reading (elementary)

"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.

Contains seven units of study that provide teachers with lessons and techniques for helping children in first grade develop the ability to decode and understand a variety of texts.

In their follow-up to Reading Wellness, Jan Burkins and Kim Yaris explore how some traditional scaffolding practices may actually rob students of important learning opportunities and independence. Who s Doing the Work? suggests ways to make small but powerful adjustments to instruction that hold students accountable for their own learning.

Provides teachers in grades kindergarten through five with advice, strategies, and sample lessons designed to help their students move beyond leveled books and into more difficult materials; and discusses the uses and limitations of leveled books in kindergarten and first grade as well as how to organize a classroom library.

Presents a model for guided reading instruction that fits the 18-minute time frame, including strategies, processes, sequential practical lesson routines, and suggestions for selecting appropriate texts.