The Pathways for Learning book series is a resource of visual organizers designed to assist students, and those working with them, in organizing language for academic success. The contents found within these books were inspired from our actual learning experiences with children. The Pathways for Learning series provides visual organizers that, when coupled with cognitive mediation strategies, can be used as tools to facilitate comprehension and recall of oral and written language experiences across academic areas including vocabulary and concept development, grammar and writing, literature, and classroom content.
Pathways for Learning I
An outstanding resource of VISUAL ORGANIZERS that helps children better recognize the predictable patterns within classroom language experiences.
This resource provides visual organizers for use with:
- Vocabulary and Concept Development
- Associations
- Categories
- Multiple Meaning Words
- Analogies
- Compare/Contrast
- Cause and Effect
- Literature note taking and comprehension: Organizing
- Story Details, Main Ideas, Story Sequence and Chapter Summaries
- Story Elements: Characterizations, Setting, Conflict, Theme Analysis, Context and Significance
- Classroom Content: Lesson Preview/Review, Topic/Lesson Summary, Outlining Notes, Unit/Chapter/Lesson Connections/Current Events, Historical People/Event Outlines, Geography Themes, Biography
- Only $39.95
Pathways for Learning II
A great follow-up to Pathways for Learning I. Provides new visual organizers for classroom learning and organization. Assignment notebook templates provide cognitive cues so homework is written down, brought home, and completed.
This resource provides visual organizers for use with:
- Sequencing and Concept Development
- Literature Analysis and Conceptualization
- Poetry Analysis
- Figurative Language
- Critical Thinking
- Visual Scheduling
- Assignment Notebook Templates
- Organizers for Tracking Student Progress
- Organizers for Teacher Planning
- Only $39.95
Pathways for Grammar & Writing
A wonderful supplement for children learning grammatical structures and paragraph writing. Organizers for explicit teaching of narrative and expository forms can be an excellent way to reinforce written language development.
This resource provides visual organizers for use with:
- Parts of Speech
- Sentence Structure
- Paragraph Writing
- Narrative Writing
- Expository Writing
- Steps to Writing
- Steps to Editing
- Only $41.95
Pathways for Social Reasoning
Pathways for Social Reasoning & Problem Solving: An excellent resource for everyday social reasoning experiences. Using visual organizers can make problem solving about social experiences more concrete and visually explicit while identifying important language skills and concepts.
This resource provides visual organizers for use with:
- Identifying Feelings and Ranges of Emotion
- Increasing Self Awareness
- Improving Attention, Focus, Topic Maintenance,
- Frustration Tolerance
- Cause and Effect Reasoning
- Situational Problem Solving
- Only $41.95