Ebook: Teaching Kids to Read: Embracing Guided Reading in Primary School Classrooms

"A solid resource to help teachers understand the basic foundation for literacy development through guided reading in the primary grade." —Patti Ulshafer, first-grade teacher
Develop successful readers with these strategies for before, during, and after reading.
In Teaching Kids to Read, Gail Saunders-Smith describes the cognitive processes of emergent readers and provides educators with clear guidelines for promoting reading comprehension with small groups of young learners.
A variety of exercises included helps children to locate, record, retrieve, and manipulate information from texts while enabling teachers to measure how students respond in oral, written, graphic, and three-dimensional forms.
Topics covered include:

Aliteracy

Coaching statements

Elements of craft

False positive readers

Fresh text

Guided reading

Instructional practice

Metacognition

Phonemic awareness

Self-monitoring

Shared reading

Sight words

Study skills

Teacher talk

Workable words

and more!