Product Description: Reading fluency has been identified in the Common Core State Standards as a foundational competency for reading proficiency. This resource provides teachers with approaches to fluency instruction that are effective, engaging, and easy to implement...read more

Close reading, the purposeful, focused reading and rereading of text, is more than an education buzzword. Every Reader, a Close Reader defines and unpacks the components of close reading and explores how to apply it within the context of the Common Core State Standards so that every student will be able to implement close reading strategies in class and independently. Drawing expertise and ideas from research, as well as teachers from across the country, Every Reader, a Close Reader serves as both an instructional guide and professional development tool for classroom teachers and instructional leaders to use when starting or strengthening close reading at the classroom level. In addition, this book includes chapters that focus on developing the close reading skills of students who are struggling readers, English language learners, or gifted learners.

Shifting your literature instruction to meet the Common Core can be tricky. The standards are specific about how students should analyze characters, themes, point of view, and more. In this new book, Lisa Morris makes it easy by taking you through the standards and offering tons of practical strategies, tools, and mentor texts for grades 2-5. She shows you how to combine the standards into effective units of study so that you can teach with depth rather than worry about coverage. Topics covered include: Teaching questioning, inferring, and author’s purpose; Guiding readers to look at themes and write summaries; Showing students how to recognize structural elements of literature; Teaching the craft of writing and vocabulary development; and Helping students analyse characters and character development. Throughout this highly practical book, you’ll find a variety of charts and other graphic organizers that can be easily adapted for classroom use. A list of suggested mentor texts is also available as a free eResource from our website, www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138856172.

Suitable for browsing and serious research alike, this best-selling reference contains essays on current issues, full coverage of U.S. political races and the Olympics, a capsule history of the world, an atlas, and photographs. Simultaneous. 400,000 first printing.

Refocusing attention on the critical importance of high-quality classroom literacy instruction, this book offers a blueprint for classrooms that accelerate literacy learning of children who find learning to read and write difficult. Recognizing that providing opportunities for children to read and write is only a good beginning this book offers supportive instruction through an explicit modeling of the thinking processes that skills readers and writers use. This balanced approach to classroom literacy lessons engages children in meaningful reading and writing activity while teachers model powerful word structure and meaning-making strategies for their students. Practical cases vividly portray the look and feel of the balanced classroom programs this text describes.

Product Description: With today's emphasis on meeting standards and teaching within a structured curricula, it's often difficult to find time to focus on high-quality literature in daily instruction. Fortunately, in this long-awaited third edition of the bestselling Children's Literature in the Reading Program, you ll discover the creative teaching strategies and practical guidance you need to effectively incorporate high-quality literature into your busy classroom schedule so that your students can learn to read and enjoy doing so...read more

Product Description: Accessible and teacher friendly, this book provides a blueprint for planning, delivering, and evaluating small-group interventions for struggling readers in PreK-2. It describes how to set up an efficient response-to-intervention (RTI) system that enhances any reading program already in place in a classroom, and that is fully compatible with the Common Core State Standards...read more

Product Description: Model lessons and engaging activities help students apply research-based reading strategies to informational texts so that they can read and comprehend complex texts. Students will learn these key reading strategies:* finding key details* determining main idea* locating text evidence to support an answer* using text features* understanding text structure* summarizing text* asking and answering questions* and much more!Armed with these reading skills, students can successfully tackle complex informational texts and really become independent readers...read more

Product Description: This insightful book reviews the current research on literacy programming, examines the latest standards for strengthening reading skills, and provides educators, families, and caregivers methods for building successful reading habits in and out of the classroom...read more

Product Description: Advances in literacy require collaboration between all of a school's stakeholders. This book harnesses the latest research and takes into consideration CCSS to show how to make that collaboration a reality.• Emphasizes adolescent literacy and literacy coaching, currently the two most significant topics in literacy instruction • Summarizes current literacy research, including research and practices for adolescent literacy• Provides detailed examples and applications of theoretical principles of reading instruction• Presents practical information on infusing technology throughout literacy instruction• Encourages utilizing conversations in the classroom and describes methods for implementatio...read more

Product Description: In Teaching Reading in a Title I School, Nancy Akhavan shows primary teachers why workshops are good for students, even those who struggle, and especially those who are English language learners. Drawing on her experiences as a principal, a reading staff developer, and a teacher, she shows us how teachers use reading and writing workshops successfully...read more

Product Description: This bestselling book gives preservice and practicing literacy coaches the tools they need to build a successful schoolwide reading program. The authors, well-known experts in the field, describe the literacy coach's crucial, evolving role in today's schools...read more

Product Description: * Finalist--Association of Educational Publishers 2013 Distinguished Achievement Award *Principals will discover practical strategies for strengthening and improving reading programs using the foundation established by the authors' six truths of reading instruction...read more

Product Description: This compendium of outstanding read-aloud choices for grades pre-K–3 will enrich and extend content area instruction, helping busy teachers to meet curriculum requirements within the confines of their busy schedules.• Detailed read-aloud plans created for trade books that scaffold learning across the curriculum in grades Pre-K–3• Cites over 700 recently published children's trade books with annotations that correspond to content areas• Contains selections addressing a wide range of topics, including school and family matters, community, friendship, prejudice, and civil rights, as well as books containing funny stories, tall tales, nursery rhymes, and mysteries• Subject, title, and author indexes• Children's poetry anthologies to further scaffold learning in grades Pre-K–3• Listings of wordless books and first-chapter book...read more

Product Description: Three dramatic innovations are changing the face of reading instruction: (1) response to intervention (RTI), (2) differentiated instruction, and (3), with an increasing impact on classrooms each year, technology. RTI & Differentiated Reading in the K 8 Classroom focuses on these three areas from kindergarten through the upper elementary grades...read more

Product Description: Guided practice is a key component of reading instruction that is too often shortchanged in busy classrooms. Reading experts and veteran teachers Valorie Falco and Rochelle Soloway share their research-based, classroom-tested strategies for filling this instructional gap: interactive read-alouds and shared reading...read more

Product Description: Improve all students’ reading skills with this research-based book packed with practical tools for implementing RTI quickly, efficiently, and successfully. Downloadable forms are available online.

Product Description: Based on her work over the last decade with more than 100 schools and visits to more than 5000 classrooms, Barbara Taylor shares her School Change in Reading (SCR) reform model in Catching Schools. At the heart of the reform model is the belief that student learning improves when teachers are supported with research-based, effective reading instruction and are given a way to work alongside one another to hone their teaching abilities...read more

Product Description: Implementing Response to Intervention in Reading Within the Elementary Classroom provides elementary teachers with specific, clear guidance on how to implement Response to Intervention principles in reading without the use of extra classroom resources...read more