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"Trust Me! I Can Read": Building from Strengths in the High School English Classroom. Language & Literacy Series
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Lamping, Sally; Blase, Dean Woodring – Teachers College Press, 2012
This innovative guide shows teachers how to transform high-school English students into passionate readers with a trust-based approach that honors both student choice and teacher expertise. The authors begin with a series of reflective invitations to help teachers rediscover trust in themselves and in their students. The book offers methods for…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Independent Reading, English Instruction, Thematic Approach
Reading for Understanding: How Reading Apprenticeship Improves Disciplinary Learning in Secondary and College Classrooms. Second Edition
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Schoenbach, Ruth; Greenleaf, Cynthia; Murphy, Lynn – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2012
Published in partnership with WestEd, this significantly updated second edition of the bestselling book contains strategies for helping students in middle school through community college gain the reading independence to master subject area textbooks and other material. Features of this book include: (1) Based on the Reading Apprenticeship…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Textbooks, Reading Improvement, Reading Achievement
Guiding Readers and Writers, Grades 3-6: Teaching Comprehension, Genre, and Content Literacy.
Fountas, Irene C.; Pinnell, Gay Su – 2001
Exploring all the essential components of a quality upper elementary literacy program, this book is a resource for fostering success that will enable students to enjoy a future filled with literacy journeys. Sections of the book address: special help for struggling readers and writers; a basic structure of the literacy program within a framework…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Independent Reading, Literature Appreciation
Boosting Reading Success: Language, Literacy, and Content Area Instruction for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students--and Bilingual Students, and Students Learning English as a Second Language, and Everyone Else Who Needs a Little Help.
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Schirmer, Barbara R. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 1997
Discusses strategies that teachers can use to support children with and without disabilities in comprehending reading material. Factors contributing to text readability, language learning for students who are deaf or hard of hearing, and strategies for in-class text reading and independent text reading are described. (CR)
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Classroom Techniques, Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education
Quelques impacts de la lecture sur l'acquisition du savoir ecrire: une recension des ecrits (Some Impacts of Reading on Acquisition of Writing Skills: An Overview of the Literature).
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Belanger, Claire – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1991
It is proposed that both home and classroom reading activities influence writing skill acquisition. Relevant research in first- and second-language learning is reviewed and use of reading and independent reading to enhance writing skill acquisition is discussed. Extensive use of these activities in the French immersion classroom is recommended.…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, French, Immersion Programs
Literacy Instruction for Today.
Au, Kathryn H.; And Others – 1995
This book shows elementary school teachers how to help students become confident readers and writers who can use skills they acquire throughout their lives, from a constructivist orientation. It is intended as a main text for an introductory course on elementary-school reading instruction, typically taken by undergraduates in their second or third…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Constructivism (Learning), Elementary Education, Emergent Literacy