Improving Reading: Strategies, Resources, and Common Core Connections

Author(s): Jerry Johns, Susan Lenski

Improving Reading is perhaps the most comprehensive, useful reading resource available. It is full of ideas for professionals who work with whole classes, individual students, or groups of students. The eight chapters correlate with the main components of a comprehensive reading curriculum and the C...

Teaching Reading and Writing PreK-3: A Practical Approach

Author(s): Jerry Johns, Susan Lenski, Laurie Elish-Piper, Roya Qualls Scales

Effective literacy instruction lies at the intersection of theory and practice. But how does one combine these principles to design and implement effective reading and writing lessons that are accessible, engaging, and practical? Teaching Reading and Writing PreK-3 provides preservice teachers wi...

Spanish Reading Inventory

Author(s): Jerry Johns, Mayra C Daniel

Spanish Reading Inventory (Pre-Primer to Grade 8) is a collection of individually administered informal reading tests designed to help teachers and other professionals determine a student's reading proficiency in Spanish.  A series of word lists and passages ranging from the early stages of readi...

Visualization: Using Mental Images to Strengthen Comprehension

Author(s): Linda Zeigler, Jerry Johns

Visualization has not been a common word in most classroom reading programs. In recent years, however, the impact of visualization on student comprehension has gained greater awareness among reading educators. This compact, easy-to-use book helps teachers understand visualization and how to apply th...

Fluency: Questions, Answers, and Evidence-Based Strategies

Author(s): Patricia Smith, Melanie Walski, Jerry Johns, Roberta L. Berglund

Are you trying to help your students become more fluent readers?Are you doing progress monitoring? Do you think that differentiating fluency interventions can help you respond to individual differences among your students?Help is on the way. This easy to use resource is written with teachers in mind...

Improving Writing K-8: Strategies, Assessments, Resources

Author(s): Susan Lenski, Jerry Johns

Improving Writing: Resources, Strategies, and Assessments, by well-known and trusted authors Susan Davis Lenski and Jerry L. Johns, provides teachers with all the background they need to help students improve their writing skills.A variety of strategies, assessment ideas, and resources will meet div...

Foundations of Child and Youth Care

Author(s): Carol Stuart, Kristen Fryer

Foundations of Child & Youth Care explores the field of child and youth care, introducing unique perspectives, theories, and interventions in which the practice is grounded as well as emerging concepts essential to current practice. Foundations of Child & Youth Care:Describes foundational concepts w...

Family Time Reading Fun - Help Children Become Successful Listeners, Speakers, Thinkers, Readers and Writers: A Resource for Parents, Teachers and Tutors

Author(s): Linda M Clinard

 Family Time Reading Fun contains:Part I  TEN KEYS TO LITERACYPart 2  INFLUENCES ON LITERACY DEVELOPMENT including:Attitude and InterestsPhysical FactorExpectationsEducational Experiences and ResourcesTesting and Other AssessmentsParents!Part 3  102 LITERACY STRATEGIES WITH A PURPOSEStrategies are g...

Keys for Literacy Innovations: Maximizing Student Success with Reading and Writing Connections

Author(s): Elaine Roberts, Debra Coffey

We hope you enjoy this book. You will note that our chapters highlight insights from The Secret Garden. Throughout the book, we will consider the ways Mary took care of plants in the secret garden to help them thrive just as she led Colin from a world of darkness to the joys of light and friendship....

Pathways to Leadership in Early Childhood Education: A Practical Guide for Aspiring and Current Educators

Author(s): Priscilla Jeter-Iles, Stephanie Blake, Cherie Crosby-Weeks