Reading instruction: Recent e-books
This guide is for those interested in the issues surrounding reading instruction, both research and practice.
Recent e-books
Personalized reading: digital strategies and tools to support all learners by Michele Haiken
Publication Date: 2024Unlock the power of personalized reading with practical strategies and easy-to-use ideas to engage students in the digital age. In the first edition of this book, the authors identified ways for working with four different types of readers--struggling readers, reluctant readers, English learners, and advanced readers--using technology to accommodate their various reading journeys and learning styles. The second edition identifies a fifth type of reader--the emerging reader--and ways of personalizing instruction to their needs.Teaching reading comprehension to students with learning difficulties by Sharon Vaughn; Alison Boardman; Janette K. Klingner
Publication Date: 2024Now in a revised and expanded third edition, this important resource helps teachers understand how good readers comprehend text and how best to support students who are struggling. It presents effective instructional methods for learners at all grade levels, including those with reading disabilities.The phonics playbook: how to differentiate instruction so students succeed by Alison Ryan
Publication Date: 2024The Phonics Playbook is the one phonics-focused resource that offers a solution for phonics instruction in real-world K-3 classrooms. Understanding phonics instruction in theory is one thing, but actually integrating it into daily classroom life--in a way that meets the needs of diverse students--is another. This book offers simplified instruction and practical guidance for differentiating instruction using three models: whole group instruction with elements of differentiation, phonics-focused small group instruction, and small group reading instruction that also incorporates phonics.Close reading in elementary school: bringing readers and texts together by Diana Sisson; Betsy Sisson
Publication Date: 2024This book provides step-by-step strategies and scaffolds for teaching close reading and improving students' comprehension of complex texts.Reading to belong: identity, perspective and advocacy in the elementary grades by Alyson Lamont; Pamela Washington; Emilie Hard
Publication Date: 2024This work aims to equip educators with tools to facilitate critical conversations with students - to question what they read, consume, and hear. Reading to Belong: Identity, Perspective and Advocacy in the Elementary Grades bridges the gap between research and practice by sharing snapshots of conversations happening in real classrooms. The language of mirrors and windows anchors discussions as students deepen an understanding of themselves, experience different perspectives, and ultimately use this knowledge to change their world for the better.Differentiating phonics instruction for maximum impact: how to scaffold whole-group instruction so all students can access grade-level content by Wiley Blevins
Publication Date: 2024Author Wiley Blevins is renowned for changing the way educators think about teaching children to read, helping thousands of teachers implement effective phonics instruction. Now, Blevins gets us to think in powerful new ways about differentiating whole-class phonics lessons, so students at every skill level can engage.Teaching reading fundamentals and strategies with social-emotional learning by Marjorie S. Schiering (Ed.)
Publication Date: 2024This book provides six different strategies for teaching the fundamentals of reading with social-emotional learning in mind. With engaging lesson plans, there is a strategy for every learner, including the teaching of thinking with reciprocity among three Phases, and recognizing feelings with distinguishing thinking from feelings, as well as their impact on teaching and learning.Unraveling dyslexia: a guide for teachers and families by Kristin L. Sayeski
Publication Date: 2024In this book, Sayeski translates research from neuroscience, cognitive psychology, linguistics, and education into accessible information to help teachers and parents unravel the complexities of skilled reading. Unraveling dyslexia requires an understanding of what it means to read--both the accurate recognition of words and the capacity to bring meaning to those words--and identifying where and how difficulty can occur with these processes.Reading with purpose : selecting and using children's literature for inquiry and engagement by Erika Thulin Dawes; Katie Egan Cunningham; Grace Enriquez; Mary Ann Cappiello; Xenia Hadjioannou (Foreword)
Publication Date: 2024From the authors of the popular blog and resource for teachers, The Classroom Bookshelf, this book offers a framework and teaching ideas for using recently released children's and young adult literature to build a culture of inquiry and engagement from a text-first approach. Reading With Purpose is designed to help K-8 teachers tap into their inner reader, to make intentional text selections for their students, and to create joyful and purpose-driven literacy learning experiences.
2023
Culturally responsive reading: teaching literature for social justiceCulturally Responsive Reading by Durthy A. Washington; Carolyn Denard (Foreword)
Publication Date: 2023Help students to explore the intertextuality of literature and to think more deeply and compassionately about the world. This book shows high school teachers and college instructors how to foreground a work's cultural context, recognizing that every culture has its own narrative tradition of oral and written classics that inform its literature.I hate reading: overcoming shame in the reading classroom by Justin M. Stygles
Publication Date: 2023With this remarkable book, Stygles shows us how to build an interpersonal bridge with students and make vulnerability okay. But make no mistake disengaged readers need to feel competent before they fully buy in, and so the author packs the book with powerful instructional ideas.Multicultural books for preK-grade three: a guide for classroom teachers by Xiufang Chen (Ed.); Susan Browne (Ed.)
Publication Date: 2023A practical guide for teachers seeking to use multicultural literature in the early grades.Powerful literacy in the Montessori classroom: aligning reading research and practice by Susan Zoll; Natasha Feinberg; Laura Saylor; Daniel Willingham; Trisha Thompson-Willingham
Publication Date: 2023Teaching reading successfully requires deep knowledge of the reading process and development, as well as the implementation of impactful reading instruction and differentiation. This book aligns Montessori didactic materials and pedagogy, developed over a century ago, with current research on reading development.Reading for justice: engaging middle level readers in social action through young adult literature by Ashley S. Boyd; Janine J. Darragh
Publication Date: 2023This book illustrates how middle level English language arts teachers can draw upon young adult literature to facilitate students' understanding of issues of oppression and allow them opportunities for social action.Teaching with comics and graphic novels: fun and engaging strategies to improve close reading and critical thinking in every classroom by Tim Smyth
Publication Date: 2023Author Tim Smyth offers a wide variety of lessons and ideas for using comics to teach close reading, working with textual evidence, literature adaptations, symbolism and culture, sequencing, essay writing, and more. He also models how to use comics to tackle tough topics and enhance social-emotional learning.Teens choosing to read : fostering social, emotional, and intellectual growth through books by Gay Ivey; Peter Johnston
Publication Date: 2023In a sea of troubling reports about education, teaching, reading, and the well-being of teens, Ivey and Johnston bring some good news that shows what happens when we stop underestimating young people. This accessible book offers an engaging account of a 4-year study of adolescents who went from reluctant to enthusiastic readers. These youth reported that reading not only helped them manage their stress, but also helped them negotiate happier, more meaningful lives.- Workshopping the canon for democracy and justice by Mary StyslingerPublication Date: 2023"Workshopping the Canon for Democracy and Justice is a book rewritten during uncertain times to show teachers how to create and conduct a workshop focused on social justice issues relevant and critical to middle and secondary learners and citizens."
2022
Bringing sports culture to the English classroom: an interest-driven approach to literacy instruction by Luke Rodesiler; Jeffrey D. Wilhelm (Foreword)
Publication Date: 2022This practical book promotes an instructional approach that honors students' knowledge of, interests in, and experiences with sports culture to advance literacy learning. Informed by his own experiences in high school classrooms, the author documents the distinct methods employed by four secondary English teachers in rural, urban, and suburban schools. Each narrative features the voices of teachers and students and details a range of activities that readers can adapt for their unique contexts.Closing the literacy gap: accelerating the progress of underperforming students by Thomas G. Gunning; Raven Jones Stanbrough (Foreword)
Publication Date: 2022Packed with practical tools, this book provides K-6 educators with a research-based framework for accelerating the reading and writing growth of underperforming students. Strategies and resources are included for building foundational skills, comprehension, and vocabulary; engaging students with independent reading and periodicals; developing writing; and implementing tutoring and other extra supports. The book gives special attention to helping those most affected by the literacy gap--Black and Latinx students, students living in poverty, and students with reading disabilities.Culturally sustaining literacy pedagogies: honoring students' heritages, literacies, and languages by Susan Chambers Cantrell (Ed.); Doris Walker-Dalhouse (Ed.); Althier M. Lazar (Ed.)
Publication Date: 2022The authors guide pre- and inservice educators in creating classroom environments and learning experiences that foster students' literacy and language development, engagement with school, and critical consciousness. Chapter authors explore questions about how CSP is enacted in classrooms and how it impacts students, especially in schools that are heavily influenced by standardized testing and curricula.High attention reading: preparing students for independent reading of informational text by Elizabeth Hale
Publication Date: 2022Hale argues that increasing the number of informational texts children read is important but not enough to achieve this goal. In order to prepare students for the reading demands of high school, it is essential that we provide strategic scaffolding for the habits of mind required to read this genre at a high level and the motivation to do so. The author introduces elementary and middle school teachers to a format called HART (High Attention Reading through Talking) that uses purposeful, intermittent student talk to heighten engagement and accountability during independent reading.Inclusive texts in elementary classrooms: developing literacies, identities, and understandingsInclusive Texts in Elementary Classrooms by Amy J. Heineke; Aimee Papola-Ellis
Publication Date: 2022Learn how to put children's diverse and storied experiences at the center of the curriculum. Schools are more diverse than ever before, but the texts and materials that typify classroom curricula continue to prioritize so-called mainstream stories and perspectives. These canonical texts often exclude the nuanced identities and rich lived experiences of the very children sitting in today's classrooms. But kids thrive when they see themselves in texts and learn about the world around them by connecting with the experiences of others. Based on the authors' work with elementary school teachers over the last decade, this resource offers strategies for moving away from canonical texts.Multimodal literacies in young emergent bilinguals: beyond print-centric practices by Sally Brown (Ed.); Ling Hao (Ed.)
Publication Date: 2022This book presents research focused on young emergent bilingual children's multimodal meaning-making processes in diverse cultural and linguistic settings. Chapters draw on a range of theoretical frameworks and expand on traditional notions of literacy, especially for students who are working to learn English as a new language. The insights into original research studies will help readers understand the many avenues that one can take as a practitioner in order to ensure that student assets are built upon to promote positive literate identities and learning experiences and, ultimately, to promote literacy success for diverse learners.Reading assessment to promote equitable learning: an empowering approach for grades K-5 by Laurie Elish-Piper; Mona W. Matthews; Victoria J. Risko; H. Richard Milner (Foreword)
Publication Date: 2022Many standard reading assessment approaches fail to capture the strengths and needs of students from diverse sociocultural, linguistic, and academic backgrounds. From expert authors, this book guides educators in planning and conducting meaningful, equitable assessments that empower K-5 teachers and students, inform responsive instruction, and help to guard against bias.The science of reading: a handbook by Margaret J. Snowling (Ed.); Charles Hulme (Ed.); Kate Nation (Ed.)
Publication Date: 2022The Science of Reading presents the most recent advances in the study of reading and related skills. Bringing together contributions from a multidisciplinary team of experts, this comprehensive volume reviews theoretical approaches, stage models of reading, cross-linguistic studies of reading, reading instruction, the neurobiology of reading, and more.Modern reading practices and collaboration between schools, family, and community by Ana Patricia Almeida (Ed.); Sandrina Esteves (Ed.)
Publication Date: 2022Modern Reading Practices and Collaboration Between Schools, Family, and Community is a premier reference book that consolidates knowledge on reading competence. It presents the processes inherent in the act of reading and the mechanisms underlying the teaching and learning of reading, as well as all recent research in this area. Covering topics such as communication development, learning motivation, and transliteracy...
2021
Love & literacy: a practical guide for grades 5-12 to finding the magic in literature by Paul Bambrick-Santoyo; Stephen Chiger
Publication Date: 2021Love and Literacy steps into the classrooms of extraordinary teachers who have guided students to the highest levels of literacy. There is magic in their teaching, but that magic is replicable. It starts with a simple premise: kids fall in love with texts when they understand them, and that understanding comes from the right knowledge and/or the right strategy at the right time.Teaching critical reading and writing in the era of fake news by Ellen C. Carillo (Ed.); Alice S. Horning (Ed.)
Publication Date: 2021This collection offers support for instructors who are concerned about students' critical literacy abilities. Attending to critical reading to help students navigate fake news, as well as other forms of disinformation and misinformation, is the job of instructors across all disciplines, but is especially important for college English instructors because students' reading problems play out in many and varied ways in students' writing.
2020
Digitally supported disciplinary literacy for diverse K-5 classrooms by Jamie Colwell; Amy Hutchison; Lindsay Woodward; Tom Bean (Foreword by)
Publication Date: 2020With an emphasis on reaching all learners, the authors present Planning for Elementary Digitally supported Disciplinary Literacy (PEDDL)--a six-phase framework that introduces readers to an approach for integrating disciplinary literacy into instruction using various types of digital tools to support literacy learning. Including instructional methods and lesson plans, the text demonstrates how the tools can be incorporated into English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies classrooms.Effective practices in online teacher preparation for literacy educators by Rachel Karchmer-Klein (Editor); Kristine E. Pytash (Editor)
Publication Date: 2020Effective Practices in Online Teacher Preparation for Literacy Educators is shares innovative ideas for translating face-to-face reading/literacy specialist preparation into effective online instruction for courses in literacy education.Guided practice for reading growth, grades 4-8: texts and lessons to improve fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary by Laura J. Robb; David L. Harrison
Publication Date: 2020Guided Practice for Reading Growth provides all you need to support middle grade students reading two or more years below grade level. Twenty-four powerful reading lessons feature original poems and short texts that interest students and encourage them to think deeply.Reading actively in middle grade science: teachers and students in action by Don K. Philpot
Publication Date: 2020This book focuses on the cyclical nature of reading, the actions proficient readers engage in to understand science textbooks and other informational texts, and the instructional support that teachers can provide to enhance middle grade students' learning of science content through reading.Using creativity to address dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyscalculia: assessment and techniques by Fredricka K. Reisman; Lori Severino
Publication Date: 2020"Designed to help educators recognize and nurture students with dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyscalculia, this book guides readers through best practices for using creativity theory and strategies to address the learning challenges for students who have difficulty in acquiring literacy and mathematics content. Offering concrete examples of creativity assessment and pedagogical techniques, chapters are supported by rich Appendices providing assessment and screening checklists, time-telling objectives, learning trouble spots, a creative approach to teaching place value, and a handy cross-referencing table."
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