Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding, Second Edition

by Stephanie Harvey & Anne Goudvis (2007, Stenhouse, 30.00)
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Since its publication, 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 background knowledge plays in understanding. Another major addition is the inclusion of a section on content literacy which describes how to apply comprehension strategies flexibly across the curriculum. Grades K-8. [8” x 10"...360 pages]

How to Teach Reading When You're Not a Reading Teacher: Revised Edition

by Sharon Faber (2006, Incentive, 17.99)
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For any teacher with middle grade students that have difficulty reading or for any teacher who simply wants their students to be successful in life. Though some feel teaching reading is the responsibility of the elementary school, this book shows how it is every teacher's responsibility and how to actually do it. Grades 4-8. [7” x 9”...175 pages]

60 Strategies for Improving Reading Comprehension

by Kathleen Feeney Jonson (2005, Corwin Press, 35.95)
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Comprehension is the final goal of reading, but because it involves several cognitive processes, it remains the most difficult facet of reading development to teach. Based on the recommendations of the National Reading Panel Report, 60 Strategies for Improving Reading Comprehension in Grades K-8 provides teachers with a ready-to-use toolkit of tried-and-true learning strategies designed to actively engage students in cognitive processes, including predicting, visualizing, making inferences, monitoring, synthesizing, and summarizing. Developed as specific instructional procedures with clearly delineated steps for implementation, these entertaining activities are effective in all types of classrooms. [8.5” x 11”...226 pages]

The Reading Teacher's Book of Lists: 5th Edition

by Edward Fry & Jacqueline Kress (2006, Jossey-Bass, 29.95)
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Over 200 updated and new lists. Topics include: fluency strategies, internet resources, writing prompts, and reading in the content areas. Offers an unparalleled source of timely, practical information on all aspects of reading instruction. Grades K-12. [9” x 11 ”...524 pages]

Teach Them All to Read: Catching the Kids Who Fall Through the Cracks

by Elaine McEwan (2002, Corwin Press, 34.95)
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A noted reading authority offers teachers at all levels the understanding and motivation they need to teach children to read—especially those students who need help the most. Administrators at site and district levels will find invaluable data on creating a reading culture that leads to marked improvements in achievement scores. [7” x 9”...175 pages]

Teaching Reading to Struggling Readers

by Esther Minskoff (2005, Brookes, 29.95)
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Here is a guide to addressing students' individual instructional needs and teaching reading skills alongside language and thinking skills. All of the suggested ideas and approaches have been identified as best practices in reading, so educators can use them with confidence in their classrooms. For use with students in grades K-8. [7” x 10”...286 pages]

The Reading Teacher's Survival Kit

by Wilma Miller (2001, Ctr. for App. Research in Ed. 29.95)
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Over 120 activity sheets, assessment devices, and management tools are found here. They will be of help to students of all ability levels as they learn to read as proficiently as possible. [8.5” x 11 ”...487 pages]

Why Our Children Can't Read & What We Can Do About It: A Scientific Revolution in Reading

by Diane McGuinness (1997, Touchstone, 17.00)
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The author explains that the ability to read depends on the ability to hear the sounds of our language correctly. McGuinness maintains that reading success depends on a working knowledge of something called the spelling code, which is the key to how English spelling works...what letters and letter combinations go with which sounds. [6” x 9”...384 pages]

Every Child Ready to Read: Literacy Tips for Parents

Edited by the Lee Pesky Learning Center (2004, Ballantine Books, 10.00)
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Offered in a checklist format, this handy guide for parents features tips and tricks for encouraging young children to read. [5” x 7.5”...96 pages]

Read to Me

by Judi Moreillon (2004, Star Bright Books, 6.95/hardback)
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A gentle rhyme-filled picture book with multicultural images that encourage parents to read to their children. Color. Parents and students in grades K-5. [6” x 7”...18 pages]

The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading: A Mother's Tale of Desperation & Delight

by Jessie Wise & Sara Buffington (2004, Norton, 29.95)
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Too many of today's parents watch their children struggle with early reading skills and don't know how to help. This simple, direct, scripted guide to teaching reading supplies parents with a clear, direct phonics program that gives them the know-how and confidence to take matters into their own hands. [8.5” x 11”...400 pages]

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