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One Child at a Timeby Pat Johnson
Stenhouse Publishers 2006; US$ 14.40Every elementary teacher deals with students who struggle as readers on a daily basis. In One Child at a Time, experienced literacy specialist and consultant Pat Johnson provides a framework she has used with hundreds of students in scores of classrooms to help teachers understand and assist individual children. The four-step process outlined in the book enables teachers to focus carefully on specific behaviors and needs, analyze them with theoretical and practical lenses, design targeted instruction, and then assess and refine the teaching in conferences with the child. Pat shows how to use this framework successfully with a range of learners, including young children, English language learners, and students in the upper elementary grades... more...
I Read It, but I Don't Get Itby Cris Tovani
Stenhouse Publishers 2000; US$ 15.60I Read It, but I Don't Get It is a practical, engaging account of how teachers can help adolescents develop new reading comprehension skills. Cris Tovani is an accomplished teacher and staff developer who writes with verve and humor about the challenges of working with students at all levels of achievement?from those who have mastered the art of "fake reading" to college-bound juniors and seniors who struggle with the different demands of content-area textbooks and novels. Enter Cris' classroom, a place where students are continually learning new strategies for tackling difficult text. You will be taken step-by-step through practical, theory-based reading instruction that can be adapted for use in any subject area. The book features:anecdotes... more...
Do I Really Have to Teach Reading?by Cris Tovani
Stenhouse Publishers 2004; US$ 16.00?Do I really have to teach reading?? This is the question many teachers of adolescents are asking, wondering how they can possibly add a new element to an already overloaded curriculum. And most are finding that the answer is ?yes.? If they want their students to learn complex new concepts in different disciplines, they often have to help their students become better readers. Building on the experiences gained in her own language arts classroom as well as those of colleagues in different disciplines, Cris Tovani, author of I Read It, but I Don't Get It , takes on the challenge of helping students apply reading comprehension strategies in any subject. In Do I Really Have to Teach Reading? , Cris shows how teachers can expand on their content... more...
Assessing Reading 2by Rhonda Jenkins; Martin Coles
RoutledgeFalmer 1998; US$ 57.50This book focuses directly on the classroom, on the challenges individual teachers face in classroom-based assessment, and how these challenges have been and are being met in a range of international contexts. more...
Assessing Reading 1by Colin Harrison; Terry Salinger
RoutledgeFalmer 1998; US$ 57.50This book focuses on theoretical and methodological issues, though with a clear series of links to practices in assessment, especially state and national approaches to classroom based assessment in the USA, UK and Australia. more...
Reading for Real Handbookby Colin Harrison; Martin Coles
RoutledgeFalmer 2001; US$ 55.95This best-selling literacy title has been updated to take into account the National Literacy Strategy and the Introduction of the Literacy Hour. more...
Helping Children with Reading and Spellingby Rea Reason; Rene Boote
RoutledgeFalmer 1994; US$ 54.95Builds on the authors highly successful manual Learning Difficulties in Reading and Writing and contains practical suggestions to help children who struggle with learning to read and spell. more...
Dyslexia at Collegeby T. R. Miles; Dorothy Gilroy
Routledge 1995; US$ 52.95The authors offer useful and practical advice for dysexic students and their teachers on how to make the most of the college experience. Fully revised to take into account advances in dyslexia and changes in the further and higher education. more...
Learning From Children Who Read at an Early Ageby Rhona Stainthorp; Diana Hughes
RoutledgeFalmer 1999; US$ 54.95The book is the result of a three-year research project in which the authors studied a group of children who learnt to read without being taught. more...
The Reading for Real Handbook, Second Editionby Colin Harrison; Martin Coles
RoutledgeFalmer 2002; US$ 26.95The Reading for Real Handbook was very well received by both teachers and literacy specialists when it was published in 1992. Since its first publication there have been significant changes in the field of 'reading', not least of which has been governmental demands for higher standards in reading and the resultant National Literacy Strategy (NLS). more...