reading

Every day, nine-year-old Yasmin borrows a book from Book Uncle, a retired teacher who has set up a free lending library next to her apartment building.

Provides reader's theater scripts based on familiar fables and folklore for first through second grade classrooms and includes reproducible pages, comprehension and vocabulary pages, and teaching tips.

"Fluency expert Timothy V. Rasinski teams up with Melissa Cheesman Smith, a veteran fifth grade teacher, to help teachers . . . weave fluency work into their daily reading instruction. The book is packed with . . . text and tools, an assessment scale, and . . . ready-to-use lessons including text phrasing and tonality, echo reading, word ladders, and more! Given the importance of fluency and its . . . relationship to comprehension and word recognition the potential is high for improving students overall reading achievement, and their performance in other content areas"--Amazon.com.

Provides daily lessons, monthly units, and resources for a year-long, fourth grade reading and writing curriculum; and includes a DVD.

"Internationally renowned literacy expert Dr. Patricia L. Scharer, former president of the Reading Recovery Council of North America, and her co-authors, all members of the The Ohio State University Literacy Collaborative founded by Dr. Gay Su Pinnell, demystify the reader's workshop--and so much more. In this monumental new book, [one will] learn how to create an environment that supports both independent reading and writing as well as interactive, shared, and guided reading and writing"--Amazon.

Introduces the think-aloud technique for improving intermediate, middle, and high school students' reading comprehension, and presents classroom scenarios, lessons, activities, and sample student work.

Discusses strategies for supporting literacy in students of color, covering classroom set up, scheduling independent reading time, how to support diverse families, and more.

Provides teachers with visualization strategies, focusing on how to teach students to picture scenes, events, setting, characters, and ideas.

Provides enactment techniques that help students apply their social, physical, and intellectual selves to the books they read to help improve their comprehension.

A teacher's guide to the art of reading aloud that features a list of picture books along with step-by-step lessons, tips, and links to an online resource bank that contains videos, graphic organizers, and downloadables for students.