Teaching Reading [Higher-Ed Version]: A Playbook for Developing Skilled Readers Through Word Recognition and Language Comprehension

Teaching Reading is a comprehensive guide to evidence-based reading practices, written by renowned educators Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Diane Lapp. It provides easy-to-read ideas to support teachers in teaching every child to read well, focusing on word recognition and language comprehension. The book offers interactive modules, research findings, and practical strategies to help students attain deeper levels of comprehension and develop background knowledge and vocabulary.

Format: Spiral bound
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 10 April 2023
Publisher: Sage Publications Inc Ebooks

Teaching Reading is the ultimate guide you can rely on for evidence-based reading practices. This edition offers free access to teaching ancillaries such as lesson launchers, facilitator's notes, discussion board prompts, test banks, storyboards, and embedded tasks and assignments. It's a well-established fact: nurturing skilled readers can profoundly impact students' lives. That's why renowned educators Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Diane Lapp have authored this resource with the urgency of a code blue in an ER—because too many children, for various reasons, struggle with learning to become proficient readers. Designed as a comprehensive one-stop shop for best practices, Teaching Reading is concise, encyclopedic, and indispensable. Thirteen interactive modules offer easy-to-understand ideas to support you in teaching every child to read exceptionally well. You will discover how to:
1. Focus on two critical aspects of reading: word recognition and language comprehension.
2. Select the most effective activities to support students in grades K–6 in learning letters and sound relationships.
3. Provide developing readers with the most effective oral, written, and reading experiences.
4. Recharge your confidence and craft with uplifting new research findings from neuroscience, cognitive science, and child development.
5. Clear up confusions about phonics progressions, reading fluency, morphology, text selection, grammar, and more.
6. Develop background knowledge, vocabulary, and comprehension instruction.
7. Stay up-to-date on how to help students attain deeper levels of comprehension by applying Theory of Mind and other cutting-edge ideas.
8. Reading is a thrilling but complex process. It involves a heady mix of skills, schema, self-concept, and social dimensions. To ensure that all students have the opportunity to reap its rewards, we need a resource that goes the extra mile. This is it.

Weight: 848g
Dimension: 279 x 203 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781071920800