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Expanding Reading Comprehension in Grades 3-6: Effective Instruction for All Students
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Stahl, Katherine A. Dougherty; García, Georgia Earnest – Guilford Press, 2022
Students in grades 3-6 need to use increasingly sophisticated comprehension skills and strategies as they read and build knowledge across disciplinary content areas. Grounded in research, this book presents effective practices for integrating literacy instruction with literature, science, and social studies. Chapters address text selection,…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Bilingualism, Student Diversity
Teaching Skills for Complex Text: Deepening Close Reading in the Classroom. Common Core State Standards in Literacy Series
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Mesmer, Heidi Anne E. – Teachers College Press, 2016
Tired of hearing about "complex text"? Bothered by the pushy messages about "challenge"? This book is for you! Unlike the many other materials on text complexity, this one focuses on specific comprehension skills that students need in order to really engage with text. This book will help elementary school teachers equip their…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
RTI Strategies That Work in the 3-6 Classroom
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Johnson, Eli; Karns, Michelle – Eye on Education, 2012
This is a must-have resource for educators committed to meeting the needs of their struggling students in Grades 3-6. Teachers get a whole toolbox filled with research-based, easy to implement RTI interventions that really work! Get strategies in five core areas--plus correlations to the Common Core State Standards and effective scaffolding tips…
Descriptors: Writing Strategies, State Standards, Reading Strategies, Second Language Learning
Comprehension from the Ground Up: Simplified, Sensible Instruction for the K-3 Reading Workshop
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Taberski, Sharon – Heinemann, 2010
The author cuts through the pressurized, strategy-overloaded, fluency-crazed atmosphere surrounding reading instruction to lay out the reading and writing workshop practices that are most effective in developing readers in the primary grades. She shares the daily how-tos needed to sustain a literacy block that engages children in authentic reading…
Descriptors: Independent Reading, Oral Language, Writing Processes, Study Guides
The Reading Club: A Guide to a Literacy Intervention Program for Reluctant Readers in Spanish and English
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Henn-Reinke, Kathryn – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2004
As a result of recent federal legislation, school districts are being required to have all students reading at grade level by the year 2012. Such an exceedingly lofty goal cannot be achieved without powerful intervention programs. Here is a guide for districts and schools that outlines an intervention program for students in grades 1-3 who…
Descriptors: Intervention, Federal Legislation, Reading Programs, Literacy
Building Literacy Communities. The Thirty-Second Yearbook: A Doubled Peer Reviewed Publication of the Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers
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Szabo, Susan, Ed.; Morrison, Timothy, Ed.; Martin, Linda, Ed.; Boggs, Merry, Ed.; Raine, I. LaVerne, Ed. – Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers, 2010
For its 53rd annual meeting, the Association of Educators and Researchers met in Charlotte, North Carolina at the Marriott Charlotte City Center. This year's conference theme was "Building Literacy Communities", which was also used as the title for this year's Yearbook, Volume 32. This organization has long been the home of some of the nation's…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Influence of Technology, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction