books and reading

Contains teaching activities based on stories in 90 titles. Books are arranged by curriculum units.

Contains 450 tips on ways to expand the impact of and interest in ninety popular children's picture books.

Contains more than seventy games and activities designed to help children improve their reading skills.

Presents a model for guided reading in elementary classrooms, including lesson plans, targeted reading strategies, guided writing support, and assessment tools.

Explains how to make read-aloud time an effective unscripted teaching tool, presenting real examples from the classroom, strategies for fiction and nonfiction, and advice on book choice and building classroom community, along with a list of favorite read-aloud books chosen by sixty-seven third- through sixth-grade teachers.

Examines the characteristics and needs of transitional student readers and offers tools that will assist them in becoming more independent.

Provides lists of books by contemporary authors and illustrators, published since 1988, which are suitable for reading aloud to children.