About the Reading Puzzle SeriesIn her best-selling book Teach Them
All To Read, Elaine McEwan provides a great discussion of the most
current reading research regarding how students learn to read so
educators can make informed decisions about instruction. Research
about reading has given us insight into the skills on which we need
to focus our efforts to improve reading and comprehension. Now we
can identify the skills that require reinforcement and intervene
with explicit, thoughtful instruction. The activities in The
Reading Puzzle series will help the teacher accomplish this
goal.The Reading Puzzle series provides instructional tools
teachers can use immediately as part of the reading curriculum. The
Reading Puzzle series contains 10 books for Kindergarten through
Grade 8 centered on the skills identified by the National Reading
Panel as critical to reading success. Each of these books in the
series helps unlock one piece of the reading puzzle and contains
standards-based, ready-to-use activities that can be used to
supplement any reading program.Phonemic Awareness, Grades K-3
Phonics, Grades K-3Vocabulary, Grades K-3Fluency, Grades
K-3Comprehension, Grades K-3Word Analysis, Grades 4-8Spelling,
Grades 4-8Vocabulary, Grades 4-8Fluency, Grades 4-8Comprehension,
Grades 4-8These activity books contain ready-to-use activities that
make it easy to put McEwan's highly-successful strategies into
practice. The strategies and activities will support struggling
readers and enhance existing skill to encourage improvement in all
students' reading skills.Vocabulary, Grades 4-8Because vocabulary
has been identified by the National Reading Panel (2000) as one of
the critical areas of reading instruction, this book focuses on
vocabulary instruction for all students, and especially those whose
underdeveloped word knowledge negatively impacts their academic
performance. This underperformance is characterized by a partial
knowledge of word meanings, confusion of words of similar sound,
and limited knowledge of how and when words are typically used. To
help at-risk students, several essential instructional factors must
be consciously addressed. This book has been designed to put theory
and research into practice and provide students with the targeted
and direct vocabulary instruction that they need. 'Word Selection
and Definition' provides you, the teacher, with concrete ways to
select vocabulary words and plan lessons. 'Take Five' includes
presentation techniques so you can make the most of each lesson and
provide an atmosphere in which all students will learn.'Extensive
Reading Lessons' focuses on ways for students to improve their
vocabulary in a natural way, through reading. 'Vocabulary
Instruction Lessons' is dedicated to direct instruction of
vocabulary words and contains a multitude of cumulative, sequential
activities. These activities should be presented in sequence, as
one activity builds on the other. 'Strategy Lessons' provides the
'best kept secrets' of good readers. At-risk learners and
struggling readers should be taught these strategies explicitly and
in order, with repeated practice. Some of these strategies include
using context clues, prefixes, suffixes, and word bases in
determining meaning. 'Word Awareness Lessons' focuses on increasing
word consciousness. This final chapter provides activities to
increase word awareness in all language tasks: listening, speaking,
reading, and writing.
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