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Direct linkCollins, Kathy – Stenhouse Publishers, 2004
Primary-grade teachers face an important challenge: teaching children how to read while enabling them to build good habits so they fall in love with reading. Many teachers find the independent reading workshop to be the component of reading instruction that meets this challenge because it makes it possible to teach the reading skills and…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Independent Reading, Workshops
Block, Cathy Collins; Rodgers, Lori L.; Johnson, Rebecca B. – Guilford Publications, 2004
Filling a crucial gap in the literature, this immensely practical volume presents innovative tools for helping K-3 students significantly increase their ability to make meaning from texts. The focus is on teaching the comprehension processes employed by expert readers, using a carefully sequenced combination of whole-class activities, specially…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes, Teaching Methods
