reading (elementary)

Explains how children learn to read and presents techniques for teaching children of all reading proficiency levels in small groups, moving away from rigid ability-based groups and focusing on more flexible criteria for group formation.

Contains fourteen short read-aloud plays designed to build fluency in third and fourth graders through repeated reading; and includes a mini-lesson, teaching ideas, a rubric, and a checklist for student self-assessment.

Offers strategies and techniques for understanding the thinking work that goes into comprehending texts, covering how to move students to more complex material, building readers' identity, and thoroughly engage learners with the written word.

Presents a collection of reproducible standards-based mini-lessons and strategies that help to develop important reading skills for the kindergarten through second-grade classroom.

Author biography, chapter summaries, discussion questions, vocabulary builders, reproducibles, cross-curricular activities for students of all learning styles for the novel Harry Potter and the goblet of fire by J.K. Rowling.

An instructional guide for Cynthia Rylant's book "Henry and Mudge, the First Book" that provides close reading tasks, text-based vocabulary practice, cross-curricular activities, text-dependent questions, reader response writing prompts, and more.

A teacher's guide to teaching reading to elementary students.