Best Practices for Teaching Reading: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do

Enrich your reading instruction with 40 classroom-tested best practices from award-winning teachers! This teaching resource is packed with lessons that work and ideas that can expand the teaching repertoire of new and veteran teachers alike. Readers will find strategies for building students skills in phonetics, phonemics, vocabulary, spelling, and comprehension. Applicable for all phases of reading instruction, this book includes techniques for teaching students with diverse learning styles and competencies and presents ways to: "Implement guided reading, read alouds, and reading groups "Use reflective questions as an assessment tool "Prepare learners for reading testsPromote family and community literacy