Holistic Reading Strategies: Teaching Children Who Find Reading Difficult

Education & Teaching

Rasinski, Timothy V.

Padak, Nancy

Rasinksi, Timothy

Schools & Teaching

PRENTICE/HALL

Unique collection of six case studies introducing the concept of whole language. Cases reflect classrooms at three developmental levels-early childhood, primary, and intermediate.

Case Studies in Whole Language

Reference

Vacca, Richard T.

Words, Language & Grammar

Wadsworth Publishing

Effective Reading Strategies: Teaching Children Who Find Reading Difficult, Third Edition offers the teaching community a wealth of instructional strategies and activities. This text is aimed at strengthening and developing the reading skills of children who find the subject hard to grasp, including those for whom English is a second language. The broad-based remedial and corrective reading instruction focuses on several areas: phonemic awareness, decoding, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Teachers can combine and modify the various reading strategies and activities to fit their current curricula.

Effective Reading Strategies: Teaching Children Who Find Reading Difficult

Accessible and focused, this book offers dozens of easy-to-implement, research-based family involvement techniques and strategies teachers can use to get families involved in their child's literacy development. An early chapter captures family involvement strategies that can be implemented at the classroom level—such as vocabulary development activities, read to your child routines, and a family involvement homework calendar. A follow-up chapter focuses on effective school-wide family involvement programs—from easy first steps to effective parent volunteer initiatives. Focused coverage includes discussion of high-impact assessment techniques, as well as conversation-starting questions that work with book clubs, professional learning communities, and professional development workshops.

Evidence-Based Instruction in Reading: A Professional Development Guide to Family Involvement

Padak, Nancy D.

Fawcett, Gay

Pearson

This textbook educates teachers and parents about the potential they have, when they work together, to improve children's literacy development. The book provides teachers with sound information that they can communicate to parents about literacy education that can be developed at home and in the schools.

Parents and Teachers: Helping Children Learn to Read and Write

This book shows elementary teachers how and why to use phonogram poems to teach phonics. It includes many sample poems for the most common rimes in children's reading. An intro chapter shows why the onset/rime (phonogram) approach is important to teaching phonics. Chapters with original poems and other texts for the 40 or so most common rimes in children's reading are also included. Approximately 100 poems are included in this book, and there is also information on extending the use of the poems into other activities and texts. Practicing elementary teachers in grades K-3, and parents who are creating reading programs for their children at home.

Phonics Poetry: Teaching Word Families

Zimmerman, Belinda S.

Learn to enhance your assessment and teaching of comprehension! Finally teachers have access to a professional development series, Evidence-Based Instruction in Reading, written specifically to guide them in sharpening their understanding of the five key components to Reading First—phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. This book focuses on comprehension, but each volume in the five-part series addresses one key component and presents friendly tips and strategies that teachers can take right into the classroom. How to make Comprehension work for you! <ul>
<li>Consider recommendations for incorporating appropriate reading materials, fostering productive home–school connections, and promoting students’ desire to learn to read and write. </li>
<li>Read about the findings of current key research studies and learn about their implications for classroom practice. </li>
<li>Discover how to evaluate your current practices and create concrete plans for change. </li>
<li>Start a learning community or book club and share your knowledge with colleagues. </li>
<li>Access useful resources and links to extend and enrich your own learning beyond the classroom.</li> </ul> Teachers rave about A Professional Development Guide to Comprehension! “ The examples in the book are similar to what actually occurs in real classrooms. I love that Dr. Rasinski uses examples from his own classroom. He is truly in touch with the issues and struggles that teachers face when teaching comprehension." —Tracy Hendrix, Literacy Coach, Carnesville Elementary School, Carnesville, GA Also available in the Evidence-Based Instruction in Reading series: A Professional Development Guideto Phonemic Awareness ©2008 ISBN: 0-205-45628-6 A Professional Development Guideto Phonics ©2008 ISBN: 0-205-45630-8 A Professional Development Guideto Vocabulary ©2008 ISBN: 0-205-45631-6 A Professional Development Guideto Fluency ©2008 ISBN: 0-205-45629-4

Evidence-Based Instruction in Reading: A Professional Development Guide to Comprehension

Learn to enhance your assessment and teaching of phonemic awareness! Finally teachers have access to a professional development series, Evidence-Based Instruction in Reading, written specifically to guide them in sharpening their understanding of the five key components to Reading First—phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. This book focuses on phonemic awareness, but each volume in the five-part series addresses one key component and presents friendly tips and strategies that teachers can take right into the classroom. How to make Phonemic Awareness work for you! <ul>
<li>Consider recommendations for incorporating appropriate reading materials, fostering productive home–school connections, and promoting students’ desire to learn to read and write. </li>
<li>Read about the findings of current key research studies and learn about their implications for classroom practice. </li>
<li>Discover how to evaluate your current practices and create concrete plans for change. </li>
<li>Start a learning community or book club and share your knowledge with colleagues. </li>
<li>Access useful resources and links to extend and enrich your own learning beyond the classroom.</li> </ul> Teachers rave about A Professional Development Guide to Phonemic Awareness! "I have been in reading instruction for 33 years and there are teachers in my school who have been in for three years [to] 23 years…with the variation in experience, we have a wide variety of backgrounds…this text brings all that together because of the way it is written…I would use [this book] with my lower grade Reading First teachers and with teachers in grades 2 and 3 for struggling readers. Phonemic Awareness is usually a missing piece in those students who are not on grade level by this time. We could put this information to good use and make it applicable at many grade levels.” — Cathy Taylor, Reading First Literacy Coach, Stewart County Elementary School, Lumpkin, GA Also available in the Evidence-Based Instruction in Reading series: A Professional Development Guideto Phonics © 2008 ISBN: 0-205-45630-8 A Professional Development Guideto Vocabulary © 2008 ISBN: 0-205-45631-6 A Professional Development Guideto Fluency © 2008 ISBN: 0-205-45629-4 A Professional Development Guideto Comprehension © 2008 ISBN: 0-205-45627-8

Evidence-Based Instruction in Reading: A Professional Development Guide to Phonemic Awareness

Mraz, Maryann E.

Learn to enhance your assessment and teaching of fluency! Finally teachers have access to a professional development series, Evidence-Based Instruction in Reading, written specifically to guide them in sharpening their understanding of the five key components to Reading First—phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. This book focuses on fluency, but each volume in the five-part series addresses one key component and presents friendly tips and strategies that teachers can take right into the classroom. How to make Fluency work for you! <ul>
<li>Consider recommendations for incorporating appropriate reading materials, fostering productive home–school connections, and promoting students’ desire to learn to read and write. </li>
<li>Read about the findings of current key research studies and learn about their implications for classroom practice. </li>
<li>Discover how to evaluate your current practices and create concrete plans for change. </li>
<li>Start a learning community or book club and share your knowledge with colleagues. </li>
<li>Access useful resources and links to extend and enrich your own learning beyond the classroom.</li> </ul> Teachers rave about A Professional Development Guide to Fluency! "This book is a godsend! The professional development section of each chapter encourages teachers to reflect upon their current practices and actually make an action plan for improving their practices…This book will make a great book study for literacy coaches to do with their teachers." —Tracy Hendrix, Literacy Coach, Carnesville Elementary School, Carnesville, GA Also available in the Evidence-Based Instruction in Reading series: A Professional Development Guide to Phonemic Awareness ©2008 ISBN: 0-205-45628-6 A Professional Development Guideto Phonics ©2008 ISBN: 0-205-45630-8 A Professional Development Guideto Vocabulary ©2008 ISBN: 0-205-45631-6 A Professional Development Guideto Comprehension ©2008 ISBN: 0-205-45627-8

Evidence-Based Instruction in Reading: Professional Development Guide to Fluency, A

Learn to collaborate to assess and enhance your current comprehension practices! Literacy experts, Timothy Rasinski and Nancy Padak explore five of the major components essential to creating an effective literacy program and present teachers with friendly tips and strategies to implement at their own school. The new series, Evidence-Based Instruction in Reading is a five part professional development program designed to help teachers meet the literacy instruction guidelines as identified by the National Reading Panel (2000). Each of the five books in the series focuses on one key component: phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension and offers recommendations for incorporating appropriate reading materials, fostering productive home-school connections, and promoting a desire for students to learn to read and write throughout the five part series. Making this the perfect professional development resource for teachers in the elementary classroom!

Evidence-Based Instruction in Reading: A Professional Development Guide to Phonics

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