reading (elementary)

Demonstrates how to adapt reading comprehension strategies, such as K-W-L, visualizing, questioning, inferring, predicting, and connecting, for the teaching of math concepts.

A practical guide for teaching comprehension and fluency in the kindergarten through eighth-grade classroom with instruction on reading levels, writing about reading, and interactive read-aloud and literature study; and contains a DVD with over 100 blackline masters, forms, and checklists.

Contains teacher summaries and more than 240 reproducible pages with quizzes, projects, and activities for teaching forty-eight popular children's books in fourth through eighth grade.

Ideas for forty books that can be used in the curriculum for reluctant readers in grades two to five.

Contains lessons that use poems to help students in sixth through eighth grade improve their reading skills, each with a selection of related activities, and includes an audio CD of the poems and an interactive whiteboard-compatible resource CD.

Contains fifty reproducible graphic organizers which may be used by students in grades two through six to help them understand and identify different aspects of books, and begin to use what they have learned in their own writing.

Lucy Calkins, founding director of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, presents her vision for the whole of teaching reading, discussing the importance of teacher education in ensuring every child becomes a strong reader and writer, and the central role of the independent reading workshop in the reading curriculum.

Describes strategies teachers can use to promote reading comprehension in students from kindergarten through eighth grade; and includes examples of student work, illustrations, and other reference tools.