Reading & Phonics

Doing What Works: Literacy Strategies for the Next Level will assist educators as they support students in the mastery of vocabulary, comprehension, and study skills required by the Common Core State Standards. All strategies have been carefully selected...

The book draws from literary, psychological, and sociological perspectives to discuss and to illustrate how these perspectives contribute to instructional practices in Young Adult Literature. The focus is on young adult identity development as it is...

"This book will prove a valuable resource for parents, teachers, and librarians on the vital topic of reading aloud." Library Journal, Starred Review Parents and teachers know that reading aloud to children is important, and many parents of infants and...

What happens after a formative literacy assessment like DIBELS, TPRI, FAIR, or AIMSweb? How can educators translate the results into targeted interventions and improved reading outcomes? This reader-friendly teaching guide makes the next steps of...

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Shortcuts to Beginning Reading borrows the strong points from many popular teaching methods to build reading "fluency"-that point where the reader is reading at a level where he or she recognizes words quickly without having to stop and decode them. Once...

Michael Anthony, 20-year reading workshop practitioner at the secondary level, and Joan Kaywell, acclaimed author and advocate for young adult literature in learning, present Between the Lines, a creative paradigm shift for the English Language Arts...

When students are in elementary school, a teacher who has expertise in teaching the fundamentals of reading instructs them. At the middle and high school level that stops - and the timing could not be worse. The literacy demands increase exponentially,...

Comic Connections: Building Character and Theme is designed to help teachers from middle school through college find exciting new strategies to help students develop their literacy skills. Each chapter has three pieces: comic relevance, classroom...

Professional development activities have proven adequate to facilitate mastery of new content, inform teachers of best practice, and for dissemination of information, however, such efforts fail to address the emotional and personal aspects of the...

Learning Vital Reading Strategies: A Workbook for Students is a workbook that supplements the instruction offered in Help! My College Students Can't Read: Teaching Vital Reading Strategies in the Content Areas (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015). The workbook...

Elementary school media specialists and teachers routinely use children's picture books in their lessons. These books add depth and vitality to the curriculum because they are written and illustrated by some of the world's most gifted writers and artists...

This is a book about the struggles over reforming reading instruction and the corresponding effort to improve reading achievement in the United States over the last seven decades.About the AuthorWilliam D. Bursuck is Professor Emeritus of Specialized...

Literacy: Made for All is a classroom-ready, teacher-friendly resource for English and Writing teachers of Grades 9 through 12. Organized buffet style, it is designed to complement an existing English curriculum by providing a tested repertoire of...

Teaching Reading and Writing Through Children's Literature is a guide that enhances children's enjoyment and understanding of books while focusing on skills instruction. Although there are numerous books published in relation to this topic, this manual...

Currents in Language Learning provides programmatic state-of-the-art overviews of current issues in the language sciences and their applications in first, second, and bi/multilingual language acquisition in naturalistic and tutored contexts. Draws on...

The Let Them Write Series is a classroom-tested, teacher-friendly resource for Language Arts teachers of grades 4 through 8. The program is organized in nine sections, each presenting a buffet of from five to nine 1- or 2-week modules. Each...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765903216Author Timothy RasinskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Shell Educational PublishingPublisher Shell Educational PublishingWeight(grams)...

We all learn to read and do math using oral, visual, and kinesthetic methods. Some of us favor one method over another, and for the most part group teaching depends heavily on oral/aural and visual methods. Hence, pupils who need kinesthetic instruction...

A small set of important practices should be considered non-negotiable elements of daily reading instruction. The research base of these non-negotiables is described along with practical examples of their application. The non-negotiables do not require...

Engaging students in worthwhile learning requires more than a knowledge of underlying principles of good teaching. It demands considerable practice as well as images of what good teaching in particular situations and for particular purposes might look...

Now in a revised and updated third edition incorporating a decade of additional research and classroom experience, this book has helped over 100,000 primary-grades teachers understand and successfully apply the science of reading in phonics instruction...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781036000639Author Jilly HuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Rising Stars UK LtdPublisher Rising Stars UK LtdWeight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm) 242mm *...

Puzzle Me the Right Answer to that One offers the content of AP English classes. This book intends to serve as a guide and encouragement to educators by showing what can be possible when a teacher enjoys the freedom to find their own voice. Poems,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781036000264Author Kazuko HohkiFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Rising Stars UK LtdPublisher Rising Stars UK LtdWeight(grams) 120gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

Michael Anthony, 20-year reading workshop practitioner at the secondary level, and Joan Kaywell, acclaimed author and advocate for young adult literature in learning, present Between the Lines, a creative paradigm shift for the English Language Arts...

Key Words: Reclaiming Children's Precious Vocabulary is about early and emergent literacy- it promotes the concept that each child possesses a key vocabulary of words that are special and magical. These words conjure emotions that can lead them into the...

Comic Connections: Building Character and Theme is designed to help teachers from middle school through college find exciting new strategies to help students develop their literacy skills. Each chapter has three pieces: comic relevance, classroom...

This book provides an overview designed to help educators collaborate more effectively in the areas of content area literacy for the sake of their K-6 ELL students. The book weaves the practical and theoretical aspects of collaboration and suggests ways...

When students are in elementary school, a teacher who has expertise in teaching the fundamentals of reading instructs them. At the middle and high school level that stops - and the timing could not be worse. The literacy demands increase exponentially,...

Reading provides the foundation allowing students to access and analyze information. However, it is not just a single skill. Students' comprehension is impacted and supported by solid foundational skills in oral language, phonemic awareness, phonics,...

This book offers middle and high school teachers useful suggestions and strategies for cultivating literacy in their classrooms, focusing primarily on the key skills of reading and writing. It discusses the nature of standards-based education and...

Teaching Challenging Texts shows how to increase reading comprehension and enhance student engagement, even with the most challenging texts. Every chapter features ready-to-use, research-based lessons, replete with explicit instructions, handouts, Common...

One of the most popular literary genres, memoir can provide literary and literacy access to reluctant adolescent readers and writers, and help bridge the achievement gap by motivating students to read more critically and write more meaningfully about...

Teaching genres of fiction, non-fiction, and media need not intimidate new to middle school teachers who may be recent college graduates or veterans transitioning from elementary or high school. Here are strategies for designing culturally relevant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765918081Author Joe RhatiganFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Shell Educational PublishingPublisher Shell Educational PublishingWeight(grams)...

The nation's demographic of public schools are more ethnically, racially, and linguistically diverse than ever before (Strauss, 2014). However, there are still educational policies and practices that call to question whether traditionally marginalized...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798822904101Author Barbara McNamaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Palmetto PublishingPublisher Palmetto PublishingWeight(grams) 599gDimensions(mm)...

Beyond the Bedtime Story: Understanding and Promoting Reading Development During the Middle School Years was written for educators, parents, and all who care about promoting the reading development of middle school students. The book fills a much-needed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949535723Author Patti TolerFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Best Seller Publishing, LLCPublisher Best Seller Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 77g