Kindergarten | EDUCATION

Best Practices for Teaching Reading

What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do

Randi Stone
  • Pages 176
  • Format 6" x 9"
  • Product Code 9781412924597 ( MR #050758 )

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Enrich your reading instruction with classroom-proven strategies from the nation's best teachers!

Following the successful format of the companion volumes for teaching writing, mathematics, science, and social studies, Best Practices for Teaching Reading presents firsthand accounts of teachers' most successful instructional strategies and lessons for teaching reading. Randi Stone brings readers into the classrooms of award-winning teachers who share their outstanding strategies for reaching elementary, middle, and high school learners with diverse learning styles and abilities.
 
With 40 classroom-tested strategies, the book provides practical guidance for building students' decoding and vocabulary skills while developing their comprehension and motivation for reading. This collection of best practices presents ways to help students:
 
  • Get excited about reading
  • Make connections to different texts
  • Become effective writers as well as readers
  • Use literacy skills across the curriculum
 
Veteran and new teachers alike will find an abundance of fresh ideas to teach reading while helping students build confidence, increase academic achievement, and develop critical thinking skills.
 
FEATURES:
  • Tried and tested best practices from the classrooms of award-winning teachers
  • Offers strategies for teaching reading skills to learners with diverse learning styles and competencies
  • Covers working with school and district reading coaches and consultants, preparing students for reading tests, ways to promote family and community literacy, and more

  • Pages 1 - 5

  • Copyright 2009