reading (elementary)

Explains how to create a balanced literacy program for students in grades kindergarten through three based on guided reading and supported by a variety of approaches including shared reading, interactive writing, and reading aloud, and includes reproducible resources and a book list of over 2,500 titles.

Presents a comprehensive curriculum program designed to help teachers of grades three through eight help their students develop as readers, writers, and language users, with resources for planning, assessment, evaluation, discussion, and trouble shooting.

Defines the different genres of children's literature, states why each one is valuable in teaching literacy in first through fifth grade, and provides lessons, reproducible worksheets, and book recommendations.

Offers research-based methods and inspiration designed to help teachers establish comprehensive literacy instruction in secondary-level classrooms.

A resource guide for teachers that provides practical information, book summaries, literary insights, and teaching ideas for approximately 150 books appropriate for fourth and fifth graders.

Presents an illustrated story about Lily, a little girl in second grade who has difficulty reading ; but with the help of her mother and her reading buddy, Grace, Lily is able to read her page on Parent's Day.

Presents an alphabetical listing over 18,000 recommended books for students in kindergarten through eighth grade, each with notations on level, genre, word count, author/series, and publisher/distributor, and includes a second list organized by reading level.

Presents over 130 strategies for improving reading comprehension, focusing on a method of reading, reflection, and retelling, and includes ninety reproducible worksheets.

Explores the elements of a quality literacy program for grades three through six, describing a three-block framework for language and word study, reading, and writing; and discussing independent and guided reading, literature study, comprehension and word analysis, and the reading and writing connection.

Contains fifty reproducible activity sheets for individual reading practice, designed for students in grades three through six, and includes tips on managing classroom literacy centers.