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Snapshots : Literacy Minilessons Up Close
Linda Hoyt covers oral, guided, and independent reading, as well as writing, providing more than 170 minilessons for understanding individual words and whole texts, fiction, and nonfiction. For each...
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Spelling Strategies and Patterns
Research shows that for long-term retention and real-world application spelling instruction needs to be more than the memorization of word lists. Offering an alternative to the traditional word-list...
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Spotlight on Comprehension: Building a Literacy of Thoughtfulness
This text presents a tapestry of short, highly practical essays loaded with ready to use strategies for teaching reading comprehension and assessing understanding. Hoyt and an all-star ensemble of...
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Strange Bedfellows: Surprising Text Pairs and Lessons for Reading and Writing Across Genres
What do Arnold Schwarzenegger and Barack Obama have in common? When it comes to helping students become savvy about genre, rhetoric, and language: everything. In Strange Bedfellows Carol Rawlings...
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Strategic Reading: Guiding Students to Lifelong Literacy, 6-12
Jeffrey Wilhelm and his coauthors know that before reading can be learned, it must be taught. As students move on to more challenging texts in middle and high school, their reading skills don't grow...
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Talk About Understanding: Rethinking Classroom Talk to Enhance Comprehension
Reading education pioneer Ellin Oliver Keene demystifies comprehension instruction by describing what it can look like when readers comprehend deeply and what it can look like when teachers aim for...
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Teacher's Guide to Standardized Reading Tests : Knowledge Is Power
In recent years, the increasingly high stakes attached to norm-referenced reading tests have made it harder to hold onto what we believe about language arts education. Now, Lucy Calkins, Kate...
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Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency: Thinking, Talking and Writing about Reading (with DVD)
This is the next new breakthrough from Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell. Offering a complete picture of how to skillfully teach meaning making and fluency within any instructional context, this...
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Teaching Struggling Readers: How to Use Brain-Based Research to Maximize Learning
Marie Clay, in her foreword, says that this important book will help raise the profile for what is needed to get all children off to a good start in education. And a good place to start is with Carol...
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Text Savvy: Using a Shared Reading Framework to Build Comprehension
If only upper-elementary teachers had a tool like shared reading that supports the comprehension work their students do in reading workshop and read-aloud—one that helps children transition from...
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Texts and Lessons for Content-Area Reading
"To have any hope of kids investing fully in the subject matter, we have to start by evoking their curiosity and get them interested in the topic. Engaging the students can’t wait. If we wait for...
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The Art of Slow Reading: Six Time-Honored Practices for Engagement
This important book rests on a simple but powerful belief—that good readers practice the art of paying attention. Building on memoir, research, and many examples of classroom practice, Thomas...