January 2nd, 2010
Category: Books
Tags: at, Creating, Grades, Instruction, Literacy, Reading, struggling readers, Students, Vocabulary
Product Description
This practical resource gives teachers step-by-step guidance for teaching students in grades 4 to 8 all major aspects of reading and writing. In response to today’s needs to tailor instruction for the middle grades, this book features sample lessons for virtually every major literacy skill/strategy and offers numerous reinforcement suggestions and generous listings of materials appropriate for the middle grades. Renowned author Tom Gunning presents the theories behind the methods, so readers will be free to choose, adapt, and/or construct their own approaches as they create a balanced evidence-based program of literacy instruction. Because language, background knowledge, and thinking…
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December 27th, 2009
Category: Blogs
Tags: adult literacy, at, Literacy, literacy rate, Reading, reading horizons, struggling readers, Vocabulary, web
In response to current literacy struggles in the United States, Reading Horizons has created a Web page dedicated to providing free resources for parents and educators to assist them in their efforts to teach children and adults how to read.
According to the National Assessment of Adult Literacy, 14 percent of the United States population is functionally illiterate, meaning over 30 million Americans cannot make inferences or detect important information from the materials they read. This finding contradicts the 99 percent literacy rate reported in the US CIA World Factbook. The discrepancy between the two findings is a result of the CIA’s…
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December 21st, 2009
Category: Books
Tags: at, Early, early literacy, Grades, Instruction, Literacy, Primary, Reading, struggling readers, teaching, Today's, Writing
Product Description
This introductory K-3 literacy text models explicit instruction as a vehicle for developing reading and writing skills in primary classrooms. The authors rely on both recent research and personal experience, sharing classroom-proven lesson plans, samples of student work, and examples from the classroom to ground and apply each chapter’s content. A new focus on struggling readers – in feature boxes within each chapter, as adaptation ideas within lesson plans, and in a complete chapter (Chapter 11 – Interventions for Struggling Readers) – gives you the information you need to detect, assess, and address the needs of these students. English…
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December 17th, 2009
Category: Books
Tags: at, Centers, Connecting, Literacy, Literature, Middle, Readers, Reading, School, Struggling, struggling readers, Vocabulary
- ISBN13: 9780929895987
- Condition: NEW
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Turn your struggling readers into successful readers with literacy centers created especially for middle-school students. This easy-to-use resource provides teacher directions, student directions, and reproducibles for forty center activities structured around the Big Ten areas of reading that all students must master: main idea, cause and effect, compare and contrast, vocabulary in context, sequence of events, literature terms, fact and opinion, author s purpose, reference and research, and summarizing. Using a variety of literature genres, from fiction and autobiographies, to newspaper articles and anecdotal records, these classroom-tested centers allow students to apply, practice, and master the skills…
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December 16th, 2009
Category: Books
Tags: at, Grades, Literacy, Phonics, Reading, reading strategies, Reinforcing, Strategies, struggling readers, Threads, Vocabulary
Product Description
In Literacy Strategies for Grades 4–12: Reinforcing the Threads of Reading, Karen Tankersley provides a multiplicity of practical, research-based reading strategies tailored specifically for use with older students. These students may no longer have a reading class as part of the school day, but they are still developing their reading skills—and every teacher contributes to that effort.
As in her previous book, The Threads of Reading: Strategies for Literacy Development (2003), Tankersley here focuses on the six foundational “threads” necessary for effective reading—phonemic awareness, phonics and decoding, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, and higher-order thinking—only this time with a focus on the…
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