Product Description: When a fourth-grade student, Jenny, was asked about reading, she stated: "I love to read, you get real neat ideas. I really like books about animals and biographies. I'm writing my autobiography now. Oh, I also really like Judy Blume books...read more

Product Description: Informed by the latest research on topics ranging from phonemic awareness and phonics to teaching comprehension strategies, motivation, and assessment, this text provides the knowledge base, skills, and research-based strategies that you need to guide K-8 students successfully toward literacy for the 21st century—using reading and writing for thinking, problem solving, and communicating...read more

Informed by the latest research on topics ranging from phonemic awareness and phonics to teaching comprehension strategies and reader response, the book provides teachers with the knowledge skills, and assessment strategies to successfully guide elementary students toward literacy for the 21st Century-the use of reading and writing for thinking, problem solving, and communicating. This text is rich in first-person accounts, classroom vignettes, and hands-on literacy activities. Some principal themes include balancing skills and more holistic approaches; fostering the love of reading; and successfully teaching all students, including mainstream and minority, native speakers of English and English-language learners, and special needs and gifted; to become able and eager readers.

Product Description: The Book Buddies manual and Emergent Reader training videos provide comprehensive and easy-to-implement guidelines for setting up and running a successful tutorial program in the early grades. Vividly portraying theBook Buddies model in practice, this video demonstrates initial tutorial sessions with first-grader Ashley, who is eased enjoyably into reading despite her lack of knowledge of the alphabet and limited understanding of word boundaries...read more

Provides information on starting a volunteer reading tutorial program (view table of contents)