The Reading Turn-Around: A Five-Part Framework for Differentiated Instruction (Grades 2-5) (Language and Literacy Series) - Softcover

Jones, Stephanie; Clarke, Lane W.; Enriquez, Grace

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807750255 ISBN 13: 9780807750254

Publisher: Teachers College Press, 2009

Synopsis

This book demonstrates a five-part framework for teachers, reading specialists, and literacy coaches who want to help their least engaged students become powerful readers. Merging theory and practice, the guide offers successful strategies to reach your “struggling” learners. The authors show how teachers can “turn-around” their instructional practice, beginning with reading materials, lessons, and activities matching their students’ interests. Chapters include self-check exercises that will help teachers analyze their reading instruction, as well as specific advice for working with English Language Learners.

Book Features:

• Effective methods for differentiating reading instruction in Grades 2–5.
• Real-life classroom vignettes and examples of student work.
• Helpful teacher self-evaluation exercises.
• Strategies to use with English Language Learners.
• And much more!

About this title

Book Description

“This is a masterwork that is simultaneously practical and groundbreaking...The model these authors use to familiarize teachers with the essential elements of reading practice is clear and beautifully illustrated with stories of children you’ll swear you know.”
—From the Foreword by
Ellin Oliver Keene
, national staff developer

“This deeply intelligent and compassionate book provides teachers with detailed classroom scenarios and dozens of teaching tools for engaging all readers. The authors demonstrate how to help all students become motivated and powerful meaning-makers of a wide variety of texts.”
—
Katherine Bomer
, Literacy Consultant, K-12, author of
For a Better World: Reading and Writing for Social Action

“Unlike the plethora of books that claim to provide teachers with powerful teaching strategies to help children who struggle with reading, The Reading Turn-Around actually accomplishes this. The book is full of detailed case studies of students that teachers will recognize and strategies that teachers can use. There is no other book like it in the field.”
—
Catherine Compton-Lilly
, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison

From the Author

Stephanie Jones is an associate professor of education at the University of Georgia. Lane W. Clarke is an assistant professor in literacy at Northern Kentucky University. Grace Enriquez is an assistant professor in language and literacy at Lesley University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0807750255
• ISBN 13: 9780807750254
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 160