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...

Comprehension and Vocabulary Strategies for the Elementary Grades w/ CD ROM

Author(s): Jerry Johns, Susan Lenski, Roberta L. Berglund

Each of the 44+ research-based strategies in this book is presented step-by-step with the description, teaching goals, procedures, and student reproducibles. A quick reference guide helps educators find the specific are they wish to target, and then notes when, why, and how to use that strategy in t...

Essential Comprehension Strategies for the Intermediate Grades

Author(s): Jerry Johns, Susan Lenski, Roberta L. Berglund

View the Reading Resources Catalog This new book presents comprehension strategies that have utility in reading, as well as other areas of the curriculum. All of the materials necessary for implementing each of the 23 strategies are includes, as well as examples of how the strategy might be used ...

Reading and Learning Strategies: Middle Grades Through High School

Author(s): Jerry Johns, Susan Lenski, Micki M Caskey, Mary Ann Wham

This fourth edition is based on the Professional Standards developed by the International Reading Assoc. (IRA). Educators will get over 100 content-relevant instructional strategies. Each research-based strategy includes a detailed explanation and examples from various content areas. A quick refe...

Reading Strategies for Spanish Speakers

Author(s): Susan Lenski, Fabiola Ehlers-Zavala

Reading Strategies for Spanish Speakers by Susan Davis Lenski and Fabiola Ehlers-Zavala, provides strategies for classroom teachers, bilingual teachers, and paraprofessionals who have Spanish-speaking students to teach reading strategies in both English and Spanish. This book was developed on the pr...

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...

Teaching Reading Pre-K to Grade 3 w/CD-ROM

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

This book broadens the scope of teaching and assessment strategies critical for addressing a wide range of abilities of children in Pre-K to Grade 3. This edition provides teachers with research-based, practical teaching and assessment strategies to support the reading development of all children in...