Provides 26 detailed mini-lesson plans that concentrate on one skill or strategy at a time, including context clues, prediction, and main idea.
Growing out of the interactive read-aloud experience and linked to independent reading, teachers use many of these texts as examples from which they generalise the understanding.
"The goal is not that they can do the steps of the strategy but that they become more comfortable and competent with a new skill." With The Reading Strategies Book, you'll have ways to help your readers make progress every day.
"Why should I read?" Can your students answer that question? Do they have trouble seeing the importance that reading may have in their lives? Are they lacking motivation, both in...
As a teacher of literacy, you transform the lives of the children in your classroom. The Reading Minilessons Book offers short, concise, purposeful lessons with a practical application in a specific area of literacy.
Growing out of the interactive read-aloud experience and linked to independent reading, teachers use many of these texts as examples from which they generalise the understanding.
Shares practical ideas for facilitating reading fluency in elementary school students, includes assessments, strategies, and word lists.
Harvey Daniels' Literature Circles introduced tens of thousands of teachers to the power of student-led book discussions. Nancy Steineke's Reading and Writing Together showed how a teacher can nurture friendship...
Growing out of the interactive read-aloud experience and linked to independent reading, teachers use many of these texts as examples from which they generalise the understanding.
A guide to helping children fully understand texts that explains how teachers can make the comprehension process achievable, accessible, and incremental by creating links between the concrete and the abstract through writing, discussion, ...
A simple act of kindness can transform an invisible boy into a friend... Meet Brian, the invisible boy.