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Increase Your Score In 3 Minutes A Day: ACT Reading (Increase Your Score) 3 reviews
Randall McCutcheon, James Schaffer
McGraw-Hill, 2005
An ACT survivor
A must-buy for the ACT. If you only buy one book to prepare for this test, make sure it's this one. The strategies are specific and useful. No wasteful filler like you find in the other prep books. The authors tell you exactly what to do to increase your score. And the book is fun to read.
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Reading With Meaning: Teaching Comprehension in the Primary Grades35 reviews
Debbie Miller
Stenhouse Publishers, 2002
Wonderful resource
This is a great book for any teacher to have. I work as a special ed teacher, so I work with one or two students at a time. The strategies described in this book are wonderful for teaching comprehension. One thing I really liked is that she explains how she does her lessons step by step. She even writes word for word what she says during each lesson. I think it's wonderful that teachers share ...
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Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension for Understanding and Engagement 35 reviews
Stephanie Harvey, Anne Goudvis
Stenhouse Publishers, 2007
Engaging Children Through Understanding What They Read
Engaging children in books and loving reading is a natural next step when they understand and go to a deeper level to embrace books. Another must-have for kids 4-8 are 2 fabulous pieces of children's literature with invaluable teaching guides for parents and teachers:The Big Squeal: A Wild, True, and Twisted Tail and
Life's Little Lessons: An Inch-By-Inch Tale of Success...which teach those all ...
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines 58 reviews
Thomas C. Foster
Harper Paperbacks, 2003
makes you look a the novels you read in a different way
How to Read Literature Like a Professor explains some of the devices used by authors to express themselves. The author covers many aspects of the novel such as the quest and the frequent appearance of references to previous authors such as Shakespeare. The author's approach is flexible, he explains that, for example the weather, can have many uses as a device rather than just one. Rather than ...
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Mosaic of Thought, Second Edition: The Power of Comprehension Strategy Instruction10 reviews
Ellin Oliver Keene, Susan Zimmermann
Heinemann, 2007
Second Edition of Mosaic much more practical!
Ellin Keene has added a lot more depth and practicality in her second edition. All teachers of reading should read this book!
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Guiding Readers and Writers: Teaching Comprehension, Genre, and Content Literacy21 reviews
Irene C. Fountas, Gay Su Pinnell
Heinemann, 2001
Must have resource
Every teacher who teaches grades 3-6 should own this book. It has practical mini-lessons, rationale for teaching comprehension strategies and additional resources. If you don't already own it, you should get your hands on a copy.
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Qualitative Reading Inventory-4 (4th Edition)13 reviews
Lauren Leslie, JoAnne Schudt Caldwell
Allyn & Bacon, 2005
Qualitative Reading Inventory-4
Great informal reading inventory. It is a little tricky to administer but gets easier with repeated usage. Comes with CD that has sample videos of administering and the necessary recording forms.
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Reading Comprehension GMAT Preparation Guide (Manhattan GMAT Preparation Guides)3 reviews
Manhattan GMAT Prep
MG Prep, Inc., 2007
Great help for the GMAT
Reading Comprehension is one of the most difficult areas to improve in a short time for the GMAT. If you are not getting good scores in this section and if you've not been a life long reader, then it is not easy to improve your score - it will take hard work and a lot of practice, and probably the Manhattan GMAT RC guide.
This book is definitely one of the best out there for this section. The ...
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Reading Like A Lawyer: Time-Saving Strategies For Reading Law Like An Expert4 reviews
Ruth Ann McKinney
Carolina Academic Press, 2005
Mandatory Reading For Law Students -- Critical Reading Curriculum Instructor, Phillip G. Hubbard Law School Preparation Program
When I was asked to teach the "critical reading curriculum" at The University of Iowa's Phillip G. Hubbard Law School Preparation Program, I researched methodically to find a text that would be "on point" as they say in the legal world. Ruth Ann McKinney's Reading Like A Lawyer is just that. Written in an engaging and easy to read style, McKinney teaches prospective and current law students all ...
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I Read It, but I Don't Get It: Comprehension Strategies for Adolescent Readers41 reviews
Cris Tovani
Stenhouse Publishers, 2000
A key resource for secondary or high school teachers
Tovani has produced a concise and practical resource for literacy development in high schools. Full of practical ideas based on current knowledge about how we learn, the book is useful to teachers in all subject areas. I have used this book in my work as a school administrator, and now it is a basic textbook in our university secondary teacher education program.
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Easy Spanish Reader41 reviews
William Tardy
McGraw-Hill, 2003
A great review of Spanish if you need to brush up- like I do!
I studied Spanish for six years, with the last being the 1996-1997 academic year. I have tuned in to Spanish media and read a few Spanish language magazines. I wanted to return to the nuts and bolts of the language, with an affordable textbook. I picked up Easy Spanish Reader because it was affordable and promising.
Like any good student, I began with the first story about the two high school ...
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Comprehension Connections: Bridges to Strategic Reading5 reviews
Tanny McGregor
Heinemann, 2007
Concrete Gold Mine
Since Mosaic of Thought, I've been reading a lot about teaching reading comprehension strategies. But like my special education students, I needed someone to show me how to teach them-concretely. This little gem gives you anchor lessons for each strategy. The anchor lessons use objects, songs, movement to introduce students to reading strategies. I highly recommend this book to my special ...
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Daily Word Ladders: Grades 2-37 reviews
Timothy Rasinski
Teaching Resources, 2005
fun word activities build vocabulary
This is a solid book for building elementary vocabulary. It has 100 reproducible word study lessons that help kids boost reading, spelling and phonics skills independently. Among the many activities, kids read clues on each rung, then change and rearrange letters to create words until they reach the top. All the while, they are boosting decoding and spelling skills, broadening vocabulary, and ...
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To Understand: New Horizons in Reading Comprehension 3 reviews
Ellin Oliver Keene
Heinemann, 2008
The future of comprehension instruction...
... is beautifully and inspirationally detailed in Ellin Keene's new book, "To Understand".
Building effectively on the base of her original work, Mosaic of Thought, Second Edition: The Power of Comprehension Strategy Instruction, Keene spells out the next steps in teaching those comprehension strategies by getting them to always think more deeply, more purposefully, more richly. More so than ...
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Kaplan SAT Critical Reading Workbook
Kaplan
Kaplan Publishing, 2008
Includes everything students need to conquer the Critical Reading section of the exam with: *In-depth coverage of the SAT Critical Reading section *Hundreds of targeted practice questions with detailed answer explanations covering every category of the SAT Critical Reading section, including reading comprehension, sentence completion, long and short reading passages *A chapter on SAT vocabulary with a glossary of frequently tested words *2 ...
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Do I Really Have to Teach Reading?: Content Comprehension, Grades 6-1215 reviews
Cris Tovani
Stenhouse Publishers, 2004
Great Book for Teachers
We are all reading teachers. We must teach the students to read so they will be able to succeed in all subjects.
This book has strategies for all teachers. The author makes some good points when describing an encounter with an industrial arts teacher who said, "students don't have to read in my class."
This book will show you how to make connections in your subject area to reading.
If ...
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Scholastic Success With Reading Comprehension Workbook (Grade 4)4 reviews
Scholastic
Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching, 2003
what a fine book
This book is great for those kids getting started with independent reading. The authors give great passages and problems specifically for the objectives in the 2nd grade curriculum. The practice items enforce what kids taught in school that otherwise just forgotten. The book offers many fine reading comprehension and vocabulary exercises. Your kids can never have too much of them.
I like such ...
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Understanding By Design28 reviews
Grant P. Wiggins, Jay McTighe
Assn. for Supervision & Curriculum Development, 2005
Fresh approach to curriculum design
I've used this book for three years in my graduate Curriculum Design courses for teachers. My students are practicing teachers who have seen dozens of lesson planning approaches and don't need some new theory just for the fun of it. But Wiggins and McTighe present a fresh perspective that doesn't so much replace as reposition traditional approaches. It boils down to what they call backward ...
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Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain19 reviews
Maryanne Wolf
Harper, 2007
A view from a reading teacher
I have taught written language skills (reading, writing and spelling) to reluctant learners (mainly individuals with dyslexia) for thirty years. This book, PROUST AND THE SQUID: THE STORY AND SCIENCE OF THE READING BRAIN, is a book that I would highly recommend to my colleagues and others interested in language and its development. The author, Maryanne Wolf, delights readers with a historical ...
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Week-by-Week Homework for Building Reading Comprehension and Fluency, Grades 3-6: 30 Reproducible, ...8 reviews
Mary Rose
Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching, 2002
Best Resource for Teaching Reading I've Found...
I absolutely love this book for both teachers or parents looking to improve reading skills. My daughter first came home with these stories from her 4th grade teacher and I loved them so much I bought a copy to use with the students I tutor. Now I'm teaching basic skills to fifth graders and do these stories one-on-one. Each story is intelligently written with a touch of humor and jam-packed ...
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