reading (elementary)

Activities for teaching literature based reading, writing, and thinking.

Offers teachers practical strategies to help them set reading goals for their students, assess student progress, and adjust instructional strategies in response to students' needs.

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.