Put students on the road to reading with this clear and concise guide to teaching reading strategies to young learners. The irresistible lessons and activities introduce and model key strategies-including questioning, reading on, summarizing, visualizing, and rereading-that will help students become independent, strategic readers. Packed with reproducibles, checklists, and a great booklist that matches favorite books to the strategies they're perfect for teaching, this resource has everything teachers need to teach reading successfully. For use with Grades K-3.
Melody Bradbury-Wolff has taught for 18 years in grades K-4. She is currently a first grade teacher at Homan Elementary School in Schereville, IN, where she has taught for seven years. Melody holds a Master's degree in Elementary Administration.
Bette S. Bergeron, Ph.D., is a Professor of Education and the Head of the Faculty of Education at Arizona State University East. Her area of specialty is elementary literacy. Bergeron worked with Bradbury-Wolff in her classroom for 3 years to develop the ideas in this book.