Teaching Reading

Designed to be a one-stop shop for best practices, Teaching Reading is concise, encyclopedic, and essential. Thirteen interactive modules provide easy to read ideas to support you teaching every child to read very well. Focus on two critical aspects of reading—word recognition and language comprehension. Reading is a thrilling but complex process. It involves a heady mix of skills, schema, self-concept, and social dimensions. To give all students the chance to reap its rewards, we need a go-big kind of resource. This is it.

• Focus on two critical aspects of reading—word recognition and language comprehension.
• Select the best activities to support students in grades K-6 to learn letters and sound relationships.
• Provide developing readers with the most effective oral, written, and reading experiences.
• Recharge your confidence and craft with uplifting new research findings from neuroscience, cognitive science, and child development.
• Clear up confusions about phonics progressions, reading fluency, morphology, text selection, grammar, and more.
• Author: Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, Diane Lapp