Reading Skills category: 338 books
Critical Reading Across the Curriculum
Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Powerful strategies, tools, and techniques for educators teaching students critical reading skills in the humanities.
Every educator understands the importance of teaching students how to read critically. Even the best teachers, however, find it challenging to translate their own learned critical...
by Ron Fry
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Proven strategies for better reading skills—from comprehension, focus, and retention to overcoming challenges such as ADD.
Whether it’s for education or enjoyment, reading can be challenging. Understanding and remembering what you’ve read, and keeping focus and concentration when you...
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 Sam Duncan
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Adult literacy provision has become more functional and assessment driven over the last decade, largely due to funding requirements and the introduction of the national test. One result of this is that the clear benefits of reading for pleasure in adult skills development have become less apparent....
by The INSTANT-Series
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
How to Read Faster Instantly!How fast can you read? Not very fast, right? Or at least not as fast as you would like...otherwise you wouldn't be reading this?Now how about if you can increase your reading speed by 5, or even 10, times faster than you read now...guarantee?What...
by Brenda Rollins
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
A child’s ability to read and comprehend the written word is his touchstone to success in school and in life. Designed to teach the reading skills that are basic to reading fluency, our resource emphasizes the primary building blocks of reading acquisition. Start off by identifying the main idea...
Explaining Reading, Third Edition
A Resource for Explicit Teaching of the Common Core Standards
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
This trusted teacher resource and widely adopted text presents effective ways to demystify essential reading skills and strategies for K-8 students who are struggling. It has been fully revised to focus on the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English language arts. Following a concise introduction...
by Cheryl Hill
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Give Your Child the Gift of Reading is a tool kit, "How-To", book for teaching English reading that is explained in exact details in a simplistic manner so that homeschoolers, parents, grandparents, teachers, librarians, reading specialists, English as Second Language/Bilingual Teacher Specialists,...
SuperReading for Success
The Groundbreaking, Brain-Based Program to Improve Your Speed, Enhance Your Memo ry, and Increase Your Success
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Learn to go beyond your average speed reading skills—with SuperReading™
A practical guide to boosting speed, comprehension, and powers of recall!
Packed with tools and techniques from the author's years of experience, this book can help readers overcome poor reading habits and learn...
Fluency in Reading
Synchronization of Processes
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
This is the first book to examine in-depth the crucial role of the speed of information processing in the brain in determining reading fluency in both normal and dyslexic readers.
Part I explains fluency in reading from both traditional and modern perspectives. Fluency has historically been...
Teaching Skills for Complex Text
Deepening Close Reading in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Tired of hearing about “complex text”? Bothered by the pushy messages about “challenge”? This book is for you! Unlike the many other materials on text complexity, this one focuses on specific comprehension skills that students need in order to really engage with text. This...
by Sheri Berkeley, Ph.D., Ana Taboada Barber
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
With 8 million students in Grades 4–12 struggling to read on grade level, effective comprehension instruction is a top priority for middle and high school teachers. This teacher-friendly supplemental textbook fully prepares current and future educators to help all students "read to learn."...
Reading Smart, 2nd Edition
Simple Strategies for Improved Reading
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
SIMPLE STRATEGIES CAN MAKE YOU A BETTER READER.
Being “good at reading” isn’t just about speed—it’s about being able to read through info, quickly sort out what’s important, and draw useful connections. That’s why we at The Princeton Review created Reading Smart, a book designed...
by Peter J. Fisher, Ann Bates, Debra J. Gurvitz
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This authoritative, easy-to-use guide will help educators plan and implement intervention lessons for struggling readers that align with the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards. All three authors run successful summer reading programs and supervise tutors who are becoming reading specialists....