Teaching Reading

Strategies and Resources for Grades K-6

Elementary teachers of reading have one essential goal to prepare diverse children to be independent, strategic readers in real life. This innovative text helps preservice and inservice teachers achieve this goal by providing knowledge and research-based strategies for teaching phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, all aspects of comprehension, and writing in response to literature. Special features include sample lessons and photographs of literacy-rich classrooms. Uniquely interactive, the text is complete with pencil-and-paper exercises and reproducibles that facilitate learning, making it ideal for course use. Readers are invited to respond to reflection questions, design lessons, and start constructing a professional teaching portfolio.

Rachael, a grade 6 literacy and social studies teacher, and Anita, a reading
specialist, began planning a series of reading comprehension lessons for
Rachael's class. Earlier in the school year, during social studies instruction,
Rachael had ...