Reading Activities - Softcover

Erlenbusch, Sue Jones

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130549835 ISBN 13: 9780130549839

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2000

Synopsis

All of this material is conveniently organized into 12 monthly sections plus an introduction and is printed in a big 8-1/4" x 11" format for easy photocopying. Each of the monthly teaching ideas includes all of the details and directions you need to use it effectively in your own instruction. Ready-to-Use Reading Activities for the Elementary Classroom gives you a comprehensive store of fun-filled games and activities that will catch and hold your students interests while building specific reading skills throughout the year.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

For classroom teachers and reading specialists, this unique resource provides a complete, year-round collection of easy-to-use teaching ideas and activity sheets to supplement any developmental or remedial reading program in grades 1 through 6.  All of this material is conveniently organized into 12 monthly sections plus an introduction and is printed in a spiral-bound format that folds flat for photocopying.

Here are just a few of the teaching ideas and reproducible activities you?ll find in each monthly section, beginning with September:

SEPTEMBER
Ideas: Phonics Workbooks?Word Lists for Labor Day and Back to School
Activities: Schoolhouse Word Hunt?Back to School Maze...Word Match

OCTOBER
Ideas: The Fun Box?Grading Papers?Word List for Halloween 
Activities: Columbus Day Word Hunt... Jack-o?-Lantern Puzzle... Word Hunt

NOVEMBER
Ideas: Visitor?s Day?Word Lists for Veterans Day and Thanksgiving
Activities: Turkey Time?Thanksgiving Puzzle?The Lost Feast

DECEMBER
Ideas: Library Center?Read-In?Making a Reading Cave?Game Boards
Activities: Christmas Puzzle?A Letter to Santa?Hanukkah

JANUARY
Ideas: Superstar Bulletin Board?Word List for Martin Luther King Day
Activities: New Year?s Eve Puzzle?The Hidden Sled?Snowball Fight

FEBRUARY
Ideas: Broken Heart Game?Library Contest?Word List for Groundhog Day
Activities: Saint Valentine?Sentence Completion?Lincoln?s Birthday

MARCH
Ideas: Listening Lesson?Game Board?Word List for St. Patrick?s Day
Activities: Shamrock Maze? Shopping Spree?Legend of the Leprechaun

APRIL
Ideas: Scrambled Egg Game ? Using Cartoons to Teach Quotation Marks
Activities: Arbor Day?The Lost Bonnet?Easter Vowel Puzzle

MAY/JUNE
Ideas: Cloze technique?Word Lists for Mother?s Day and Father?s Day
Activities: May Day Superstitions?Memorial Day?Flag Day

JULY/AUGUST
Ideas: Word Lists for Independence Day and Columbus Sails
Activities: Independence Day Word Hunt and Columbus Sails

Each of the monthly teaching ideas includes all of the details and directions you need to use it effectively in your own instruction.  And to help you quickly locate appropriate activities to build specific skills, you?ll find a special Skills Index that lists each student activity page by number and title, followed by the skill it develops.

In short, Ready-to-Use Reading Activities for the Elementary Classroom gives you a comprehensive store of fun-filled games and activities that will catch and hold your students? interests while building specific reading skills throughout the year.

About the Author:

Sue Jones Erlenbusch (Ed.D., University of Missouri) is a veteran reading teacher who currently teaches at Berkeley Middle School in Florissant, Missouri, and freelances as a workshop presenter. Dr. Erlenbusch is also the author of Tales of Mystery, Suspense, and the Supernatural (1995), Ready-to-Use Reading Activities Through the Year (1992), and Favorite Books Activities Kit (1993), all published by The Center for Applied Research in Education.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0130549835
• ISBN 13: 9780130549839
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 324