Improving Reading: Strategies, Resources, and Common Core Connections
Edition: 7
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 542
Edition: 7
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 544
Edition: 7
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 544
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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 Common Core. Sections within each chapter provide teaching interventions, strategies, activities, and resources to help students overcome specific reading problems or to achieve the Common Core standards.
Teachers can use Improving Reading as they plan instruction for the Common Core and interventions for struggling readers using the Response to Intervention (RTI) model.
Improving Reading and the Common Core includes:
- print concepts and phonological awareness
- phonics and word recognition
- fluency
- vocabulary acquisition and use
- basic comprehension skills
- more specialized comprehension skills and strategies needed for literary (narrative) and informational (expository) texts
Improving Reading features:
- a quick reference guide inside the front cover that lists 71 student behaviors in reading.
- over 200 strategies and interventions, linked to the 71 student behaviors that can be used to help students become better readers.
- more than 400 practice and reinforcement activities that expand the strategies and interventions to help enhance student learning.
- specific references in each chapter to the Common Core anchor standards and Reading Foundational Skills.
- references to reproducible student pages and teacher resources that can be printed through a dedicated website.
Chapter 1 Motivation, Engagement, Interests, and Attitudes
Chapter 2 Oral Language, Phonemic Awareness, and Beginning Reading
Chapter 3 Phonics, Decoding, and Word Recognition
Chapter 4 Fluency and Effective Oral Reading
Chapter 5 Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Chapter 6 Comprehension Strategies
Chapter 7 Comprehending Fictional Texts
Chapter 8 Comprehending Informational Texts
Jerry L. Johns has been recognized as a distinguished teacher, writer, outstanding teacher educator, and popular professional development speaker for schools, school districts, and conferences. He has taught students from kindergarten through graduate school and also served as a reading teacher. Professor Johns spent his career at Northern Illinois University. He served in leadership positions at the local, state, national, and international levels. He has been president of the International Literacy Association, the Illinois Reading Council, the Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers, and the Northern Illinois Reading Council. He also served on the Board of Directors for each of these organizations as well as the American Reading Forum. Dr. Johns has authored or coauthored nearly 300 articles, monographs, and research studies as well as over 40 professional books. His Basic Reading Inventory, now in the 12th edition, is widely used in undergraduate and graduate classes as well as by practicing teachers.
Dr. Lenski has been recognized by several organizations for her commitment to education. Among her numerous awards, are the Nila Banton Smith Award from the International Reading Association; she was instrumental in her school receiving an Exemplary Reading program Award from the International Reading Association; and she was inducted into the Illinois Reading Hall of Fame. She is currently on the International Reading Association's Board of Directors.
Dr. Lenski's research interests focus on strategic reading and writing and adolescent literacy. She also conducts research on preparing teacher candidates. Dr. Lenski has conducted numerous inservice presentations in the United States, Canada, Guatemala, the Philippines, and Panama and has presented at many state and national conferences. Dr. Lenski has published more than 60 articles and twelve books.
“I use Improving Reading as my core text for Literacy Assessment and Intervention Practicum. I like how CCSS is woven into the introduction to each chapter, as they map onto the Massachusetts English Language Arts Framework so closely. These standards are the foundation for each students' literacy intervention plan."
-Pamela M., Language and Literacy Program
Harvard Graduate School of Education