individualized reading instruction

Describes strategies secondary teachers may use to help students become engaged, strategic readers, discussing the need to build on students' assets, differentiate instruction, and facilitate cooperative learning.

Explains how to set up and use small groups to help young students transition from guided reading to independent reading, using reading workshops, literature circles, reciprocal teaching, and development of writers' craft.

Discusses primary-grade differentiated reading instruction, covering phonemic awareness, word recognition, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and other topics, and presents a differentiation plan for each grade from kindergarten to third.

"In a time when reading instruction is being marginalized and replaced with scripted reading programs, Independent reading : creating lifelong readers gives concrete suggestions for creating independent reading programs that make a difference. In a hands-on, approachable style, authors Barbara Moss and Terrell Young show you how to effectively reestablish independent reading as a central focus in your K-6 classroom"--Page 4 of cover.

Discusses the benefits of independent reading, and provides suggestions and tools teachers may use to create independent reading programs in their kindergarten through sixth grade classrooms. Includes a literature list, graphic organizers, and reproducible handouts for parents.

Provides educators with visual teaching tools to help students think more strategically about reading as a way of maximizing the concepts of self-sufficiency and do-it-yourself learning.

Contains reproducible forms and checklists that may be used to assess the reading strengths and weaknesses of students in grades four to eight, and includes a companion CD.

Draws upon a qualitative study of a group of first-grade teachers to describe the processes teachers use to support children in ways that move them from pre-word readers into word reading and then fluency.