reading (elementary)

Offers advice on how to use the conference approach method when implementing a reading program in the classroom, discussing organization and planning, introductory activities, responses to reading, reading skills and strategies, the links between reading and writing, and record keeping and evaluation.

Presents over fifty activities designed to help students build decoding skills and vocabulary knowledge, based on the key instructional components of integration, repetition, and meaningful use.

Presents a comprehensive guide for kindergarten through fifth-grade teachers showing how to implement writing instruction into their curriculum and provides strategies for organizing ideas, editing, and more.

Identifies ways in which school librarians, teachers, and principals can work together to promote real literacy learning in schools.

Provides practical strategies for improving literacy curriculum in the classroom and increasing students' joy of reading.

Presents practical, research-based reading strategies designed to help older students master necessary literacy skills, focusing on six essential foundations needed for effective reading.

Presents twenty-five reproducible short plays for kindergarten and first grade on such themes as the seasons, animals, and nature, and includes a cross-curricular extension activity for each.

Contains twenty reproducible mini-plays for students in grades three through five, each with speaking parts at two reading levels.