Survival Reading Skills for Secondary Students, All Tools - Softcover

Miller, Wilma H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0787965979 ISBN 13: 9780787965976

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 2003

Synopsis

Survival Reading Skills for Secondary Students is your guide for working with struggling students in grades 5-12 no matter what their reading ability. This valuable resource is a down-to-earth guide that contains countless classroom-tested strategies that reading and content area teachers can use to reinforce skills that students must master to read effectively. In addition, the book offers ready-to-use activity sheets designed to improve competency in a number of relevant reading skills. Students will learn how to fill in a job application, read an airline schedule, apply for a driver's license, and practice many more useful real-life skills. For quick access and easy use, the book is organized in seven sections and printed in a big 8 " X 11" lay-flat format for easy photocopying. The following is just a small sample of the many strategies, assessments, inventories, and activities featured in each section: 1. I NFORMAL READING ASSESSMENT TOOLS FOR OLDER STUDENTS : Includes a Content Reading Inventory. . . lists of sample words from a range of content areas including English, social studies, science, and mathematics&an informal assessment to determine a student's approximate instructional reading level. 2. STRATEGIES AND ACTIVITIES FOR IMPROVING SKILLS TO IDENTIFY CONTENT SIGHT WORDS: Provides reproducible copies of words needed for computer literacy . . . strategies for improving students' ability to recognize and identify important content and daily-living words . . . activities that include a reversed crossword puzzle and a magic square from science. 3. STRATEGIES AND ACTIVITIES FOR IMPROVING BASIC PHONIC SKILLS : Contains the basic phonic elements in which older students should be competent . . . seven helpful phonic generalizations . . . activity sheets that challenge students to complete a shopping list and discover a secret code.

About this title

About the Author:

Wilma H. Miller, Ed.D. is professor emerita of Reading Education at Illinois State University in Normal, where she taught for 30 years. Dr. Miller has written nearly 200 published journal articles dealing with various aspects of reading, and she is the author of numerous books including: The Reading Teachers Survival Kit, Phonics First, Ready-to-Use Activities & Material for Improving Content Reading Skills and Reading Skills Problem Solver, all from Jossey-Bass.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0787965979
• ISBN 13: 9780787965976
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352