Reading category: 4864 books
by Katherine A. Dougherty Stahl, EdD, Michael C. McKenna
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
From leading experts, this indispensable resource presents a practical model for conducting reading assessments for screening, diagnosis, and progress monitoring in each of the three tiers of response to intervention (RTI). K-8 teachers and school personnel are guided to use norm-referenced, informal,...
by James T.Rose
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to become a rapid, efficient reader in less than 24 hours.It presents indispensable techniques that will sharpen your comprehension, build your self-assurance and skill in dominating a page of print, and permanently increase your reading efficiency...
The Gutenberg Elegies
The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2006
"[A] THOUGHTFUL AND HEARTFELT BOOK...A literary cri de coeur--a lament for literature and everything implicit in it."
--The Washington Post
In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary culture? Renowned critic Sven Birkerts believes the answer...
The Word
Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Critically acclaimed Black writers reveal how books have shaped their personal lives—in often unexpected ways.
In these thirteen strikingly candid interviews, bestselling authors, winners of the Pulitzer Prize, and writers picked by Oprah’s Book Club discuss how the acts of reading and writing...
Reading Together
Everything You Need to Know to Raise a Child Who Loves to Read
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
A dynamic guide to more than 100 books that will get kids talking and reading more.
How do children become good readers? In Reading Together, educational consultant Diane W. Frankenstein shares the secret: guiding children to find an appropriate book and talking with them about the story helps...
Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century
The Literary Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how increasingly...
Reading Beyond the Book
The Social Practices of Contemporary Literary Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Literary culture has become a form of popular culture over the last fifteen years thanks to the success of televised book clubs, film adaptations, big-box book stores, online bookselling, and face-to-face and online book groups. This volume offers the first critical analysis of mass reading events...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Books
The History and Future of Reading
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2019
Reports of the death of reading are greatly exaggerated
Do you worry that you've lost patience for anything longer than a tweet? If so, you're not alone. Digital-age pundits warn that as our appetite for books dwindles, so too do the virtues in which printed, bound objects once trained us:...
ACT English, Reading & Writing Prep
Includes 500+ Practice Questions
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Kaplan's ACT English, Reading & Writing Prep provides focused practice and expert tips to help you sharpen your skills so you can face the test with confidence. Kaplan is the Official Partner for Live Online Prep for the ACT. For more information visit kaptest.com/onlinepreplive.
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Developing Early Comprehension
Laying the Foundation for Reading Success
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
How does early comprehension develop in young children, and how can we better prepare preschoolers to become successful readers? This important volume compiles today's best research on the often-overlooked topic of prereader comprehension: what we know about it now, and what we need to know to build...
by J.D. Rockefeller
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Speed reading can be described as any of several methods used to improve your ability to read faster. Both psychologists and educational experts working on visual acuity concluded that, with a certain amount of training, an average individual could easily identify minute images displayed quickly on...
by Melinda Thompson, Melissa Ferrell, Cecilia Minden
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Reading is a neurologically complex skill. So, it isn’t surprising that many children find learning to read difficult. Make learning to read more fun with award-winning Budding Reader eBooks, arguably the easiest learn-to-read book series on the market. These research-based eBooks were developed...
by Pamela Paul, Maria Russo
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
An indispensable guide to welcoming children—from babies to teens—to a lifelong love of reading, written by Pamela Paul and Maria Russo, editors of The New York Times Book Review.
Do you remember your first visit to where the wild things are? How about curling up for hours on end to discover...
Lenses on Reading, Third Edition
An Introduction to Theories and Models
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Widely adopted as an ideal introduction to the major models of reading, this text guides students to understand and facilitate children's literacy development. Coverage encompasses the full range of theories that have informed reading instruction and research, from classical thinking to cutting-edge...