Best Practices for Teaching Reading: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do - Softcover

Stone, Randi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1620878763 ISBN 13: 9781620878767

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

Following the successful format of the companion volumes for teaching writing, mathematics, science, and social studies, Best Practices for Teaching Reading presents firsthand accounts of outstanding instructional strategies and lessons for teaching reading to students in both elementary and secondary school. Randi Stone brings readers into the classrooms of more than twenty-five award-winning teachers who share their unique and creative strategies for reaching elementary and secondary learners with diverse learning styles and abilities. From getting fourth-grade students excited to study Shakespeare to creating “wonder journals” to incorporating reading in the math classroom, these teachers have tried it all!

With forty classroom-tested strategies, Best Practices for Teaching Reading provides practical guidance for building students’ decoding and vocabulary skills while developing their comprehension and motivation for reading. This collection of best practices presents useful tips in getting students to:

· Get excited about reading

· Make connections between different texts

· Become effective writers as well as readers

· Use literacy skills across the curriculum

Veteran and new teachers alike will find an abundance of fresh ideas to teach reading while helping students build confidence, increase academic achievement, and develop critical thinking skills.

About this title

Review

"This book allows teachers to read about how other teachers support literacy learning in a variety of contexts." (Mary Alice Barksdale, Associate Professor 2008-03-28)

"There is superb material in this text, and teachers at various grade levels will find many good practices." (Sara E. Spruce, Professor of Education 2008-03-28)

"Teachers can collaborate through the pages of this book." (Jill E. Cole, Associate Professor of Education 2008-03-28)

"Readers can leave feeling like they can go forward and do something with what they have read." (Emma Barnes, Literacy Facilitator 2008-07-01)

"Very logical and easy to follow. Teachers can easily see how they can incorporate these ideas in their teaching." (Susan Bailey, Middle School Reading Specialist 2008-07-02)

About the Author

Randi Stone is the author of nine Corwin Press books: Best Practices for Teaching Reading: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, Best Practices for Teaching Social Studies: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, Best Practices for Teaching Writing: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, Best Practices for Teaching Mathematics: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, and Best Practices for Teaching Science: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do. She is a graduate of Clark University, Boston University, and Salem State College. She completed her doctorate in education at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

Edition details

• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1620878763
• ISBN 13: 9781620878767
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176