in their area or city.These guides are great for those with disabilities!New updated Interactive Notes and Glossaries for Economics, Financial, Markets, Money and Banking.Search translation in Chinese, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Indian, Portuguese and Japanese!Updated December 2019 R.G. Richardson City Guides using the power of the internet.