Reading Better, Reading Smarter.

Reading Better, Reading Smarter addresses all areas of planning and implementing Scaffolded Reading Experiences and prepares teachers to create their own SREs to scaffold their students' reading. An SRE is a flexible instructional framework composed of pre-, during-, and postreading activities tailored to a specific instructional situation.

Deborah Appleman and Michael Graves combine the theory and research behind the Scaffolded Reading Experience (SRE) to create this very practical guide showing preservice and inservice teachers how to use this flexible approach to ensuring that each and every student can read, learn from, and enjoy each and every text he or she reads.

By considering the text, their students, and the purpose of the lesson, teachers will be able create appropriate scaffolding for each reading experience their students face. This widely applicable text includes:

• Twenty two types of pre-, during-, and postreading activities designed to lead students to success
• Examples of each activity along with information on how to create each type of activity
• Detailed classroom lesson plans and explanations of what an SRE is and what it is supposed to do as well as what it is not supposed to do
• Guidance for evaluating and assessing the difficulty of text and formal and informal ways for evaluating student performance.