Through specific examples, real-life scenarios, and diagrams, this book vividly conveys the most fundamental and effective tactics for boosting reading proficiency while enhancing student and teacher performance.
"The clear explanations and examples make the book easy to read and understand so strategies can be immediately implemented in the classroom. This text will be an excellent addition to any teacher′s professional library." —Carol Gallegos, Literacy Coach Hanford Elementary School District, CA Give your elementary school students the tools to become thoughtful, high-achieving readers! Strong reading skills are critical for students as they progress through the grade levels and face the reading challenges of the 21st century. Using research-based, differentiated strategies, Richard W. Strong, Harvey F. Silver, and Matthew J. Perini show how you can teach average or low-performing readers to become A+ readers who can comprehend, analyze, and summarize different kinds of texts. Starting with a concise overview of recent research on successful readers, the authors explore seven key areas and corresponding strategies to help all readers achieve at high levels: identifying the main idea, reading fluency, vocabulary, inferential reading, questioning techniques, informal writing, and reading styles. Complementing the best-selling Reading for Academic Success for grades 7–12, this hands-on guide features: Practical applications that can be used across content areas and to support individual learning styles The five common characteristics of A+ readers and special tips for nurturing those abilities in all students Recommendations and tools for helping English Language Learners and students with special needs Examples of student work and reproducible graphic organizers Expressly designed for elementary school teachers, Reading for Academic Success, Grades 2–6, offers proven methods that can produce significant gains for all students and far-reaching results for your school!
Mastering second grade reading and writing is fun and exciting with this book that combines language arts activities with puzzles and humor to lower the barriers to learning and build essential skills. Reading and writing are two of the most important building blocks for future learning, and Highlights(TM) brings Fun with a Purpose® into these essential activities for second graders. Our award-winning content blends reading and writing skills with puzzles, humor, and playful art, which makes learning exciting and fun. Second grade reading and writing skills such as phonics, word recognition, and key ideas will help students improve and will build confidence in the classroom.
Presents initial and final vowel and consonant combinations and word roots for beginning spellers and those with learning difficulties such as dyslexia.
"In this book, structured literacy is conceptualized as an umbrella term encompassing a variety of intervention methods, instructional approaches, and commercial programs. In addition to focusing on SL approaches to intervention, this book is organized around common poor reader profiles that have been identified in research. The chapters in this volume are written by experts who are well known as researchers but who are also highly skilled at writing for practitioners. Chapters were written with a strong foundation of research that is summarized, but with a concentration on translating research into practice, including case studies, sample intervention activities, and lesson plans. Each chapter includes application activities at the end to check for and extend readers' understanding"--
"This is an especially well-researched and documented text...the author's voice is one that is knowledgeable, yet does not intend to intimidate. She speaks to her audience as a dedicated professional to professional. I could only hope that my students would read and retain her words of wisdom." "-Anna L. Bolling, California State University-Stanislaus" "I haven't seen any books that come close to what Carol Olson has developed." "-Harry Noden, Kent State University" "The illustrations and scanned-in documents make Booth-Olson's book readable, interesting, relevant, and real-life. These visuals from actual students help transform her ideas from theory into practice." "-Kathy Bussert-Webb, The University of Texas at Brownsville" "This is the only secondary text that I have found to explain and provide authentic examples of reading/writing workshop process. The activities are practical and motivating. Hurray for Olson." "-Donna Uebler, Bradley University" Now in its second edition, "The Reading/Writing Connection "features an array of individual reading and writing strategies, activities, and mini-lessons that teachers can implement in their classrooms. Well-respected author Carol Booth Olson extends far beyond most books intended for teachers of language arts by integrating reading and writing in creative, theory-based ways. Lauded by students and professors as a clear and straightforward text, this revised and updated edition includes plenty of material about teaching the writing process and responding to literature, and provides examples of lessons that help readers learn specific strategies. Unique in its field, "The Reading/Writing Connection "provides student models at middle and high school levels in almost every chapter, illustrating actual student responses to reading and writing activities. The text is also rich with literary selections, giving teachers easy access to the literature featured in the activities and demonstration lessons. Features New to the Second Edition Extensive coverage of differentiated instruction for English Language Learners A new chapter entitled "Introducing Students to the Cognitive Strategies in Their Mental Tool Kits" that summarizes and clarifies students' use of cognitive strategies in their thinking An extensive and revised companion website that features reading and writing rubrics, student models, blackline masters of graphic organizers, and much more, available at www.ablongman.com/olson2e
In 36 weeks of systematic instruction, your sixth-graders will learn 131 key academic vocabulary words that they are likely to encounter in multiple subject areas and in assessment instruments. Examples of the words presented in grade 6+: - acquire, cite, implicit - characteristic, distinguish, infer - concise, exclude, irrelevant - connotation, feasible, strategic