Reading Without Limits: Teaching Strategies to Build Independent Reading for Life

by Maddie Witter, Maddie Witter

Imagine a classroom where all students are engaged in highly rigorous and fun learning every single day. That classroom can be yours starting tomorrow.

You don’t have to be a reading specialist to pick up this book. Anyone who wants to dramatically improve reading achievement will find helpful suggestions. You might be a third grade teacher whose students have mastered decoding, and you are ready to build their comprehension. Or you might be a high school science teacher whose students aren’t yet reading on level with deep critical thinking. This book is for you. It doesn’t matter whether you are a public, charter, private, or alternative education teacher: the Reading Without Limits program works in each one. Along with hundreds of ready-to-use teaching strategies, Reading Without Limits comes with a supplemental website where teachers can download even more resources for free! Reading Without Limits is the first book offered in the KIPP Educator Series. KIPP, or the Knowledge is Power Program, began in 1994. As of Fall 2012, there are 125 KIPP schools in 20 states and the District of Columbia serving nearly 40,000 students climbing the mountain to and through college.

Genres: Education, Teaching, Professional Development, Nonfiction

416 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2013

Reviews

[Megan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good read to gather ideas to incorporate into your reading program. Similar to Teach Like a Champion in that you can pull out some new ideas but nothing is eye opening or new.

[Monica971 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fantastic professional development book about how to improve kids’ commitment to becoming better readers and developing life long readers. Even as an experienced teacher, I was able to find a lot that I can use in this book, so much so that my copy looked like a porcupine when I was finished with all of my post it notes.

[Sara · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a must-read for anyone who teaches reading or helps develop reading programs in schools. It is full of practical, easy to implement tips that not only help kids love reading, but help them become better thinkers about reading. I'll keep this book close at hand as I develop my curriculum for the coming year.

[Aruna Kumar Gadepalli · Rating 4 out of 5]

Easy and good read. This book gives various strategies as to build the lifelong readers. Various strategies that are tried and tested are given. Various resources including online in the website with the name of the book itself author provides resources unit wise. Useful to the teachers and educators.

[Leandro Melendez · Rating 4 out of 5]

A pesar de ser un libro orientado a maestros y padres que quieren inculcar la lectura en los niños, da muy buenas técnicas e ideas, así como una lista de lecturas por grado de dificultad para empezar o inducir a un niño a leer.
fuera de eso, no lo recomiendo mucho al público en general.
Al final se vuelve monótono pero repito, son tips muy buenos para inducción!

[Jean · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book! Very inspiring on how I want my reading time to look in my classroom. I played with some ideas at the end of this school year and loved it! Love the iThink journal idea. I'm going to start playing with the idea of "playlists" to get ready for the next year.

[Ben Waymouth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of practical ways to increase reading in K-12 students. PCSC staff read this book for summer license renewal PGP's.

[Amy]

I am not going to finish this book as much of it is things I have read before. I will probably peruse it over once more before I return it to the library.

[Harini Raghavan · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very practical book that provides strategies to help children inculcate the reading habit

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[Brittany · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was a lifeline for me! Love it!