Reading Skills category: 338 books
Reading in a Participatory Culture
Remixing Moby-Dick in the English Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Building on the groundbreaking research of the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media & Learning initiative, this book crosses the divide between digital literacies and traditional print culture to engage a generation of students who can read with a book in one hand and a mouse in the other.Reading...
by Desmond Gahan
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Many people read at an average rate of 250 words per minute. This means that an average page in a book or document would take you 1-2 minutes to read.
However, imagine if you could double your rate to 500 words per minute. You could zip through all of this content in half the time. You could...
Reading Upside Down
Identifying and Addressing Opportunity Gaps in Literacy Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Reading Upside Down offers a paradigm shift from achievement gaps to opportunity gaps in literacy instruction. Drawing on the author’s rich experiences working one-on-one with challenged readers, this book presents case studies illustrating the complexities of student learning experiences and...
by Robb, Laura
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017
In this must-read book, Laura Robb uses what she's learned from her vast teaching experience to provide the research-based tools needed to improve students' reading comprehension. This practical resource offers classroom-tested interventions to use with struggling readers provided in 5-, 10 to 15-,...
by Shiyu Wu
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
This book focuses on the effects of L1 cognitive resources on L2 reading e.g. the effects of L1 reading ability, the ability in L1 mental-structure building, L1 cognitive use in L2 reading, and other related cognitive mechanisms and capacities of EFL learners in China. It integrated test-based and...
by Shelley B. Wepner, Dorothy S. Strickland, Diana J. Quatroche
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Now in its fifth edition, this popular textbook is still the most comprehensive resource available on the oversight of literacy programs (pre-K–12). Focusing on what literacy leaders need to know and do to meet today’s mandates, experts in the field offer new insights that reflect the...
by Nooreiny Maarof
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Assessing Second Language Reading is addressed to both teacher-trainees and to those interested in the teaching and learning of reading in a second or foreign language. It is specifically for teachers who are interested in an alternative method of assessing readers reading comprehension for both research...
by Catherine Sheldrick Ross
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Based on years of ground-breaking research, this book supplies a look at the unique relationship between each text and the individual reader that results in a satisfying, pleasurable, and even life-changing reading experience.
• Supplies succinct, authoritative, and readable accounts on a...
"You Gotta BE the Book"
Teaching Engaged and Reflective Reading with Adolescents
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This award-winning book continues to resonate with teachers and inspire their teaching because it focuses on the joy of reading and how it can engage and even transform readers. In a time of next generation standards that emphasize higher-order strategies, text complexity, and the reading of nonfiction,...
by Joseph Dimino Ph.D., Diane Haager Ph.D., Michelle Windmueller Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Help transform struggling K–3 students into skillful, enthusiastic readers—in just 20 to 30 minutes a day! It's all possible with the NEW edition of this bestselling curriculum supplement, your key to helping all students grasp the five Big Ideas of early literacy: phonological awareness, the...
In My Own Voice. Reading from My Collected Works. More Assorted Selection
In My Own Voice. Reading from My Collected Works, #2
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
In this book, I take you to a place where every writer ought to go, but so few even know it exists. I am talking about reading aloud what you've written. The whole point of writing is to motivate a fellow human being, to seize their mind, their brain, their entire being, and suffuse it with your thoughts,...
by Katherine A. Dougherty Stahl, EdD, Michael C. McKenna
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
From leading experts, this indispensable resource presents a practical model for conducting reading assessments for screening, diagnosis, and progress monitoring in each of the three tiers of response to intervention (RTI). K-8 teachers and school personnel are guided to use norm-referenced, informal,...
The Word
Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Critically acclaimed Black writers reveal how books have shaped their personal lives—in often unexpected ways.
In these thirteen strikingly candid interviews, bestselling authors, winners of the Pulitzer Prize, and writers picked by Oprah’s Book Club discuss how the acts of reading and writing...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Books
The History and Future of Reading
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2019
Reports of the death of reading are greatly exaggerated
Do you worry that you've lost patience for anything longer than a tweet? If so, you're not alone. Digital-age pundits warn that as our appetite for books dwindles, so too do the virtues in which printed, bound objects once trained us:...