Improving Reading: Strategies, Resources, and Common Core Connections Paperback / softback

7th edition coming soon!Improving Reading is perhaps the most comprehensive, useful reading resource available.

It is full of ideas for professionals who work with whole classes, individual students, or groups of students.

The eight Chapters correlate with the main components of a comprehensive reading curriculum and the Common Core.

Sections within each Chapter provide teaching interventions, strategies, activities, and resources to help students overcome specific reading problems or to achieve the Common Core standards. Teachers can use Improving Reading as they plan instruction for the Common Core and interventions for struggling readers using the Response to Intervention (RTI) model. Improving Reading and the Common Core includes:print concepts and phonological awarenessphonics and word recognitionfluencyvocabulary acquisition and usebasic comprehension skillsmore specialized comprehension skills and strategies needed for literary (narrative) and informational (expository) textsImproving Reading features:a quick reference guide inside the front cover that lists 71 student behaviors in reading. over 200 strategies and interventions, linked to the 71 student behaviors that can be used to help students become better readers. more than 400 practice and reinforcement activities that expand the strategies and interventions to help enhance student learning. specific references in each Chapter to the Common Core anchor standards and Reading Foundational Skills. references to reproducible student pages and teacher resources that can be printed through a dedicated website.