reading (elementary)

"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.

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.

Provides reproducible activity sheets to reinforce independent reading skills in third through fifth grade students.

Presents a guide to teaching reading, focusing on word structure, early literacy, decoding and word recognition and other topics.

Provides step-by-step instructions for using guided oral reading in regular, remedial, and special education classrooms, explains the theory that supports the instructional strategy, and includes examples of literacy centers in which students can work independently or in groups while the teacher in working with other students.

Contains two-page read aloud picture book conversations for over one hundred books that help teachers support literacy.

Presents research and guidelines for K-9 teachers on reading comprehension, providing sample activities, worksheets, assessment tools, and strategies for reading fiction, reading for information, engaging in research, performing tasks, studying, taking tests, improving vocabulary, and developing a lifelong love of reading.