Reluctant Readers: Special Client Group 23-24

In this book, the author combines ELA standards with her favorite books to build a lesson structure you can use in two ways: with an entire text or with just the excerpts she's included in the book. Each section includes: lessons; prompt pages; excerpts-to-write about pages; write-about-reading templates; and writing tasks.

"This authoritative text and PreK-12 teacher resource is now in a substantially revised seventh edition with 80% new material, foregrounding advances in inclusive, equitable instruction. Teachers are guided through every major component of reading, as well as assessment, motivation, teaching bilingual learners, strengthening connections with families and communities, and more. The book presents principles and strategies for teaching literature and nonfiction texts, organizing and differentiating instruction, supporting struggling readers, and promoting digital literacy."

In this comprehensive guide, a literacy coach and staff developer Sara Kugler shows you how to combine the power of book clubs with assessment-driven instruction to support your students as they talk and think about texts together.

Turn any student into a bookworm with a few easy and practical strategies.... Donalyn Miller says she has yet to meet a child she can't turn into a reader. No matter how far behind Miller's students might be when they reach her 6th grade classroom, they end up reading an average of 40 to 50 books a year.

"This book provides innovative tools and strategies to support reading intervention for students in grades 3-8 who do not yet read with grade-level accuracy. Uniquely comprehensive, the Interactive Strategies Approach--Extended (ISA-X) has been shown to enhance intermediate and middle grade students' reading accuracy and comprehension as well as content vocabulary knowledge."

Help struggling readers succeed by teaching four research-based comprehension strategies with sample lessons and a gradual-release approach leading to student-directed learning.

Many striving readers in grades four through twelve have lost their self-confidence and the belief that, with hard work, they can reach a goal. Whether these students were on a computer reading program, in a grade-level basal program, or listening to a required novel, they weren't reading. Research by Allington, Krashen, Howard, Miller, and Ripp points to the need for students to read wonderful books to develop reading skill and expertise. Voluminous reading is an intervention. This book suggests ways to organize instruction so students in ELA classes and across the curriculum read voluminously every day.

[Audiobook] How do we inspire students to love reading and discovery? In Passionate Readers: The Art of Reaching and Engaging Every Child, classroom teacher, author, and speaker Pernille Ripp reveals the five keys to creating a passionate reading environment. You'll learn how to . . . - Use your own reading identity to create powerful reading experiences for all students - Empower your students and their reading experience by focusing on your physical classroom environment - Create and maintain an enticing, well-organized, easy-to-use classroom library; - Build a learning community filled with choice and student ownership; and - Guide students to further develop their own reading identity to cement them as life-long, invested readers.

The classic million-copy bestselling handbook on reading aloud to children—revised and updated for a new generation of readers
Recommended by "Dear Abby" upon its first publication in 1982, millions of parents and educators have turned to Jim Trelease's beloved classic for more than three decades to help countless children become avid readers through awakening their imaginations and improving their language skills. Jim Trelease's Read-Aloud Handbook, updated and revised by education specialist Cyndi Giorgis, discusses the benefits, the rewards, and the importance of reading aloud to children of a new generation.

The book is filled with a collection of literacy tools, such as virtual book clubs, video and animated book talks, and writer's wikis, as well as strategies for leveraging these resources in class. Educators at all levels can use the resources and instructional methods in this book to boost digital literacy for all students.

Bring the science of reading directly into the classroom! Developed for Grades 3-5, this resource provides teachers with meaningful, research-based strategies to boost students' reading and writing skills.

"The book uses the metaphor of a mask (Invisibility, Anger, Class Clown, etc.) our most challenging students wear to hide their reasons not to engage in reading and writing"-- Provided by publisher