Product Description: For money, wrote Balzac, "people fight and devour one another like spiders in a pot." In House of All Nations, the pot is an exclusive private European bank, and the spiders are a rich mixture of high-stakes gamblers, tax evaders, and shady speculators, all united by their love of money...read more

Product Description: This collection features papers addressing current issues in reading comprehension from cognitive and linguistic perspectives. Organized into three sections, the volume investigates text considerations and reader-text interactions...read more

KEY BENEFIT: This is an excellent guide for dealing with specific reading problems . . . with its wealth of carefully sequenced, highly- prescriptive procedures for teaching decoding, comprehension, content, and study skills. Rather than merely "list" ways to teach word recognition skills, the DISTAR (Direct Instructional Reading) method recommended in this book discusses when a skill should be taught, what items to teach, how to correct errors, and the relationship among various reading skills. Direct Instruction Reading Third Edition emphasizes passage reading as seen in discussions of decoding and comprehension of narrative and expository materials. The book provides in-depth coverage spanning the entire reading spectrum that aids in teaching children from pre-reading through intermediate skill levels. It presents separate coverage of non-fiction and fiction reading and identifies the similarities and difference between them. It provides specific teaching formats that specify what the teacher should say and do as well as the expected responses from children. A useful reference book for any educator or administrator who needs to understand the latest approaches for teaching reading skills as well as the relationships among those various skills.

Well known for its detailed and practical explanations of reading, writing, and study strategies, SECONDARY SCHOOL LITERACY INSTRUCTION is required reading for all non-literacy teaching majors. Its motivational pedagogy especially appeals to pre-service teachers, who quickly realize that the text will help them improve their students' progress. Two hallmark chapters on content area teaching have brought this text wide acclaim for its unique application of literacy and study skills in all secondary subject areas. The text also is recognized for its proven pedagogy, including "Meeting the Challenge," which puts ideas into classroom practice, and "Focus on English Language Learners" and "Focus on Struggling Readers," which highlight important applications for these special needs learners in easy-to-locate sections in each chapter.

Product Description: - Quality cross-curricular fiction and nonfiction selections- Step-by-step reading comprehension and test-taking strategies- Key reading skills, including finding main ideas, identifying sequences, and making predictions and other inferences- Clear layout and visually appealing illustration...read more

Product Description: Help kids learn sight words and become better readers with easy games like Sight Word Soup, Magic Wand Words, Simon Says Sight Words!, Word Construction Site, Sing a Song of Sight Words, and 35 more! From board games to floor games, this collection makes learning to read fun for every child in your class...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Energize your reading instruction through innovative, engaging reading strategies that will empower you to improveyour students' comprehension. Written by Drs. Timothy Rasinski and Danny Brassell, these unique classroom-tested strategies integrate current research with real-life observation of diverse students in action...read more

Reading Explorer is a six-level content-based reading series featuring video from National Geographic to help develop reading and vocabulary skills for all learners. Each unit of Reading Explorer contains two reading passages and an optional video activity. Reading passages cover a wide range of real-world topics related to culture, science, social studies, travel, and adventure.

Product Description: This professional resource provides strategies for developing a personalized understanding of how the word analysis process works. Topics to help learners become proficient readers include phonics, structural analysis, alphabet knowledge, sight words, vocabulary, phonemic awareness, context clues, fluency, and special instructional needs of English language learners...read more

Product Description: ALERT: Before you purchase, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that you select the correct ISBN. Several versions of Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products exist for each title, including customized versions for individual schools, and registrations are not transferable...read more