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This book is an good resource for any teacher who wants to include
explicit phonemic awareness instruction in an early reading program.
One volume provides three separate sets of phonemic
awareness lessons, complete with scripted directions and reproducible
learning materials and assessment tools.

A
comprehensive guide to teaching reading. Includes strategies for vocabulary
development, fluency, and comprehension of informational and literary texts.

Offers practical strategies and approaches to differentiated instruction in the classroom.  Actual stories of success serve to motivate and refine understanding of differentiating in the classroom.

This book includes hundreds of
multi-level fast-paced lessons that will encourage children to explore words,
letter-sound relationships, and letter patterns.

Everything you wanted to know about phonics but were afraid to ask! This practical handbook, written by an early reading specialist, will show you how to build engaging, effective phonics practice into your reading-writing program. Lots of ready-to-use lessons, word lists, games and learning center ideas.

In this easy-to-read and research-based text, Regie Routman provides clarity, support, specific demonstrations, and confidence to teachers so they can teach reading well.

A practical handbook that details strategies to use before, during and after reading to enhance comprehension.

Includes concise background, ready-made lessons for teaching phonics, syllabification and root words, extensive word lists, activities, and more.

In The Art of Teaching Reading, nationally acclaimed educator Lucy Calkins offers a glimpse into the methods, insights and day-to-day classroom practices which have helped hundreds of teachers do more in the teaching of reading than most dreamt possible. This is the story of teachers whose children learn to read with eagerness and to talk and write in stunning ways about their reading. Full of inspirational classroom stories, The Art of Teaching Reading is even more powerful when one considers that the methods Calkins describes are transforming teaching practices across the largest school district in the world.

This book is a well-balanced mix of the theory and practice of building fluent
readers in elementary and middle schools.

This is a guide to teaching good reading and spelling skills. Offers a wide range of creative strategies for helping students learn and a refresher course on language skills.

Words, Words, Words describes the research that changed the way many teachers teach vocabulary. It offers educators practical,
research-based solutions for helping students fall into new language,
learn new words, and begin to use those words in their speaking and
writing lives.

Teachers looking for new methods to inspire readers will find a wealth of ideas in Allen's book. Although the topics she introduces, such as read-alouds, shared reading, and guided reading, are not new concepts, she refuses to take the familiar for granted. The author analyzes these practices and highlights the obstacles that can cause frustration and disappointment for both students and teachers.