Month-by-Month Reading Instruction for the Differentiated Classroom: A Systematic Approach With Comprehension Mini-Lessons, Vocabulary-Building . Child Become a Confident, Capable Reader

A year's worth of lessons for teaching reading in K-2!

Veteran teachers Maria Walther and Katherine Phillips share their comprehensive approach to teaching reading in the K-2 classroom. A menu of mini-lessons for the first 25 days of school help teachers establish routines and introduce reading habits and behaviors. A month-by-month chart organizes a year's worth of mini-lessons in self-monitoring and decoding skills, comprehension strategies, vocabulary development, writing about reading, and genre awareness. Complete with morning message ideas, book lists for read-alouds and genre studies, mini-lessons for every aspect of reading, and strategies for supporting struggling readers and challenging more advanced ones, this book is everything teachers need to help children grow into confident readers!

Maria P. Walther, Ed.D., is a first-grade teacher in the Chicago area and an expert in early literacy. She is the author of four professional books, including Teaching Struggling Readers With Poetry and Literature is Back! She is also the coauthor of Next Step Guided Reading Assessment (Scholastic). Dr. Walther enjoys sharing her passion for teaching young literacy learners with other professionals.

Katherine Phillips coauthored Month-by-Month Trait-Based Writing Instruction. They teach first grade in the Chicago area.