Articles related to "Reading"



Basics of Reader's Workshop
Implementing a Reading Workshop requires certain basic components which consist of: Modeling Mini-lessons, Independent Reading, and then Sharing and Reflection.
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Independent Reading
Strategies for students to choose a book of interest and is at their reading level.
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Add a Little Reading to Your Fun
This article gives teachers practical techniques to encourage their students to read more.
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Independent Reading Verses S.S.R.
Independent Reading is quite different than Sustained Silent Reading or D.E.A.R in the components of time, book selection, and the student and teacher's roles.
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Guided Reading Activities
Guided reading is a fun, interactive tool for children learning to read more complex texts
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Current Research-Based Reading Documents
For many classroom teachers, access to current research-based practices has proven difficult since many have limited funds available to subscribe to reading research journals and limited time or resources available to locate the most current research documents about effective reading practices. So, I've decided to dedicate the next three months to a series about Reading Research and Best Practices so that readers may use this summer to brush up on these topics and be best prepared to deal with them when students return to their classrooms in the fall. It is my hope that this series will provide easy access to many current sources of scientifically-based reading research, as well as a bit about the history and current politics associated with reading instruction and the ongoing Reading Wars. This month, I'll highlight important research-based reading documents published in the past four years and point you in directions to learn more about specific reading reports.
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Guided Reading Resources
A number of states have moved toward including guided reading in their overall picture of quality reading instruction and teachers are always searching for resources that summarize the components of these important reading lessons. As summer gets under way and you get a few minutes to take a breather from the hectic life in a classroom, I hope you enjoy this month's article, which features many excellent web sites created to help teachers effectively use guided reading strategies.
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Get Your Disabled Child to Read
Winter is a great time to encourage your disabled child to read. These tips will help him become a confident reader.
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Improving Reading Skills
Tips and strategies for helping your students improve their reading comprehension skills.
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Motivation and Rewards for Reading
Here are some ideas for motivating and rewarding your children for reading at home.
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Reading Visualization Strategy
A middle school lesson plan that expands on the during- and post-reading strategy of visualization, helping students understand its impact on their reading process.
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Friends Make Bad Editors
The first person a writer often shows his or her work to is a friend or family member. Before you do that, read on to find out why it's a bad idea.
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Reading to Children
Improve your reading skills as you entertain younger children by reading aloud to them. Here are some things to remember to help you gain and keep your audience's ear.
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Homework for Single Parents
Quick, fun things for busy parents to do at home to help teach and reinforce the reading skills of children. Small things can make a big difference!
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Boys and Reading
Ideas and suggestions to get boys reading outside the classroom.
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Criteria for Teaching Reading
Here is a summary of criteria that you should keep in mind when planning reading lessons for both elementary and middle school level reading program.
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Independent Reading Strategies
Independent reading is a time for students to make their own book choices, apply reading strategies, have large blocks of time to read and set independent reading goals.
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Language Experience Approach
How to use the Language Experience Approach reading strategy, or LEA, with beginning readers to increase elementary students' ability to decode and comprehend text.
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Literature Circles
Use Literature Circles to enhance Language Arts instruction and to improve student reading skills.
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Reading Despite Disability
Reading is important. With few exceptions (such as severe mental or physical impairment) reading skills are necessary for success as an adult.
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Reading First Impact Study
The recently publish Reading First Impact Study has attracted a lot of attention and been used to show that Reading First is ineffective. What Does the report really say?
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Reading to Kids
Parents model to their children how to select a book to read for enjoyment.
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The Reading First Study - Problems
It may not matter what conclusions are in the recently publish Reading First Impact Study. A number of flaws have been pointed out in the study's design.
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Playing Card Symbolism: Hearts
Using a popular system for reading ordinary playing cards, the suit of Hearts indicates matters of the heart and the presence of true love in intuitive readings.
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An ESL Bank for Reading
An esl teacher needs an esl 'bank' of reading tips, ideas to teach a child to read.
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Book Adventure for the Summer
Shares the online reading program Book Adventure which was implemented in effort to reduce illiteracy.
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Get Your Children Reading
From reading aloud to your infant to encouraging your high-schoolers to read the classics, there's much you can do to get your children reading.
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New Websites for the New Year
A review of some additional Internet resources related to reading instruction that I've located since I first began writing this column about five months ago. These annotated links will soon be added to my list of recommended websites.
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Reading Groups for Kids
How reading groups can benefit your child.
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The Magical Gift of Reading Aloud
I thought I'd follow up last month's article about the importance of reading aloud to children of all ages with a few tips that summarize some basic reading aloud "techniques". I've broken the suggestions down by age level and have directed it towards parents and caregivers particularly, so that we may all play a role from the very beginning of life with our children in handing down the magical gift of reading for enjoyment.
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What Does What I Read Illustrate About Me?
What does what I read illustrate about me? For school, I had to give a presentation about what my reading illustrated about me. While this struck me at first as a dull task, it gave me reason for self-assessment.
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What's Hot in Reading for 1999: Part III
In this third phase of What's Hot in Reading for 1999, I've managed to locate many Internet resources that can help you to better differentiate phonemic awareness from traditional phonics instruction. I've also located a number of teaching activities that can be used with early readers to foster what many describe as one of the best predictors of later success in reading.
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Daily Living Skills – Reading
As I review books that are struggling reader-friendly the next few weeks, I also want to look at other ways that reading skills can be promoted.
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Declining US Reading Rates
A recent NEA report shows Americans are reading less with frightening consequences
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Exploring Second Language Reading
Why do some English language learners hate to read? How can teachers keep their ESL students motivated? Try a bottom-up instead of a top-down approach.
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Holiday Reading Activities
Here are some tips and strategies for classroom tested holiday reading activities and ideas for working with class readers and individual readers.
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Reading Groups for Kids
This article is for parents who want to encourage summer reading by organizing and hosting home reading groups for children.
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Teaching Pre-Reading Strategies
Fluent learners use a variety of reading strategies. Here is a reading lesson plan showing the difference between pre-reading strategies and pre-reading activities.
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Teaching Reading Strategies
Some teaching tips on how to teach reading strategies in a heterogeneous elementary school classroom.
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Literature Based Hotspots on the Internet Part 2
This article is the second in a series of articles designed to provide you with an annotated outline of online ancillary materials created by the publishers of many popular reading series.&nbsp; As was the case with all of the web sites from last month, all four of the sites featured below provide free resources that can greatly enrich your reading curriculum, whether or not you actually use that particular series in your classroom.&nbsp; This month, we'll take a closer look at the <a href="http://www.mmhschool.com/teach/reading/read1.html">McGraw-Hill's</a> Reading and Language Arts resources, some of <a href="http://www.scholastic.com">Scholastic's</a> literature-based resources, Microsoft Network's <a href="http://encarta.msn.com/schoolhouse/default.asp?page=1207">Encarta Lesson Collection</a> for Language Arts, and finally, the reading section of <a href="http://www.proteacher.com/070000.shtml">ProTeacher.com</a>.
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Reader Response Activities That Foster Critical Reading Skills
As the overwhelming amount and types of texts available to young readers increases daily, it is vital that students learn to read critically.&nbsp; Advertisements, web sites, persuasive articles and children's trade books contain messages and themes that require readers to suspend judgement, consider another point of view, and think carefully about their meaning.&nbsp; Standardized reading assessments in many states include questions and tasks that require these types of interactions with text; interactions that require readers to give a "personal response", "develop an interpretation" or take a "critical stance".&nbsp; Yet, how does a teacher move young readers to this demanding level of thought and understanding?&nbsp; What standards are being developed by curriculum designers to help teachers integrate critical reading skills into their curriculum at all grade levels?&nbsp; What is the meaning of such terms as "critical stance" and "reading for literary experience"; phrases that are quickly finding their way into classrooms.&nbsp; How does it all fit together?&nbsp; This month's article will review a number of online sources available to assist teachers in their efforts to design meaningful reading response activities for their students that will help improve their formal test scores in reading while fostering lifelong reading comprehension strategies.
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Teaching Sentence Sense
Do you have students who can read words on cards, but cannot transfer that skill to reading the same words in sentences? Here are some creative activities to help.
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Improving ESL Reading Skills
This article focuses on prior knowledge which is activated even before learners start reading the text, as part of Pre-Reading Activities.
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DEAR: Finding Time to Read
Do you DEAR in your classroom? Drop everything and read is a great way to keep kids reading...
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How to Find Joy in Reading
Selecting books that will move us from a pleasurable reading experience to one of lasting joy.
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How to Write Anticipation Guides: Using Pre-Reading Activities to Help Students Read More Actively
Activating prior knowledge and making predictions about what you will read can greatly enhance reading comprehension. In her new book <i>Teaching Reading in the Middle School</i>, language arts specialist Laura Robb writes "For teachers, one of the most important tasks is to provide rich and frequent opportunities for students to access prior knowledge and enlarge that knowledge. Taking the time to engage students in strategy lessons that prepare them to read a text can develop a strong base of prior knowledge that deepens students' comprehension of books and other texts, which in turn helps them to construct new understandings." Throughout her book, Robb outlines many pre-reading strategy lessons like "predict and support", "brainstorm and categorize" knowledge about concepts into an organized framework, and "form a hypothesis and prove it". I'd like to investigate another, perhaps lesser known pre-reading activity known as the anticipation guide.
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Stages of Reading: Pre-reading Skills
Early life has great impact on reading skills.
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Stages of Reading: Reading Apprenticeship
The actual <i>reading</i> stage in your child's reading apprenticeship.
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The Value of Reading Part 2,The Value of Reading Part 2
A second part to the article on gifted and talented teens and reading. This list suggests more books and other ways to read if you are just to busy to find a novel.,A second part to the article on gifted and talented teens and reading. This list suggests more books and other ways to read if you are just to busy to find a novel.
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Tips on Keeping a Reading Journal
If you want to remember the memorable - and not so memorable - books you've read, a reading journal may be for you.
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