language experience approach

Sharon Taberski shares the lessons she has learned throughout her teaching career and explains how she enhances her students' interest in reading.

Explains how teachers can use the process conference approach in their classrooms to improve students' writing and reading skills and boost their comprehension.

Explains what happens while children read with adults and examines how those reading experiences can help children improve their reading skills and comprehension.

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

Ideas on how to use thirty-five books in the curriculum to help reluctant readers in grades two to five.

The author assists educators moving towards more meaning-focused approaches in reading and writing--"whole language.".

Introduces elementary school students to six areas of the world--Australia, Hawaii, Japan, Italy, Kenya, and Brazil.