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To Understand: New Horizons in Reading Comprehension
The renaissance in comprehension instruction launched by Mosaic of Thought has led to changes in hundreds of thousands of classrooms, where teachers now model reading strategies, and students probe meaning more deeply. But no book in the field has...
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Tough Talk, Tough Texts
Strategic reading, critical examination, and civil discourse aren’t just for college preparedness—they are life skills. In Tough Talk, Tough Texts Cindy O’Donnell-Allen shares small-group instruction whose goal is to give kids the...
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Trusting Readers: Powerful Practices for Independent Reading
Trusting Readers is an essential and accessible guide that provides teachers with the inspiration, information, and tools needed to grow enthusiastic independent readers. Jen and Hannah put the independence back into independent reading—and...
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Understanding Texts & Readers: Responsive Comprehension Instruction with Leveled Texts
Understanding Texts & Readers makes comprehension make sense. In it, Jennifer Serravallo narrows the distance between assessment and instruction. She maps the four fiction and four nonfiction comprehension goals she presented in The Reading...
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Up the Ladder Reading and Writing
How do you support upper-grade and middle school readers if they are new to the norms and culture of reading workshop, particularly if they may also have missed some foundational instruction in reading fiction and nonfiction? How do you do this in a way...
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What Readers Really Do
Drawing on their own lives as readers and writers and years of experience working in classrooms as coaches, staff developers, and consultants, Dorothy Barnhouse and Vicki Vinton offer practical tips for meeting today’s rigorous standards while...
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What the Science of Reading Says
Gain a deeper understanding of how students learn to read! This series of books explore current research on the science of reading and discusses what it means for classrooms today. These resources provide everything teachers need to develop...
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When Kids Can't Read-What Teachers Can Do, 2nd Edition
Dear Teachers, This new edition of When Kids Can’t Read—What Teachers Can Do, like the original edition, is based on my bedrock belief that reading, though not an innate ability for anyone, is a critical skill for all. Reading changes...
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When Readers Struggle: Teaching that Works
When Readers Struggle: Teaching That Works is a comprehensive resource on struggling readers. It’s filled with specific teaching ideas for helping children in kindergarten through Grade 3 who are having difficulty in reading and writing. We...
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When Reading Begins: The Teacher's Role in Decoding, Comprehension and Fluency
There’s no better informed, keener observer of the magical entry into reading than one who has helped more than 600 children become readers–someone who also devoted her doctoral research to reviewing dozens of videotapes of teachers working...