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Reading Essentials: The Specifics You Need to Teach Reading Well

Reading Essentials: The Specifics You Need to Teach Reading Well

by Regie Routman

In this easy-to-read and research-based text, Regie Routman provides clarity, support, specific demonstrations, and confidence to teachers so they can teach reading well and get high test scores too - regardless of the reading program they use. Detailed lessons, immediately doable ideas, teaching tips, and lots of practical suggestions make this an essential text for excellent and enjoyable teaching and learning. (more)

Classrooms That Work: They Can All Read and Write (4th Edition)

Classrooms That Work: They Can All Read and Write (4th Edition)

by Patricia M. Cunningham, Richard L. Allington

"Cunningham and Allington's voice and presentation style are unique, and I think this distinguishes their book from others. This book is an enjoyable and exciting read for my students. It makes them want to get out there and teach. They walk away from it with not only a sound set of teaching strategies, but a strong sense of why they would use them, and a belief that they can teach like this!Bravo!" --Donna H.... (more)

Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons

Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons

by Phyllis Haddox, Elaine Bruner, Siegfried Engelmann

* Is your child halfway through first grade and still unable to read? * Is your preschooler bored with coloring and ready for reading? * Are you worried that your child will become lost in overcrowded classrooms? * Did you know that early readers hold an advantage over their peers throughout school? * Do you want to help your child read, but are afraid you'll do something wrong? SRAs DISTAR® is the most... (more)

The Fluent Reader: Oral Reading Strategies for Building Word Recognition, Fluency, and Comprehension

The Fluent Reader: Oral Reading Strategies for Building Word Recognition, Fluency, and Comprehension

by Timothy V. Rasinski

Oral reading strategies for building word recognition, fluency and comprehension.

What Really Matters for Struggling Readers: Designing Research-Based Programs (2nd Edition)

What Really Matters for Struggling Readers: Designing Research-Based Programs (2nd Edition)

by Richard L. Allington

The Second Edition of this bestselling book includes a new section on No Child Left Behind as well as research sections on reading fluency, comprehension strategies, interventions for struggling readers, and vocabulary development and instruction. What Really Matters for Struggling Readers helps teachers design reading remediation and intervention programs around well-established reality- and research-based... (more)

Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding

Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding

by Stephanie Harvey

Since its publication in 2000, Strategies That Work has become an indispensable resource for teachers who want to explicitly teach thinking strategies so that students become engaged, thoughtful, independent readers. In this revised and expanded edition, Stephanie and Anne have added twenty completely new comprehension lessons, extending the scope of the book and exploring the central role that activating... (more)

Reading Power: Teaching Students to Think While They Read

Reading Power: Teaching Students to Think While They Read

by Adrienne Gear

Reading Power promotes reading comprehension with a wealth of effective strategies that help students think as they read. Teachers will learn how to engage students and create powerful opportunities for a more interactive, thoughtful reading experience that improves comprehension. Built around the strategies that proficient readers use – or “reading powers” - the book recognizes that teachers are implementing... (more)

Still Learning to Read: Teaching Students in Grades 3-6

Still Learning to Read: Teaching Students in Grades 3-6

by Franki Sibberson

The saying goes that "children learn to read in grades K–2, and read to learn in grades 3 and up." However, teachers in grades 3 through 6 are discovering this conventional wisdom is wrong—their students have to deal with an increasingly sophisticated range of texts that require additional reading skills. Upper elementary teachers face the difficult task of trying to offer appropriate reading instruction just as... (more)

Reading Made Easy: A Guide to Teach Your Child to Read

Reading Made Easy: A Guide to Teach Your Child to Read

by Valerie Bendt

“Valerie Bendt’s latest book, Reading Made Easy is just that – an easy to follow reading manual that requires no advanced preparation on the part of the parent. She has created her own symbols to designate the varying phonetic sounds, such as for the short and long vowels and silent letters. She also includes original stories and poems to use as readers as the child progresses through the manual. In an effort to... (more)

Teach a Child to Read With Children's Books: Combining Story Reading, Phonics, and Writing to Promote Reading Success

Teach a Child to Read With Children's Books: Combining Story Reading, Phonics, and Writing to Promote Reading Success

by Mark B. Thogmartin

A 1999 Parents' Choice Approved Seal Winner! Combining story reading, phonics, and writing, this book offers an anjoyable, integrated approach to learning to read. Topics include preparing children for success before formal lessons begin, using books to promote learning anjoyment, and where to find the right books.

Lifetime Guarantees : Toward Ambitious Literacy Teaching

Lifetime Guarantees : Toward Ambitious Literacy Teaching

by Shelley Harwayne

Imagine a school where students don't just learn to read and writethey choose to read and write, and do it with enthusiasm. Now, Shelley Harwayne takes us behind the scenes at the Manhattan New School.

Conferring with Readers: Supporting Each Student's Growth and Independence

Conferring with Readers: Supporting Each Student's Growth and Independence

by Gravity Goldberg

A Study Guide is available for this title. Click here to download. To download some helpful suggestions for book study groups, click here. A great reading conference only takes five minutes, but its impact can last a lifetime. That's because conferences are the critical, one-to-one teaching that forms the backbone of reading instruction. Conferring with Readers shows you how to confer well and demonstrates why... (more)

Essential Readings on ComprehensionDiane Lapp, Douglas Fisher

Essential Readings on Comprehension

by Diane Lapp, Douglas Fisher

The goal of reading instruction is to help learners become active, critical readers with skills and dispositions to understand a range of text types. Here, in one convenient collection, you ll find outstanding articles grounded in research and full of instructional suggestions to help you meet this goal. Compiled and introduced by noted experts Diane Lapp and Douglas Fisher, the book opens with their overview... (more)

Differentiated Reading Instruction: Strategies for the Primary Grades

Differentiated Reading Instruction: Strategies for the Primary Grades

by Sharon Walpole

This bestselling book provides a research-based framework for making differentiated instruction work in the primary grades. It includes scientifically validated techniques for teaching each component of the beginning reading program. The authors describe how to use assessment to form differentiated small groups and monitor student progress; plan which skills to target and when; and implement carefully selected... (more)

Practicing What We Know: Informed Reading Instruction

Practicing What We Know: Informed Reading Instruction

7 Keys to Comprehension: How to Help Your Kids Read It and Get It!

7 Keys to Comprehension: How to Help Your Kids Read It and Get It!

by Susan Zimmermann

It's simple: If children don't understand what they read, they will never embrace reading. And that limits what they can learn while in school. This fact frightens parents, worries teachers, and ultimately hurts children. 7 Keys to Comprehension is the result of cutting-edge research. It gives parents and teachers—those who aren't already using this valuable program—practical, thoughtful advice about the... (more)

Are You Prepared to Teach Reading?: A Practical Tool for Self-Assessment

Are You Prepared to Teach Reading?: A Practical Tool for Self-Assessment

by James Zarrillo

Are You Prepared to Teach Reading? will help students prepare for state certification examinations on reading instruction and self-regulate their own learning about teaching reading. This book has been adapted from the RICA supplement, a test-prep booklet created for students in the California teacher prep program who must pass the Reading Instruction Competence Assessment. Chapters in the book provide... (more)

How to Read a Book

by Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Lincoln Van Doren

How to Read a Book, originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic. It is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader. And now it has been completely rewritten and updated. You are told about the various levels of reading and how to achieve them -- from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspectional reading, to speed reading,... (more)

Conversations : Strategies for Teaching, Learning, and Evaluating

Conversations : Strategies for Teaching, Learning, and Evaluating

by Regie Routman

In this long-awaited volume, Regie Routman continues the discussion she began in the best-selling Invitations and further explores the full universe of an effective language arts and literacy program across the curriculum.

The Read-Aloud Handbook: Sixth Edition (Read-Aloud Handbook)

The Read-Aloud Handbook: Sixth Edition (Read-Aloud Handbook)

by Jim Trelease

For more than two decades, millions of parents and educators have turned to Jim Trelease’s beloved classic to help countless children become avid readers through awakening their imaginations and improving their language skills. Now this new edition of The Read-Aloud Handbook imparts the benefits, rewards, and importance of reading aloud to children of a new generation. Supported by delightful anecdotes... (more)

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by Regie Routman

by Patricia M. Cunningham, Richard L. Allington

by Phyllis Haddox, Elaine Bruner, Siegfried Engelmann

by Timothy V. Rasinski

by Richard L. Allington

by Stephanie Harvey

by Adrienne Gear

by Franki Sibberson

by Valerie Bendt

by Mark B. Thogmartin

by Shelley Harwayne

by Gravity Goldberg

by Diane Lapp, Douglas Fisher

by Sharon Walpole

by Susan Zimmermann

by James Zarrillo

by Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Lincoln Van Doren

by Regie Routman

by Jim Trelease