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Best Practices for Teaching Reading

What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do

By: Randi Stone

Enrich your reading instruction with classroom-proven strategies from the nation's best teachers!

Randi Stone brings readers into the classrooms of award-winning teachers who share their outstanding strategies for teaching reading to elementary, middle, and high school learners with diverse learning styles and abilities. This collection of best practices presents ways to build students' decoding and vocabulary skills while developing their comprehension and motivation for reading. With 40 classroom-tested strategies, this book provides practical guidance to help students:

Get excited about reading
Make connections to different texts
Become effective writers as well as readers
Use literacy skills across the curriculum

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Grade Level: K-12
ISBN: 9781412924597
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2008
Page Count: 176
Publication date: October 08, 2008

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"Very logical and easy to follow. Teachers can easily incorporate these ideas in their teaching."
—Susan Bailey, Middle School Reading Specialist
Mequon-Thiensville School District, WI

Enrich your reading instruction with classroom-proven strategies from the nation's best teachers!

Following the successful format of the companion volumes for teaching writing, mathematics, science, and social studies, Best Practices for Teaching Reading presents firsthand accounts of teachers' most successful instructional strategies and lessons for teaching reading. Randi Stone brings readers into the classrooms of award-winning teachers who share their outstanding strategies for reaching elementary, middle, and high school learners with diverse learning styles and abilities.

With 40 classroom-tested strategies, the book provides practical guidance for building students' decoding and vocabulary skills while developing their comprehension and motivation for reading. This collection of best practices presents ways to help students:

Get excited about reading
Make connections to different texts
Become effective writers as well as readers
Use literacy skills across the curriculum

Veteran and new teachers alike will find an abundance of fresh ideas to teach reading while helping students build confidence, increase academic achievement, and develop critical thinking skills.

Key features

Tried and tested best practices from the classrooms of award-winning teachers
Offers strategies for teaching reading skills to learners with diverse learning styles and competencies
Covers working with school and district reading coaches and consultants, preparing students for reading tests, ways to promote family and community literacy, and more

Author(s)

Randi Stone

Randi Stone is the author of nine Corwin Press books: Best Practices for Teaching Reading: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, Best Practices for Teaching Social Studies: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, Best Practices for Teaching Writing: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, Best Practices for Teaching Mathematics: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, and Best Practices for Teaching Science: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do. She is a graduate of Clark University, Boston University, and Salem State College. She completed her doctorate in education at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Contributors

Part I. Reading in the K-6 Classrooms

Section A. Motivating Students to Read

1. Reading From the First Day of School

2. Ten Steps to Great Readers

3. All for the Love of Reading: A Book Is a Gift

4. Establishing a Summer Reading Program

Section B. Developing Reading Skills

5. Teaching Reading Strategies Through the Analysis of Visual Art

6. Using Word Work to Improve Decoding

7. Reading Aloud: Comprehending, Not Word Calling

8. Comprehension: Making Connections to Text

Section C. Reading Literature Across the Curriculum

9. Incorporating Drama and Writing: Performing a Mystery Play

10. Social Studies: Reading About Life in the 1800s

11. Social Studies: Reading the Vietnam Memorial Wall

12. To Read or Not to Read: Shakespeare With Fourth Graders

13. Reaching Fifth Graders With Novel Study

Section D. Differentiating Instruction

14. Reading Kinesthetically

15. Reading and Writing: A Reciprocal Process

16. Reading Beyond the Lines: Students With Autistic Disorders

17. Encouraging Biliteracy

Part II. Reading in Grades 7-12

Section A. Motivating Students to Read

18. Reflective Practice in the Teaching of Adolescent Reading

19. I Hate Reading!

20. The "I Hate Reading" Club

21. You Simply Need to Love It!

Section B. Developing Reading Skills

22. Digging Deeper for Comprehension

23. Using Wonder Journals to Teach Research Reading and Writing Skills

24. Make It Your Own! A Vocabulary Activity

Section C. Reading Across the Curriculum

25. Teaching Reading in the Math Classroom

26. Reading the Language of Mathematics

27. "Who in the World Are You?" An Interdisciplinary Project

28. Using Self-Publishing as a Gateway for Critical Reading

Section D. Differentiating Instruction

29. Score a BINGO in Reading

30. Short-Cycle Assessment in a Reading Workshop: A Collaboration Between Teacher and Student

Index

Reviews

"This book allows teachers to read about how other teachers support literacy learning in a variety of contexts."

Mary Alice Barksdale, Associate Professor
Virginia Tech

"There is superb material in this text, and teachers at various grade levels will find many good practices."

Sara E. Spruce, Professor of Education
Olivet Nazarene University

"Teachers can collaborate through the pages of this book."

Jill E. Cole, Associate Professor of Education
Wesley College

"Readers can leave feeling like they can go forward and do something with what they have read."

Emma Barnes, Literacy Facilitator
Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools, NC

"Very logical and easy to follow. Teachers can easily see how they can incorporate these ideas in their teaching."

Susan Bailey, Middle School Reading Specialist
Mequon-Thiensville School District, WI

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