Reading Skills category: 338 books
by Joshua BishopRoby
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Dive into the science of life, expanding students' scientific horizons with 15 engaging topics ranging from genetics and cells to ecosystems and taxonomy. This resource provides suggestions for differentiating instruction to meet the needs to all readers and offers four visually identical texts for...
by Harry Nap
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
Kanji Alchemy is a reallocation of Japanese characters with an emphasis on 490 singular characters that provide a meaningful context for learning 2136 General Use
(Kanji Alchemy I), 861 Jinmei (Kanji Alchemy II) and 3463 Non General Use kanji (Kanji Alchemy III). The 490 "signature" characters...
Building Comprehension in Every Classroom
Instruction with Literature, Informational Texts, and Basal Programs
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
This book presents a practical model and specific unit- and lesson-planning ideas for enhancing students' reading comprehension in any 2-8 classroom. The authors provide innovative suggestions that help teachers construct a comprehension curriculum organized around literature, informational texts,...
Using Paired Text to Meet the Common Core
Effective Teaching across the K-8 Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Teaching students to make connections across related texts promotes engagement and improves reading comprehension and content learning. This practical guide explains how to select and teach a wide range of picture books as paired text--two books related by topic, theme, or genre--in grades K-8. The...
Overcoming Dyslexia
A New and Complete Science-Based Program for Reading Problems at Any Level
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2008
by Mark Edmundson
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
In this important book, acclaimed author Mark Edmundson reconceives the value and promise of reading. He enjoins educators to stop offering up literature as facile entertainment and instead teach students to read in a way that can change their lives for the better. At once controversial and inspiring,...
How to Write a Sentence
And How to Read One
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
“Like a long periodic sentence, this book rumbles along, gathers steam, shifts gears, and packs a wallop.”
—Roy Blount Jr.
“Language lovers will flock to this homage to great writing.”
—Booklist
Outspoken New York Times columnist Stanley Fish offers an entertaining, erudite...
Learning to Read
Get Enticed By Good Books
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
This book was designed to help parents help their children become proficient readers and writers. The book also can be used by professors and graduate students to help children who struggle with reading to become readers and writers.
Hell and Back
Reflections on Writers and Writing from Dante to Rushdie
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
The author of the New York Times Notable Book Italian Neighbors shares his insights on classic and modern literature.
In this brilliant collection of essays, Tim Parks, a celebrated novelist and master of the essay form, offers a wide range of wonderfully challenging and always provocative reflections...
Creating Critical Classrooms
Reading and Writing with an Edge
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
This popular text articulates a powerful theory of critical literacy—in all its complexity. Critical literacy practices encourage students to use language to question the everyday world, interrogate the relationship between language and power, analyze popular culture and media, understand how power...
Best Practices of Literacy Leaders
Keys to School Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Bringing together leading experts, this book presents the principles of effective literacy leadership and describes proven methods for improving instruction, assessment, and schoolwide professional development. The book shows how all school staff--including reading specialists and coaches, administrators,...
by Lois Lowry
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Jonas lives in a supposedly utopian society, but he discovers that it is really a dystopia and plans to escape when he learns the dark secrets that underlie the fragile perfection of his world. This instructional guide for literature will encourage early readers to explore the text in this story of...
by Homer
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Aid students as they explore a mythical world, and analyze and comprehend a timeless story. The Odyssey: An Instructional Guide for Literature provides rigorous and appealing cross-curricular lessons and activities to teach students to analyze story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading...
by Chris DiPaolo
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
This sight word list includes 52 Kindergarten level sight words and 20 sight nouns. Sight words can be known by many names including High-frequency words, Dolch words, Fry words, Instant words and Star words.
To make it easy and fun to practice reading with your child these flash...