reading (elementary)

Provides strategies for assessing students' reading comprehension, including four fiction and nonfiction reading passages for each grade level from first through eighth grade and rubrics for each. Includes CD-ROM.

Provides sixty-four effective comprehension lessons designed to help elementary school teachers incorporate reading comprehension into their curriculum.

Month-by-month strategies for running a reading workshop across an entire school year; and provides instructional strategies, how-tos for organizing, ideas for lessons, and assessment and evaluation techniques.

"Provides a research-based context for cultivating children's intrinsic motivation to read and identifies three essential principles, the "ARC" of motivation--access: giving kids a wealth of reading materials and opportunities to discuss texts; relevance: offering high interest, moderately challenging and authentic reading experiences; and choice: allowing students to self-select texts and reading activities."--Back cover.

"In a time when reading instruction is being marginalized and replaced with scripted reading programs, Independent reading : creating lifelong readers gives concrete suggestions for creating independent reading programs that make a difference. In a hands-on, approachable style, authors Barbara Moss and Terrell Young show you how to effectively reestablish independent reading as a central focus in your K-6 classroom"--Page 4 of cover.

A collection of songs and rhymes designed to help students in first and second grade improve their reading skills.