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Reading Power: Teaching Students to Think While They Read, Second Edition. Revised and Expanded
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Gear, Adrienne – Stenhouse Publishers, 2015
Since "Reading Power" was launched ten years ago in an elementary school in Vancouver, it has evolved into a recognized approach to comprehension instruction being implemented across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and China. This groundbreaking approach shows teachers how to help students think while they…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Programs, Reading Comprehension, Teaching Methods
Which Book and Why: Using Book Bands and Book Levels for Guided Reading in Key Stage 1 [Includes CD-ROM]
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Bodman, Sue, Ed.; Franklin, Glen, Ed. – Trentham Books, 2014
We want all children to love reading, and Which Book and Why demonstrates how effective guided reading for children in Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 can help teachers make this happen. Balancing theory and practice, this book explores how schools and teachers can implement guided reading more confidently and more effectively. Which Book and Why…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Instruction, Theory Practice Relationship, Teaching Methods
Changing Classroom Practice through the English National Literacy Strategy: A Micro-Interactional Perspective
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Lefstein, Adam – American Educational Research Journal, 2008
How and why is national policy translated into interactions between teachers and pupils? This article examines the enactment of the English National Literacy Strategy (NLS) in a case study of two literacy lessons, which are drawn from a yearlong ethnographic study of the NLS in one school. Although the teacher taught directly from and adhered…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Ethnography, Literacy, Reading Instruction
Let's Try That Word Again in a New Way! Helping Failing Readers To Learn High Frequency Words.
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Moran, Heather; And Others – British Journal of Special Education, 1996
Using a personalized word association method, six children with persistent reading difficulties in two British elementary schools were instructed in recognizing 100 common words. All children made significant progress, with the most progress made by those who originally had the smallest sight vocabularies. Students who devised their own sentences…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Foreign Countries, Instructional Effectiveness, Primary Education
Dyslexic, Retarded, and Normal Readers' Perceptions of the Qualities of Real and Ideal Class Teachers.
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Hicks, Carolyn – British Educational Research Journal, 1990
Discusses a report in which eight dyslexic, eight mentally disabled, and eight normal readers were asked to rank nine qualities both of their classroom teacher and of an ideal teacher. Discovers that comparisons of ideal and actual teacher ratings within each group demonstrated significant concordance for the normal and disabled groups, but not…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Disabilities, Dyslexia, Foreign Countries
Planning and Resourcing "A" Level French: A Handbook for Teachers.
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Pickering, Robin – 1992
This handbook provides a detailed discussion of curriculum design for advanced French language instruction in British secondary schools, intended to assist in planning during a period of rapid educational change and newly mandated curricula. An introductory section offers background information on those developments, both statutory and…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages)