Reading Connections

Reading Connections
Author: Cheryl Kamei-Hannan
Publisher: AFB Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2015-05
Genre: Blind children
ISBN: 9780891286349

Reading Connections: Strategies for Teaching Students with Visual Impairments offers an in-depth and user-friendly guide for understanding reading instruction for teachers and professionals seeking to improve the reading skills of their students who are visually impaired. The book addresses in detail the essential components of reading--phonemic awareness, phonics, reading fluency, vocabulary, and reading comprehension--as well as other key reading components and subskills. While this book addresses the needs of students who read print, braille, or both, much of the book is also consistent with strategies for teaching reading to students who have, or are at risk for, developing reading disabilities. Teachers of students with visual impairments, as well as family members and other professionals who work with children who are blind or visually impaired, will find within this book a repertoire of strategies and activities for creating a balanced, comprehensive plan of reading instruction for each student and for teaching the essential reading skills necessary for students' success.

Quiet Loud

Quiet Loud
Author: Leslie Patricelli
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 27
Release: 2011-11-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0763660272

Whether you read it quietly or loudly, learning about opposites has never been more fun - or funny - than with this winning book. Sniffles are quiet, but sneezes are loud. Amiably illustrated in a bright, graphic style, Leslie Patricelli’s spirited book, QUIET LOUD, stars an obliging, bald, and very expressive toddler who acts out each pair of opposites with comically dramatic effect.

On Rereading

On Rereading
Author: Patricia Meyer Spacks
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2013-11-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0674267478

After retiring from a lifetime of teaching literature, Patricia Meyer Spacks embarked on a year-long project of rereading dozens of novels: childhood favorites, fiction first encountered in young adulthood and never before revisited, books frequently reread, canonical works of literature she was supposed to have liked but didn’t, guilty pleasures (books she oughtn’t to have liked but did), and stories reread for fun vs. those read for the classroom. On Rereading records the sometimes surprising, always fascinating, results of her personal experiment. Spacks addresses a number of intriguing questions raised by the purposeful act of rereading: Why do we reread novels when, in many instances, we can remember the plot? Why, for example, do some lovers of Jane Austen’s fiction reread her novels every year (or oftener)? Why do young children love to hear the same story read aloud every night at bedtime? And why, as adults, do we return to childhood favorites such as The Hobbit, Alice in Wonderland, and the Harry Potter novels? What pleasures does rereading bring? What psychological needs does it answer? What guilt does it induce when life is short and there are so many other things to do (and so many other books to read)? Rereading, Spacks discovers, helps us to make sense of ourselves. It brings us sharply in contact with how we, like the books we reread, have both changed and remained the same.

Reading-Writing Connections

Reading-Writing Connections
Author: Rui A. Alves
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2020-06-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3030388115

This book shows that reading-writing is a two-way street that is burgeoning with research activity. It provides a comprehensive and updated view on reading-writing connections by drawing on extant research and findings. It puts forward a new conception of literacy, one that establishes reading and writing connections as the primeval ground for building literacy science. It shows how an integrative view of literacy can have deep and lasting effects on conceptualizing literacy development in several orthographies and on improving literacy instruction and remediation worldwide. The book examines in detail such issues as modeling approaches to reading-writing relations, literacy development, reading and spelling across orthographies and integrative approaches to literacy instruction and remediation.

Language at the Speed of Sight

Language at the Speed of Sight
Author: Mark Seidenberg
Publisher:
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2017-01-03
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0465019323

We’ve been teaching reading wrong—a leading cognitive scientist tells us how we can finally do it right

Choosing to Read

Choosing to Read
Author: Joan Schroeder Kindig
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780325031446

Kindig shows middle school teachers how to integrate student choice into a reading program. She outlines principles for identifying books kids will read, why choice will help them meet state standards and developmental needs, and how to make reading social and meaningful, match books to kids, prompt discussions, and help develop readers.

Language Connections

Language Connections
Author: Toby Fulwiler
Publisher:
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1982
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Intended for use by college and university educators, this book contains theoretical ideas and practical activities designed to enhance and promote writing across the curriculum programs. Topics discussed in the 12 major chapters are (1) conceptual frameworks of the cross writing program; (2) journal writing across the curriculum; (3) writing and problem solving; (4) assigning and evaluating transactional writing; (5) audience and purpose in writing; (6) the poetic function of language; (7) using narration to shape experience; (8) readers and expressive language; (9) what every educator should know about reading research; (10) reconciling readers and texts; (11) peer critiques, teacher student conferences, and essay evaluation as a means of responding to student writing; and (12) the role of the writing laboratory. A concluding chapter provides a select bibliography on language and learning across the curriculum. (FL)

Read for the Heart

Read for the Heart
Author: Sally Clarkson
Publisher: Apologia Educational Ministries
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2009-07-01
Genre: Best books
ISBN: 9781932012972

From timeless classics to modern favorites, this is your guide to the best in children's literature for the Christian family.

Connected Reading

Connected Reading
Author: Kristen Hawley Turner
Publisher: Principles in Practice
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780814108376

Turner and Hicks offer practical tips by highlighting classroom practices that engage students in reading and thinking with both print and digital texts, thus encouraging reading instruction that reaches all students. As readers of all ages increasingly turn to the Internet and a variety of electronic devices for both informational and leisure reading, teachers need to reconsider not just who and what teens read but where and how they read as well. Having ready access to digital tools and texts doesn't mean that middle and high school students are automatically thoughtful, adept readers. So how can we help adolescents become critical readers in a digital age? Using NCTE's policy research brief Reading Instruction for All Students as both guide and sounding board, experienced teacher-researchers Kristen Hawley Turner and Troy Hicks took their questions about adolescent reading practices to a dozen middle and high school classrooms. In this book, they report on their interviews and survey data from visits with hundreds of teens, which led to the development of their model of Connected Reading: "Digital tools, used mindfully, enable connections. Digital reading is connected reading." They argue that we must teach adolescents how to read digital texts effectively, not simply expect that teens can read them because they know how to use digital tools. Turner and Hicks offer practical tips by highlighting classroom practices that engage students in reading and thinking with both print and digital texts, thus encouraging reading instruction that reaches all students.