Best Practices for Teaching Reading: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do

by Randi Stone

Following the successful format of the companion volumes for teaching writing, mathematics, science, and social studies, Best Practices for Teaching Reading presents firsthand accounts of outstanding instructional strategies and lessons for teaching reading to students in both elementary and secondary school. Randi Stone brings readers into the classrooms of more than twenty-five award-winning teachers who share their unique and creative strategies for reaching elementary and secondary learners with diverse learning styles and abilities. From getting fourth-grade students excited to study Shakespeare to creating “wonder journals” to incorporating reading in the math classroom, these teachers have tried it all!With forty classroom-tested strategies, Best Practices for Teaching Reading provides practical guidance for building students’ decoding and vocabulary skills while developing their comprehension and motivation for reading. This collection of best practices presents useful tips in getting students · Get excited about reading· Make connections between different texts· Become effective writers as well as readers· Use literacy skills across the curriculumVeteran and new teachers alike will find an abundance of fresh ideas to teach reading while helping students build confidence, increase academic achievement, and develop critical thinking skills.

Genres: Teaching, Nonfiction

178 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 1, 2008

Reviews

[Michelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

I literally just purchased this book at a Scholastic warehouse sale today, picked it up to look at it in more detail when I got home, and then couldn't put it down. It is filled with practical strategy after practical strategy for those entrusted with teaching students reading skills, from the first grade to the twelfth. I plan to implement some of the wisdom and procedures and strategies from this book as soon as the new school year begins in the fall, and I will be referring to this volume for years to come.

[Shannon · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is a compilation of best practices as told by each person so there are many different voices. Not really what I expected though the title said it all.