Creating Strategic Readers: Techniques for Developing Competency in Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension

by Valerie Ellery

Author Valerie Ellery has updated her bestselling book, Creating Strategic Readers, to help you meet the challenges of educating your 21st-century learners. Here she describes a comprehensive literacy classroom, detailing appropriate curriculum, assessment, and instruction. She then focuses on the five essential reading components - phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. The book includes numerous exciting and engaging techniques geared to students' reading levels and incorporating students' multiple intelligences. This updated, revised, and expanded second edition Over 140 classroom-tested techniques
35 new techniques
An expanded focus on educating the whole child
A motivation/engagement section for many techniques
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Genres: Teaching

246 pages, Paperback

First published January 3, 2005

Reviews

[Rikki · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lots of good ideas...better for lower elementary grades for most of the lessons

[Jennifer Symonds · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is much like many of the other "how to teach reading" books that I have read as of late. It supports the idea of reading is the process of making meaning, not about the individual words on the page. It comes with a CD of templates you can use to go with the many activities provided in the book. I will probably use a few of the activities to further support Reading Power (Adrienne Gear) in my classroom.

[Krista Tillman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Has some great lesson ideas - more of a book to flip through to find some fun strategies to use for reading - not one I'm ready to truly sit down and "read." Will come back to it again when looking for ideas...

[Erica Sonzogni · Rating 4 out of 5]

Even though much of this was a review from undergrad and graduate school, there were a lot of resources for multiple levels and some new ideas that I had never heard of. I'm excited to try them with my class and tutees.

[Liz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Each strategy has 4 or more activities that demonstrate the strategy as well as a CD of reproducibles. Probably one of the better textbooks I've had to buy. Now if the class were only over and all my practicum hours were completed!