200+ Proven Strategies for Teaching Reading, Grades K-8: support the needs of struggling readers

This book is unique in that it goes beyond individual teacher assistance to provide creative systems that work in concert with a student’s literacy education. This easy-to-use reference guide provides K–8 teachers with practical strategies to motivate all students to develop their reading abilities across grade levels and content areas. Focus on what early-literacy instruction and intervention struggling students should receive and what tips parents should know to help struggling readers. With instructional practices that can be adapted for a wide range of academic interventions, this book shows educators where to start in building an action plan for student literacy achievement. It is an ideal professional development resource for team study and discussion.

Benefits

  • Gain insight into the early signs of reading struggles.
  • Examine relevant theory and research related to literacy, including the fundamental elements of reading that need to work in balance in literacy instruction.
  • Review questioning strategies to help students broaden their understanding when reading challenging texts.
  • Explore graphic organizers that can engage higher-level thinking skills.
  • Survey a toolbox of instructional practices for supporting literacy in inclusive classrooms.
  • Study a blueprint for success for literacy programs.

Contents

Introduction

  1. The Struggling Reader
  2. Key Elements of Balanced Literacy Programs
  3. Effective Early Literacy Intervention
  4. Vocabulary Strategies—Helping Students Become Word Wise
  5. Graphic Organizers—Making Thinking Visible
  6. Content Strategies—Navigating Informational Text
  7. Questioning Techniques—Fostering Higher-Level Thinking
  8. Developing an Action Plan for Success

Appendix: Teacher’s Toolbox

References and Resources

Index

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200+ Proven Strategies for Teaching Reading, Grades K-8: support the needs of struggling readers

This book is unique in that it goes beyond individual teacher assistance to provide creative systems that work in concert with a student’s literacy education. This easy-to-use reference guide provides K–8 teachers with practical strategies to motivate all students to develop their reading abilities across grade levels and content areas. Focus on what early-literacy instruction and intervention struggling students should receive and what tips parents should know to help struggling readers. With instructional practices that can be adapted for a wide range of academic interventions, this book shows educators where to start in building an action plan for student literacy achievement. It is an ideal professional development resource for team study and discussion.

Benefits

  • Gain insight into the early signs of reading struggles.
  • Examine relevant theory and research related to literacy, including the fundamental elements of reading that need to work in balance in literacy instruction.
  • Review questioning strategies to help students broaden their understanding when reading challenging texts.
  • Explore graphic organizers that can engage higher-level thinking skills.
  • Survey a toolbox of instructional practices for supporting literacy in inclusive classrooms.
  • Study a blueprint for success for literacy programs.

Contents

Introduction

  1. The Struggling Reader
  2. Key Elements of Balanced Literacy Programs
  3. Effective Early Literacy Intervention
  4. Vocabulary Strategies—Helping Students Become Word Wise
  5. Graphic Organizers—Making Thinking Visible
  6. Content Strategies—Navigating Informational Text
  7. Questioning Techniques—Fostering Higher-Level Thinking
  8. Developing an Action Plan for Success

Appendix: Teacher’s Toolbox

References and Resources

Index

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200+ Proven Strategies for Teaching Reading, Grades K-8: support the needs of struggling readers

200+ Proven Strategies for Teaching Reading, Grades K-8: support the needs of struggling readers

by Kathy Perez
200+ Proven Strategies for Teaching Reading, Grades K-8: support the needs of struggling readers

200+ Proven Strategies for Teaching Reading, Grades K-8: support the needs of struggling readers

by Kathy Perez

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Overview

This book is unique in that it goes beyond individual teacher assistance to provide creative systems that work in concert with a student’s literacy education. This easy-to-use reference guide provides K–8 teachers with practical strategies to motivate all students to develop their reading abilities across grade levels and content areas. Focus on what early-literacy instruction and intervention struggling students should receive and what tips parents should know to help struggling readers. With instructional practices that can be adapted for a wide range of academic interventions, this book shows educators where to start in building an action plan for student literacy achievement. It is an ideal professional development resource for team study and discussion.

Benefits

  • Gain insight into the early signs of reading struggles.
  • Examine relevant theory and research related to literacy, including the fundamental elements of reading that need to work in balance in literacy instruction.
  • Review questioning strategies to help students broaden their understanding when reading challenging texts.
  • Explore graphic organizers that can engage higher-level thinking skills.
  • Survey a toolbox of instructional practices for supporting literacy in inclusive classrooms.
  • Study a blueprint for success for literacy programs.

Contents

Introduction

  1. The Struggling Reader
  2. Key Elements of Balanced Literacy Programs
  3. Effective Early Literacy Intervention
  4. Vocabulary Strategies—Helping Students Become Word Wise
  5. Graphic Organizers—Making Thinking Visible
  6. Content Strategies—Navigating Informational Text
  7. Questioning Techniques—Fostering Higher-Level Thinking
  8. Developing an Action Plan for Success

Appendix: Teacher’s Toolbox

References and Resources

Index


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781935542940
Publisher: Solution Tree Press
Publication date: 11/14/2016
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 160
File size: 2 MB

Table of Contents

About the Author ix

Introduction 1

The Knowledge Base: What Does the Research Say? 2

The Nature of Content: What Is It About? 3

The Primary Audience for This Book 3

Text Tour: A Roadmap of Chapters and Content 3

Final Thoughts 4

1 The Struggling Reader 5

Causes of Reading Comprehension Failure 6

How to Instill a Can-Do Spirit: Teaching the Struggling Reader 10

Final Thoughts 10

2 Key Elements of Balanced Literacy Programs 13

Phonics Instruction 14

Focus on Fluency 14

Vocabulary Instruction 15

Focus on Listening Comprehension 15

Focus on Text Comprehension 15

Focus on Written Expression 15

Continuous Assessment 16

School-Home Connection 16

Developing Strategic Readers 16

Using Higher-Level Thinking Skills 21

Making Sense of Text 21

Thinking Aloud 23

Final Thoughts 25

3 Effective Early Literacy Intervention 27

Early Intervention Strategies 27

A Look at the World Through Literacy 30

Word Decoding 30

A Focus on Strengths 31

Instructional Interventions for Young Struggling Readers 32

What Really Matters for Struggling Early Readers 42

Final Thoughts 42

4 Vocabulary Strategies: Helping Students Become Word Wise 43

Promoting Vocabulary Acquisition and Use 44

Promoting Word Consciousness 44

Providing Rich Language Experiences 46

Teaching Academic Vocabulary 49

Discovering the Wonder of Words 50

Final Thoughts 53

5 Graphic Organizers: Making Thinking Visible 55

The Power of Graphic Organizers to Structure Thinking 55

Types of Graphic Organizers 56

How to Choose a Graphic Organizer 61

Steps for Implementing Graphic Organizers 62

Final Thoughts 63

6 Content Strategies: Navigating Informational Text 65

Challenges of Informational Text 66

Strategies for Tackling Informational Text 66

Prereading Strategies 67

Strategies During Reading 74

Strategies After Reading 81

Final Thoughts 89

7 Questioning Techniques to Foster Higher-Level Thinking 91

Types of Questions 92

Considerations in Planning the Right Questions 93

Student-Generated Questions 95

Techniques to Consider 97

Question Cube 99

Final Thoughts 104

8 Developing an Action Plan for Success 105

Acceleration Versus Remediation 106

Instructional Accommodations to Consider 107

Flexible Grouping for Maximum Success 107

Keys to Direct Instruction and Interactive Teaching 108

How to Promote More for Struggling Readers 109

Best Practices for Looking at Literacy in Your Classroom 109

Final Thoughts 110

9 Teacher's Toolbox 111

30-Second Speech 111

ABC Summary 111

A-B Each Teach 111

Advertising 112

Agreement Circles 112

Best Test 112

Billboard 112

Board Game 112

Book Trailer 112

Brainstorming 112

Carousel Cruising 113

Character Grid 113

Choral Reading 113

Circle Around 113

Cloze Call 114

Collage Creations 114

Commercial 114

Concept Map 114

Concentration 114

Comic Strips 114

Comic Strip Compare/Contrast 115

Consultation Lineup 115

Create a Comic Strip 115

Dear Author 116

Declare It With Dots 116

Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA) 116

Dramatic Monologue 117

Every Pupil Response (EPR) 117

Fact or False? 117

Fist of Five 117

Flash Facts 117

Foggiest Point 117

Foldables 117

Gallery Walk 118

Generating Interactions Between Schemata and Text (GIST) 118

Graffiti Board 119

Guess Who? 119

Headlines 119

Human Bingo 119

Idea Wave 119

Jumbled Scrambled Summary 120

Last (First) Word Acrostic 120

Learned-Affirmed-Challenged (LAC) 120

Learning Lineup 120

List, Group, Label 121

Literacy Cafe: Reading Response Menu 121

Most Important Word 121

Most Valuable Point (MVP) 122

Movie Review 122

Mystery Word 122

One-Minute Paper 123

Open Mind Diagram 123

Pair, Compare, and Share 124

Pantomime Parts 124

Picture This! 124

Popcorn Reading 124

Post-a-Problem 124

Postcard Pen Pals 125

PQRST Study Strategy 125

Priming the Pump 125

PS 126

Question-Answer Relationship (OAR) 126

Question Fans 126

Reading Response Charts 127

Roving Reporter 127

See-Think-Wonder 127

Sentence Frames 127

Shades of Meaning 128

Shoe Partners 128

Snowball Summary 128

Take Five 129

Talking Trios 129

Timeline 129

Traffic Lights 129

Triangle-Square-Circle 130

Up and About 130

Visualization 130

Vote With Your Feet 131

Voting 131

Word Cone 131

Word Tree 132

Wows and Wonders 132

Writing Round-Up Relay 132

References and Resources 133

Index 143

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