Teaching Kids to Read
Embracing Guided Reading in Primary School Classrooms
Published on 1. March 2022
112 pages
978-1-5107-7016-4 (ISBN)
Description
"A solid resource to help teachers understand the basic foundation for literacy development through guided reading in the primary grade." -Patti Ulshafer, first-grade teacher
Develop successful readers with these strategies for before, during, and after reading.
In Teaching Kids to Read, Gail Saunders-Smith describes the cognitive processes of emergent readers and provides educators with clear guidelines for promoting reading comprehension with small groups of young learners.
A variety of exercises included helps children to locate, record, retrieve, and manipulate information from texts while enabling teachers to measure how students respond in oral, written, graphic, and three-dimensional forms.
Topics covered include:
- Aliteracy
- Coaching statements
- Elements of craft
- False positive readers
- Fresh text
- Guided reading
- Instructional practice
- Metacognition
- Phonemic awareness
- Self-monitoring
- Shared reading
- Sight words
- Study skills
- Teacher talk
- Workable words
- and more!
More details
Person
Gail Saunders-Smith is a former classroom teacher. She has served as a Reading Recovery teacher leader, a reading/language arts K-12 supervisor, and a coordinator of state and federal programs for the Summit County Educational Service Center. Currently, Gail is an assistant professor at the Beeghly College of Education at Youngstown State University. She is also an independent staff developer, writer, and editor. She has presented across the United States and Canada and written several books and articles on all aspects of literacy development. Gail holds a BS and MA in early childhood education from Kent State University and an MS in administration and supervision from Youngstown State University. She completed postgraduate work at Ohio State University and earned a PhD in curriculum and instruction from the University of Akron. She lives in Youngstown, Ohio.
Content
- Front Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Introduction
- Part I: Foundations
- Chapter 1: How Learning Happens
- Chapter 2: The Continuum of Development
- Chapter 3: The Reading Process
- Part II: Techniques
- Chapter 4: Teacher Talk
- Chapter 5: Grouping Schemes
- Chapter 6: Analyzing Texts
- Part III: Putting It All Together
- Chapter 7: Before Guided Reading
- Chapter 8: Guided Reading
- Chapter 9: After Guided Reading
- Glossary
- Resource List
- Bibliography
