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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
Goldberg, Gravity; Serravallo, Jennifer – Heinemann, 2007
A great reading conference only takes five minutes, but its impact can last a lifetime. That is because conferences are the critical, one-to-one teaching that forms the backbone of reading instruction. This book shows teachers how to confer well and demonstrates why a few moments with students every week can put them on the path to becoming…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Reading Strategies, Independent Reading, Reading Instruction
Johns, Jerry L.; Berglund, Roberta L. – International Reading Association (NJ3), 2006
This book presents numerous practical strategies and assessment tools teachers can use immediately to strengthen students' fluency skills in regular classrooms and in resource rooms. This new third edition offers: (1) Concise answers to teachers' questions; (2) Evidence-based strategies; (3) Practical activities; (4) Resources to develop students'…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Reading Fluency, Reading Strategies
Glazer, Susan Mandel – 1992
Based on the philosophy that children learn best in functional, natural settings when a desire for learning persists, this book provides classroom-tested strategies for teaching children how to monitor and improve their own comprehension as they read a variety of texts. The goal of the book is to empower students to become successful, independent…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Independent Reading, Metacognition
Collins, 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
Taschow, Horst G. – 1985
Written from a psycholinguistic perspective to assist teachers-in-training to prepare for reading instruction in grades one through eight, this book can clarify basic issues in reading as well as supplement current knowledge. The three major parts into which this book is divided examine reading in the "human context," the "teaching context," and…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Content Area Reading, Elementary Education