Peggy Kaye's Games for Reading helps children read by doing just what kids like best: playing games.
This book is the richest, most comprehensive guided reading resource available today and the first systematic offering of instructional support for guided reading adherents.
Help America Read contains everything you would want a literacy volunteer to know about tutoring children.
Learning to read is a big step for anyone. Betty Miles demystifies the process by revealing the secrets behind one of life’s most important and enjoyable skills. Hey! I’m Reading!
Jim Burke invited readers of the San Francisco Chronicle to "write to my high school students about your experiences with books...." The best of the more than one thousand pages of letters are collected in this funny, poignant, and inspiring book.
An important goal in every first-grade classroom is to get children reading--but how? This book examines current research on first-grade literacy instruction, and shows how it translates into what good teachers really do in the classroom.
This monumental book traces the complex issues involved with the intergenerational transmission of competence and unveils some astonishing predictors found in the simple interactions between parents and their 1- and 2-year-old children.
How do students become thoughtful, independent readers who comprehend text at a deep level?
Parents and teachers of learning disabled children have tumed to Sally Smith's No Easy Answers for information, advice, and comfort for more than fifteen years.
For educators, parents, and others, Spear-Swerling and Sternberg identify the dangers of labeling children as reading or learning disabled, and present a new theoretical model of reading disability which identifies four ways in which disabled readers depa