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Autism and Reading
Comprehension: Ready-to-Use Lesson Plans for Teachers.
Joseph Porter, $40.95
Autism and Reading Comprehension contains 90 hours of animal-themed, whole-group instruction. The book provides a detailed description of what the lessons will look and feel like in the classroom, complete with valuable, first-hand advice. In the back, you’ll find an appendix with numerous suggestions for complementary activities, so you can supplement on the “off” days with art projects, music, books, and videos. The predictable format, repetition, and routine of these lessons will create a relaxed learning environment; while the variations in the topics will hold students’ attention and help them to generalize the reading skills they need to succeed. A companion CD contains all of the worksheets, lesson plans, visual tools, and assessment forms. |
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Becoming
a Great Teacher of Reading: Achieving High Rapid Reading Gains with
Powerful, Differentiated Strategies. Marie Carbo, $51.95
Literacy expert Marie Carbo pairs identifying
each learner's unique reading style with a wide range of differentiated
strategies to help all learners experience greater reading success.
Using these research-based methods, both novice and experienced
teachers can increase reading achievement with all learners, including
those who are at-risk, older, or have special needs, as well as
English Language Learners. This teacher-friendly resource includes
recommendations for:
- Closing the academic gap by focusing
on learning strengths
- Increasing readers' confidence and
creativity
- Accommodating students with special
needs
- Using reading labs with older students
A powerful tool for nurturing a love
of reading, Becoming a Great Teacher of Reading not only
strengthens students' reading comprehension and increases their
reading motivation and enjoyment, but also helps ensure their continuing
academic success. |
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The Big Book of Differentiated Reading Response
Activities, Grades 2-3. Rhonda Graff, $18.99
75 engaging, tiered reproducibles to help you find the
just-right activity for every reader. |
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Book Buddies: a Tutoring
Framework for Struggling Readers, 2nd Edition. Francine Johnston,
et al, $42.50 Grades K-3
This popular, practical resource provides guidelines for setting
up a successful tutorial program in grades K-3 and presents a field-tested
lesson format for individualized instruction. Clear explanations
and examples demonstrate how to use the book's wealth of activities
and exercises to assess students and build specific reading, writing,
and spelling skills. Also included are a 70-minute DVD depicting
sample sessions with a beginning reader and a late beginning reader,
a helpful glossary, a resource list, and more than two dozen reproducible
tutoring tools. |
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Brain,
Behavior and Learning in Language and Reading Disorders.
Maria Mody & Elaine Silliman, $55.50
Grounded in cutting-edge research on
brain/behavior relationships, this book explores how language and
reading disorders develop, and presents exciting new approaches
to examining and treating them. Experts from multiple disciplines
investigate how children's learning trajectories in spoken and written
language are shaped by the dynamic interplay of neurobiological,
experiential, and behavioral processes. The volume includes innovative
neuro-imaging applications and other techniques that help shed new
light on childhood disorders such as dyslexia, language impairment,
writing disabilities, and autism. Implications for evidence-based
diagnosis, intervention, and instruction are discussed. |
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Bringing
The Outside In: Visual Ways To Engage Reluctant Readers.
Sara B. Kajder, $27.95
The reading that we value in school is
becoming further and further distanced from the literacy students
experience in their outside lives. Keying in on the visual aspects
of literacy, and building upon students' growing interest in using
words and images from their lives to read and write for authentic
reasons and authentic audiences — integrating such strategies as
digital storytelling, visual think-alouds, visual literature circles,
and others into English class — this book redefines what it means
to be literate in today's world. By adding visual components to
class activities and projects integrating tools ranging from pencils
and paper to “weblogs” and “wikis”, even reluctant students can
become engaged and see themselves as readers and writers for the
first time. |
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Catching Readers Before They Fall: Supporting Readers Who Struggle, K-4. Pat Johnson & Katie Keier, $31.95
Essential reading for anyone and everyone who works with struggling readers, this book contains a wealth of strategies, resources, and teaching ideas. From word-solving and prompting methods, to modeling and teaching strategies, to practical answers for parents, Catching Readers provides a picture of what it both looks and sounds like to help a child who struggles. |
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Challenging the Gifted Child: an Open Approach to Working with Advanced Young Readers. Margaret Stevens, $22.95
Gifted children are quick on the uptake, can be frustrated by repetition and easily become impatient when unchallenged. Challenging the Gifted Child outlines a tried and tested approach for encouraging able children to focus their active minds in a productive way and discover the joy and value of reading. The book encourages the development of independent learning skills and will help parents and educators to create a personalized reading programme for a gifted child at home or small groups of children in school. |
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A Classroom Teacher’s Guide to Struggling Readers.
Curt Dudley-Marling & Patricia Paugh, $24.00
Curt Dudley-Marling and Patricia Paugh
provide quick, effective answers as they draw a roadmap that leads
you away from a deficit-based approach toward child-centered practices
that give you the time and space to meet every student’s needs. A Classroom Teacher's Guide to Struggling Readers is a
humane approach that values all children equally and builds on successes,
so that our most challenged readers get all the attention they need—and
deserve. |
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Classrooms That Work: They Can All Read and Write, 6th
Edition. Patricia Cunningham & Richard Allington, $65.75
Practical help for providing balanced, comprehensive
literacy instruction for all students, particularly those from culturally
diverse backgrounds and those who are struggling with reading and writing.
This popular resource provides comprehensive, balanced,
practical literacy instruction for all students in today’s increasingly diverse
classrooms, especially students from culturally diverse backgrounds and those
struggling with reading and writing. Classrooms That Work helps
educators meet the challenges by presenting lesson frameworks for providing
reading and language arts instruction that helps all children achieve their
highest literacy levels. In a clear, friendly writing style, the authors
emphasize the importance of promoting the integration of phonics and
literature-based process writing and reading instruction to enhance all
students’ learning and reading skills. |
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Developing Language and Literacy: Effective Intervention in the Early Years. Julia Carroll, Claudine Bowyer-Crane, Fiona Duff, Charles Hulme & Margaret Snowling, $59.95
Developing Language and Literacy describes successful intervention programmes to improve the phonological skills, vocabulary, and grammar of young children at risk of reading difficulties.
- Presents two structured intervention programmes to provide support for young children with language and literacy difficulties
- Describes clearly how to improve the language and foundation literacy skills of young children in the classroom
- Includes information about how to assess research, and how to monitor and design intervention strategies for use with individual children
- Helps teachers to develop an understanding of the intervention and research process as a whole
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Diagnosis
and Correction of Reading Problems. Darrell Morris, $29.50
In this highly informative text, Darrell
Morris demonstrates how to conduct a comprehensive diagnostic assessment;
interpret reading scores; and provide individualized instruction
that takes each student's specific strengths and weaknesses into
account. Case studies bring to life the book's one-to-one strategies
for struggling beginning readers, older remedial readers (second-
to sixth-grade reading levels), and those with severe reading disabilities.
Helpful appendices feature ready-to-use assessment tools, book lists,
and other reproducibles. |
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Differentiated Reading Instruction: Strategies for the
Primary Grades. Sharon Walpole & Michael McKenna, $28.95
(Grades K to 3)
All teachers recognize the importance
of matching literacy instruction to the ability level and needs
of each child - but how can this crucial goal actually be accomplished?
This indispensable book provides a research-based framework and
flexible, highly practical strategies for making differentiated
instruction work. |
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Differentiating Instruction with
Menus for the Inclusive Classroom: Language Arts, Grades 3-5. Laurie Westphal, $30.95
This book offers teachers everything
they need to create a student-centered learning environment based on choice. The
book provides numerous types of leveled menus that lower and on-level
elementary-aged students can use to demonstrate learning through a method of
their choice. Menus with similar formats but geared towards varying ability
levels allow teachers to differentiate easily. Using creative and challenging
choices found in these menus, students will look forward to sharing their
newfound knowledge throughout the year. Also included are specific guidelines
for products, rubrics for assessing student products, and teacher introduction
pages for each menu. |
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Drawing a Blank:
Improving Comprehension for Readers on the Autism Spectrum. Emily Iland, $45.95
Although they may be fluent readers — indeed, many have very precocious reading skills — individuals with autism spectrum disorders often need support for comprehension. Comprehension difficulties in readers with ASD can be subtle and difficult to tease out. As a result, their substantial level of risk for reading comprehension problems is often overlooked or unaddressed, and many students struggle in silence. This is where Drawing a Blank comes in. This practical and well-researched resource provides educational professionals and parents with the tools to improve comprehension for good decoders who have reading comprehension difficulties, as well as readers who struggle with both decoding and comprehension. In keeping with current standards, the book emphasizes the importance of using evidence-based and promising practices based on thorough assessment of students’ needs. |
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Early Intervention for Reading Difficulties: the Interactive Strategies Approach. Donna Scanlon, Kimberly Anderson & Joan Sweeney, $30.50
This book presents a research-supported framework for early literacy instruction that aligns with multi-tiered response-to-intervention (RTI) models. The book focuses on giving teachers a better understanding of literacy development and how to effectively support children as they begin to read and write. Detailed guidance is provided on ways to target these goals with K-2 students at risk for reading difficulties. Assessment and instructional strategies for whole-class, small-group, and one-to-one settings are discussed in depth.
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Effective Instruction for Middle
School Students with Reading Difficulties: the Reading Teacher’s Sourcebook. Carolyn Denton, et al, $53.50 (grades 6-8)
Resolve older students’ reading difficulties
and increase their chances for success with these evidence-based strategies,
and foundational knowledge for middle school reading and language arts
teachers. |
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Effective Instruction for Struggling Readers, K to 6.
Barbara Taylor, $31.95
Featuring today’s most respected leaders
in the field of reading interventions, this book examines what we
have learned from the research to help struggling readers in grades
K–6. Focusing on strategies that have been proven effective, the
authors will help educators meet the demands placed on them to ensure
that all students are making good progress toward becoming competent
readers. Each chapter begins with a set of framing questions and
ends with suggestions for action to foster discussion and help teachers
translate research-based ideas into practice—perfect for teacher
education courses and professional development workshops. |
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Empowering Struggling Readers: Practices for the Middle Grades. Leigh Hall, Leslie Burns & Elizabeth Carr Edwards, $38.95
This book provides classroom-tested methods for engaging struggling middle grade readers — even those who appear to have given up — and fostering their success. The emphasis is on constructing respectful, encouraging learning environments that incorporate students' diverse literacies, cultural interests, and prior knowledge and skills into instruction. Chapters outline effective, innovative strategies for instruction and assessment in comprehension, vocabulary, text-based discussion, critical reading, and other core areas. Realistic classroom examples are included throughout, including applications of nontraditional texts. |
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The
ESL/ELL Teacher's Book of Lists, 2nd Edition. Jacqueline
Kress, $35.95
This unique teacher time-saver includes
scores of helpful, practical lists that may be reproduced for
classroom use or referred to in the development of instructional
materials and lessons. The material contained in this book
helps K-12 teachers reinforce and enhance the learning of grammar,
vocabulary, pronunciation, and writing skills in ESL students
of all ability levels. For easy use and quick access, the lists
are printed in a format that can be photocopied. A complete,
thoroughly updated glossary at the end provides an indispensable
guide to the specialized language of ESL instruction. |
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Executive Skills and Reading Comprehension: a Guide
for Educators. Kelly Cartwright, $45.95
How do K-12 students become self-regulated learners who
actively deploy comprehension strategies to make meaning from texts? This
cutting-edge guide is the first book to highlight the importance of executive
skills for improving reading comprehension. Chapters review the research base
for particular executive functions — such as planning, organization, cognitive
flexibility, and impulse control — and present practical skills-building
strategies for the classroom. Detailed examples show what each skill looks like
in real readers, and sidebars draw explicit connections to the Common Core
State Standards (CCSS). |
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Extra Practice for Struggling Readers: High-Frequency Words, Grades 3-6. Linda Ward Beech, $16.99
Motivating practice packets that help intermediate students master 240 essential words they need to know to succeed in reading and writing.
Extra Practice for Struggling Readers: Phonics, Grades 3-6. Linda Ward Beech, $16.99
Motivating practice packets that help intermediate students build essential decoding skills.
Extra Practice for Struggling Readers: Word Study, Grades 3-6. Linda Ward Beech, $16.99
Motivating practice packets that help intermediate students learn key prefixes, suffixes and root words. |
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Finding
the Right Texts: What Works for Beginning and Struggling Readers.
Edited by E. Hiebert & M. Sailors, $32.95
Finding the Right Texts meets
an important need by reviewing the best available research on the
role of specific text features in supporting the development of
proficient reading. Also explored are ways that teacher scaffolding
can help students who have difficulties with particular aspects
or types of texts. The book considers approaches to adapting the
design and selection of texts to reinforce reading skills and provide
well-paced challenges for K-6 students at a variety of ability levels. |
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Helping Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder Express
their Thoughts and Knowledge in Writing: Tips and Exercises for Developing Writing Skills. Elise
Geither & Lisa Meeks, $33.95
When it comes to academic work, students with Autism
Spectrum Disorder (ASD) often have the required knowledge but struggle to get
their thoughts down in writing. This is a practical guide to teaching and
improving writing skills in students with ASD to meet academic writing
standards and prepare for the increased expectations of higher education.
The book covers key considerations for all educators
teaching writing skills to high school and college students with ASD including
how to address difficulties with comprehension, executive functioning, and
motor skills, how to structure ideas into a coherent argument, and how to
develop creativity and expression in writing, as well as how to successfully
adapt these skills to meet university expectations. Each chapter includes
teaching tips, insightful student perspectives, and ready-to-use writing
exercises. |
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How to Plan Differentiated Reading Instruction:
Resources for Grades K-3, 2nd Edition. Sharon Walpole & Michael
McKenna, $45.50
The authors provide a detailed framework for implementing
differentiated small-group instruction over multi-week cycles. Each component
of the beginning reading program is addressed—phonological awareness, word
recognition, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. In a large-size format
with lay-flat binding for easy photocopying, the book includes dozens of
reproducible lesson plans, instructional activities, assessment forms, and
other tools. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and
print the reproducible materials. New to This Edition:
- Differentiation 2.0: the approach has been fine-tuned based on
field testing, new research findings, and current standards and
response-to-intervention frameworks
- Many additional reproducible tools, such as coaching templates
and the Informal Decoding Inventory
- Beyond lesson plans and materials, the second edition offers more
guidance for designing instruction and grouping students, making it a one-stop
resource
- Reproducible tools now available to download and print
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How
to Reach and Teach All Children Through Balanced Literacy.
Sandra Rief & Julie Heimburge, $35.99 (Grades 3 to 8)
The balanced literacy method combines
the best practices of phonics and other skill-based language instruction
with the holistic, literature-based approach in order to help you
teach reading, writing, and speaking in a clear and approachable
format. |
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“I Hate To Write!” Cheryl
Boucher & Kathy Oehler, $34.50
Tips for helping students with autism spectrum and
related disorders increase achievement, meet academic standards, and become
happy, successful writers. |
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Instruction and Assessment for Struggling Writers: Evidence-Based Practices. Edited by Gary Troia, $33.50
This unique book focuses on how to provide effective instruction to K-12 students who find writing challenging, including English language learners and those with learning disabilities or language impairments. Prominent experts illuminate the nature of writing difficulties and offer practical suggestions for building students' skills at the word, sentence, and text levels. Topics include writing workshop instruction; strategies to support the writing process, motivation, and self-regulation; composing in the content areas; classroom technologies; spelling instruction for diverse learners; and assessment approaches. Every chapter is grounded in research and geared to the real world needs of teachers in general and special education settings. |
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Interventions
for Reading Success. Diane Haager, Joseph Dimino &
Michelle Windmueller, $61.95 (K to 3)
With an extensive menu of lessons that
take just 20–30 minutes, this intervention guide is the key to helping
students grasp the five ‘Big Ideas’ of early literacy: phonological
awareness, the alphabetic principle, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. All activities come complete with clear guidelines and suggestions
and are easy to tailor to students’ individual needs. Creative and
versatile, this curriculum supplement will help struggling students
become skillful, enthusiastic readers. |
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Jasmine Can: Creating Self-Confidence. Bena Hartman, Mary Gregg Byrne, $14.75
Raising her hand to read in front of the
class is something that Jasmine would never do. While other classmates breeze
through the pages of books, Jasmine finds it difficult to read. But with the
help of a special friend, Jasmine finds the confidence she needs to take a
chance. |
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Joyful
Reading: Differentiation and Enrichment for Successful Literacy
Learning. Sally Reis, $29.95
An easy-to-implement program that encourages all students to read
independently for a period of time during the school day on books
of their own choice while supporting them in learning comprehension
strategies. |
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A Land We Can Share: Teaching
Literacy to Students with Autism. Paula Kluth, & Kelly Chandler-Olcott,
$39.95
Teachers are going to love this book! Passionate
and practical, it moves beyond "sight words" and other
functional literacy skills and provides the know-how for bringing
quality, meaningful literacy instruction to students with autism.
The book focuses specifically on ways in which educators can improve
literacy outcomes for students with autism spectrum disorders in
Grades K–12 classrooms. |
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Lift-Off for Early Literacy: Directed
Reading Opportunities for Struggling Students. Charlene
Iannone-Campbell & Susan Lloyd Lattimore, $48.95
As early as preschool, children who
struggle with emergent literacy skills can benefit from effective response to
intervention. Don't wait until later grades when they've already fallen
behind—improve their literacy skills now with this evidence-based Tier 2 RTI
curriculum, ready for any pre-K educator to pick up and use right away.
Expertly organizing their lessons into one hands-on, step-by-step guide, the
authors give teachers, SLPs, and paraprofessionals eleven complete units of
small-group instruction.
Young children will love the engaging
activity sets, filled with songs, stories, fingerplay, rhymes, and games that
help increase their reading readiness while they have fun. And all adults
involved in pre-K instruction—from teachers to classroom volunteers—will love
how this curriculum helps them make the most of their classroom time and get
real, measurable results. With this highly effective, teacher-friendly
curriculum, pre-K educators will help struggling students achieve
"literacy lift-off" as early as possible so they're ready for
long-term reading success. |
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Literacy Beyond Picture Books: Teaching Secondary Students with Moderate to Severe Disabilities. Dorothy Deny Smith, Jill Fisher DeMarco & Martha Worley, $47.50
Teaching literacy to middle school and high school students with significant disabilities can prove challenging when available reading materials often don't match students' reading levels and interests. This accessible, step-by-step guide shows teachers how to match students with appropriate texts and develop inventive themed units that encourage literacy learning. Teachers can build whole units around a selected text and create hands-on activities that engage multiple senses. This valuable resource includes sample activities and lesson plans, ideas for adapting general education materials. |
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Literacy Growth for Every
Child: Differentiated Small Group Instruction K-6. Diane
Lapp, Douglas Fisher & Thomas DeVere Wolsey, $36.95
Implementing differentiated small group
instruction in K-6 classrooms — where students' abilities,
needs, and interests vary widely — is challenging yet extremely
important. This research based guide is packed with ideas about
how to structure literacy lessons that incorporate both collaborative
and needs-based small-group instruction in order to help all students
succeed. |
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Literacy
Instruction for English Language Learners Pre-K-2. Diane
Barone & Shelley Hong Xu, $29.50
Summarizing current research and weaving
it into practical instructional strategies that teachers can immediately
use with young English language learners (ELLs), covers all aspects
of effective instruction for ELLs: oral language development and
instruction, materials, word study, vocabulary, comprehension, writing,
home-school connections and assessment. The volume is packed with
realistic examples, lesson planning ideas, book lists, online resources,
and reproducibles. |
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Literacy Instruction for Inclusive
Classrooms. Paula Kluth & Kelly Chandler-Olcott,
$13.95 (Laminated Reference Guide)
This laminated reference guide provides
valuable information on how to enhance literacy instruction for all students
within inclusive classroom environments. Packed with practical strategies, this
guide addresses topics such as:
- Selecting formal literacy assessments
- Supporting family literacy
- Building a library in your diverse classroom
- Designing literacy stations for all students
- Involving collaborators in literacy instruction
- Making the most of peer support
- Adapting the read aloud
- Differentiating literature circles
- Developing reading fluency
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Literacy
Leadership to Support Reading Improvement: Intervention Programs and Balanced
Instruction. Mary Kay Moskal & Ayn Keneman,
$26.95
Packed with vivid examples from actual
schools, this book explores specific ways that literacy leaders can partner
with teachers to meet the instructional needs of every student. It provides a
range of research-based strategies for implementing effective instruction in a
response-to-intervention framework. It also describes innovative
interventions—including schoolwide programs and family and community
initiatives—that promote success for struggling readers. Practical ideas are
presented for engaging particular populations, such as boys and middle and high
school students, and for supporting teachers' professional development. |
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Make Writing Exciting, Grades 1-2. Kelly Gunzenhauser, $19.95
Motivating lessons, focused activities on specific skills and reproducible patterns to teach essential writing techniques. |
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Making Assessment Matter:
Using Test Results to Differentiate Reading Instruction. Nonie
Lesaux & Sky Marietta, $27.95
All too often, literacy assessments are
given only for accountability purposes and fail to be seen as valuable
resources for planning and differentiating instruction. This clear, concise
book shows K–5 educators how to implement a comprehensive, balanced assessment
battery that integrates accountability concerns with data-driven instruction.
Teachers learn to use different types of test scores to understand and address
students' specific learning needs. The book features an in-depth case example
of a diverse elementary school that serves many struggling readers and English
language learners. |
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Narrowing
the Literacy Gap: What Works in High-Poverty Schools. Diane
Barone, $31.95
This engaging book offers new insights
and information on why students in high-poverty schools struggle
with literacy achievement and what specific factors promote success.
Findings from a unique study are translated into clear recommendations
for enriching the classroom environment at different grade levels
and helping all children, including English language learners, become
highly skilled readers and writers. Packed with compelling observations
and data, the book illustrates the realities of day-to-day life
in the classroom, provides snapshots of exemplary instructional
practices, and emphasizes the key role of teacher-student interactions
in overcoming barriers to learning. |
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Next STEPS in Literacy Instruction: Connecting Assessments to Effective Interventions. Susan Smartt & Deborah Glaser, $45.95
This practical guide helps the educator do more with the valuable information gathered from literacy assessments. Next STEPS in Literacy Instruction takes the guesswork out of intervention and helps transform struggling students in to skillful readers. |
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Now We Get It! Boosting Comprehension
with Collaborative Strategic Reading, Grades 4-12. Janette
Klinger, Alison Boardman, Elizabeth Swanson & Sharon Vaughn, $35.95
Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) is
an innovative new approach to teaching reading that weaves together two
instructional programs: cooperative learning and reading comprehension strategy
instruction. In small groups, students work through the four main CSR steps
while helping each other improve comprehension and increase reading fluency. A
proven program for improving reading skills in mixed-ability classrooms, this
book offers a hands-on guide to implementing CSR in grades 4 through 12.
NOW WE GET IT includes sample dialogues
for teachers to use during instruction, ready-to-use activities, a wealth of
classroom-ready materials, and tips for training on CSR. Bonus web content
includes a PowerPoint presentation on CSR and short video clips. |
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One
Child at a Time: Making the Most of Your Time with Struggling Readers,
K–6. Pat Johnson, $24.95
This straightforward book offers a four-step
framework for working with struggling readers that will allow teachers
to focus on and analyze specific behaviours and needs, design targeted
instruction, and assess and refine teaching through conferences
with the child. Packed with examples of real student-teacher conferences,
the text also explores follow-up assessment and analysis over days
and weeks, tracking how and when skills are developing. The book
shows how to adapt its framework to use successfully with a range
of readers, including young children, English language learners,
and upper elementary students who are stalled in their literacy
progress. |
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Reaching
All By Creating Tribes Learning Communities: a New Way of Learning
and Being Together. Jeanne Gibbs, $57.95
Jeanne Gibbs’ perspective on human development is a systems
approach that encourages schools, families and communities to create
healthy environments in which children can grow and learn. Her
primary interest centers on the potential of cooperative learning
for the redesign of educational systems. Tribes explains how to
teach collaborative skills, design interactive learning experiences,
work with multiple learning styles, foster the development of resiliency,
and support school community change.
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Readers Front and Center: Helping All Students Engage
With Complex Text. Dorothy Barnhouse, $25.95
How can you ensure that students are fully entering, absorbing, and
experiencing the texts they read? Readers Front and Center answers
your comprehension questions by framing instruction that starts with the
student. Filled with examples of one-on-one conferences, small groups, and
whole-class scenarios, this essential book provides an accessible and inspiring
model of how and why we need to put students at the front and center of our
teaching. |
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Readers at Risk:
160 Activities to Develop Language Arts Skills in the Inclusive Classroom.
Jack Umstatter, $32.95 (Grades 9-12)
Readers
at Risk is designed to provide grade-level-appropriate material
for struggling special education students and for students who are
testing below their grade level. Many of the book's vocabulary building
activities are designed to build students' confidence and include
easy-to-identify answers in the form of questions or quotations. Readers at Risk focuses on nonfiction and testing prompts,
taught with engaging crossword puzzles and fun magic squares. It
makes the reading experience and word play more enjoyable for exceptional
students without creating more paperwork for teachers. |
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Reading Conversations:
Retrospective Miscue Analysis with Struggling Readers, Grades 4-12.
Rita Moore & Carol Gilles, $24.95
Miscue
analysis may be the single best tool for assessing readers' difficulties.
With Reading Conversations, you can take this tool to a new
level, moving beyond diagnosis and into developmental strategies
that involve not only teacher-student explorations of how students
make meaning with texts, but also peer-led discussions.
Grounded in scientific research, Reading
Conversations includes chapters on using RMA (retrospective miscue
analysis ) and CRMA (collaborative retrospective miscue analysis)
at the elementary, middle, and high-school levels, reproducible self-assessment
and teacher-assessment forms, and testimonials and vignettes from
teachers who have successfully adopted RMA and CRMA in their classrooms. |
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Reading Development and Difficulties. Kate Cain, $45.95
Reading Development and Difficulties is a comprehensive and balanced introduction to the development of the two core aspects of reading: good word reading skills and the ability to extract the overall meaning of a text. Unique in its balanced coverage of both word reading and reading comprehension development, this book is an essential resource for comprehending literacy acquisition. |
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Reading
Strategies for Elementary Students with Learning Difficulties: Strategies
for RTI. William Bender &
Martha Larkin, $71.95
This one-stop resource provides teachers
with a ready reference of interventions to provide targeted
reading instruction for students with learning difficulties. |
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Ready to Read: a Multisensory Approach to Language-Based Comprehension Instruction. Mary Lupiani Farrell & Francie Matthews, $27.50
Comprehension is the ultimate goal of reading: it makes learning possible and determines students' long-term success across all academic subjects. This book provides guidelines for basing comprehension instruction on students' language ability and to use the popular multisensory teaching approach to help educators teach comprehension skills in ways that complement each child's learning styles.
The book follows case histories of three students with different learning challenges and shows teachers how to adapt instruction to meet diverse needs. Educators will also get helpful recommendations for conducting formal and informal assessment of student progress in each skill area. A straightforward, reader-friendly guide to teaching comprehension, this book prepares teachers for one of their most important tasks — helping all their students make the critical leap from "learning to read" to "reading to learn." |
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Recipe for Reading: Intervention
Strategies for Struggling Readers. Frances Bloom
& Nina Traub, $42.50
This revised manual by Frances Bloom and
Nina Traub contains comprehensive, multisensory, phonics-based reading program
presents a skill sequence and lesson structure designed for beginning, at-risk,
or struggling readers. Recipe for Reading can be used as the primary,
beginning reading program for Tier 1 students, or can be a successful
intervention for students in Tiers 2 and 3 who have not been successful with
other reading strategies. |
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RTI from All Sides: What Every
Teacher Needs to Know. Mary Howard, $23.25
RTI from All Sides points
the way toward thoughtful and effective Response to Intervention
(RTI)—and away from rigid
implementations. Author Mary Howard offers suggestions for instructional
design, collaboration, and troubleshooting—even for avoiding
mediocre RTI products. The book demonstrates how to apply the principles
you trust to RTI:
- Teaching reading and writing in authentic ways to help students
choose just-right books that set them up to read in and out of
school
- Using simple, ongoing assessments to know when to intensify
instruction inside and outside the regular classroom
- Differentiating reading instruction
to maintain the flow between whole-class, small-group, and
one-on-one instruction while meeting specific students’ needs
- Designing interventions to amplify instruction instead of sidelining
students to skill-and-drill that takes them further from engaged,
proficient reading
- Coordinating efforts within and between instructional supports
to emphasize acceleration through the targeted instruction students
need to succeed.
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School Success for Kids with Dyslexia
& Other Reading Difficulties. Walter Dunson,
$19.95
SCHOOL SUCCESS FOR KIDS WITH DYSLEXIA
provides parents and teachers with goals that will meet the needs of students
who are struggling with reading. It includes information, assessments, and
techniques that parents, teachers, and school administrators can use
immediately to foster reading success. Through an understanding of how English
words are constructed, how the brain processes language, and the differences
that exist between learning styles, parents and teachers will gain keen insight
into the processes of reading, reading acquisition, and reading instruction. |
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Strategies and Lessons for Improving
Basic Early Literacy Skills. Bob Algozzine, Mary
Beth Marr, Tina McClanahan & Emme Barnes, $17.95 (K-3)
Addressing the needs of a diverse
classroom, this book offers assessment guidelines and tools that inform
instruction and help adjust teaching to support individual needs. The
activities are designed to build proficiency in four key areas:
- Recognizing and naming letters
- Hearing and manipulating sounds in words
- Associating sounds with letters and using them
to form words
- Reading words in connected text
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The Struggling Writer, Grades 3-6. Janet Angelillo, $22.95
Strategies to help kids focus, build stamina and develop writing confidence. |
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Taking On a Learning Disability: at
the Crossroads of Special Education and Adolescent Literacy Learning. Erin McCloskey, $50.95
In the United States, approximately 2.5
million students are diagnosed as having a learning disability and the majority
of those children are placed in special education because of an inability to
read as expected. As a result of this diagnosis, these children may be placed
in special education classrooms — classrooms that are separate from the
‘mainstream’ population. For children with learning disabilities, there is
likely no place, other than in school, where a student’s inability to read as
expected leads to this separation from his/her peers. Once school is over,
these children play alongside the kids in their neighborhoods, participate in
sports teams, and attend community activities. This book looks at the impact of
being labeled as learning disabled and separated from peers in school through
the eyes of Samson, a middle school student described both as learning disabled
and a non-reader. This qualitative case study explores how Samson, his family,
his teachers and this researcher make sense of special education and the
complexities of learning to read as an adolescent.
Through the three years that Samson was in middle school, this book
investigates his perspective on his classes, his interpretation of what it
means to ‘be’ a student in special education, and the process by which he
learns to read. How disability gets created, contested, and discussed is
highlighted through the many contexts that allow disability to be recognized
and to fade into the background. |
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Teaching
Adolescents Who Struggle with Reading: Practical Strategies.
David Moore & Kathleen Hinchman, $35.95
Teaching Adolescents Who Struggle
with Reading presents practical classroom strategies for teaching
middle and high school students who struggle as readers and writers. |
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Teaching Reading Comprehension. Alison Davis, $59.99 (Grades 3 to 8)
Teaching Reading Comprehension brings together a metacognitive approach with the principles of formative assessment to show how the decisions a teacher makes affect student achievement. Educators working in grades 3-8 will find practical information on all aspects of teaching reading comprehension. |
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Teaching Reading Comprehension to Students with
Learning Difficulties, 2nd Edition. Janette Klinger, Sharon Vaughn &
Alison Boardman, $40.50
This practitioner resource and course text has given thousands
of K-12 teachers evidence-based tools for helping students — particularly those
at risk for reading difficulties — understand and acquire new knowledge from
text. The authors present a range of scientifically validated instructional
techniques and activities, complete with helpful classroom examples and sample
lessons. The book describes ways to assess comprehension, build the skills that
good readers rely on, and teach students to use multiple comprehension
strategies flexibly and effectively. Each chapter features thought-provoking
discussion questions. Reproducible lesson plans and graphic
organizers can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8½" x 11"
size. New to This Edition:
- Chapters on content-area literacy, English language learners, and
intensive interventions
- Incorporates current research on each component of reading
comprehension
- Discusses ways to align instruction with the Common Core State
Standards
- Additional instructional activities throughout
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Teaching Struggling Readers with Poetry, Grades 1-3. Maria Walther & Carol Fuhler, $26.99
Engaging poems with mini-lessons that target and teach phonics, sight words, fluency and more – laying the foundation for reading success. |
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Teaching Struggling Readers to Tackle
Math Word Problems, Grades 3-5. Audrey
Trapolsi, et al, $12.99
Effective strategies and practice pages
that help kids develop the skills they need to read and solve math word
problems. |
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Teaching Tips for Kids with Dyslexia. Sherrill Flora, $21.50
This teacher/parent resource has a wealth of practical ideas and teaching strategies that can help children with dyslexia and other reading disabilities become successful readers. |
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Teaching Word Recognition: Effective Strategies for
Students with Learning Difficulties, 2nd Edition. Rollanda O'Connor, $35.50
This highly regarded teacher resource synthesizes the
research base on word recognition and translates it into step-by-step
instructional strategies, with special attention to students who are
struggling. Chapters follow the stages through which students progress as they
work toward skilled reading of words. Presented are practical, evidence-based
techniques and activities that target letter-sound pairings, decoding and
blending, sight words, multisyllabic words, and fluency. Ideal for use in
primary-grade classrooms, the book also offers specific guidance for working
with older children who are having difficulties. New to this edition:
- Incorporates the latest research on word recognition and its
connections to vocabulary, reading fluency, and comprehension
- Chapter on morphological (meaning-based) instruction
- Chapter on English language learners
- Instructive "Try This" activities at the end of each
chapter for teacher study groups and professional development
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Teaching Writing: Differentiated
Instruction with Leveled Graphic Organizers, Grades 1-3.
Nancy Witherell & Mary McMackin, $21.99
Fifteen complete writing lessons, including a model lesson, literature
links and reproducible organizers designed to support individual
learning needs. |
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Teaching
Writing in the Inclusive Classroom: Strategies and Skills for All
Students, Grades 6 – 12. Roger Passman & Katherine
McKnight, $35.99
Filled with fifty engaging activities,
this hands-on resource is an important and valuable tool that can
supplement any teacher's approach to writing instruction. Teaching
Writing in the Inclusive Classroom offers strategies based
on the proven TIP Writing Process that is designed to individualize
the writing process by focusing on the specific needs of each student
within the classroom. |
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Teaching Writing in Mixed-Language
Classrooms, Grades K-5. Joanne Yatvin, $24.99
Powerful writing strategies to help all students develop the
skills they need to write with confidence. |
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Teaching
Writing to Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic Learners.
Donovan R. Walling, $37.95
Are your picture-smart, music-smart,
and body-smart learners lagging behind their word-smart and number-smart
peers? Donovan Walling offers innovative new ways to help these
learners become effective writers! With an emphasis on matching
teaching method to learning style and developing both basic writing
competencies and higher-level thinking skills, this resource
offers instructional strategies, sample lessons, a learning styles
self-assessment. This is an essential resource for teachers,
literacy coaches, and curriculum designers who want to expand
writing curriculum and incorporate more non-linear methods into
their instructional repertoires. |
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25 Essential Language Arts Strategies
to Help Striving Readers Succeed. Michael Opitz
& Roland Schendel, $21.99
Strategies to engage your striving and
uncertain readers and to provide the thoughtful scaffolding they need to
achieve reading proficiency.
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What Really Matters for Struggling Readers: Designing Research-Based Programs, 3rd Edition. Richard Allington, $50.65
What Really Matters for Struggling Readers delivers a concise and balanced introduction to reading remediation and intervention programs and the topic of struggling readers. This revised edition continues to focus on helping teachers design reading remediation and intervention programs around well-established reality and research-based components. |
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The Word
Book: Learning Words through Meaningful Connections. Elisabeth Wiig, Evelyn Freedman &
Linda Schreiber, $69.00
THE WORD BOOK helps you plan and
implement lessons on vocabulary content that support special education students
in general education classes. It categorizes 12,500 high frequency words in
easy-to-read charts. These charts are organized by subject and typically list
related nouns, adjectives, and verbs in adjacent columns. This format helps
students understand how different words are commonly used together. |
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The
Words Came Down! English Language Learners Read, Write and Talk
Across the Curriculum. Emelie Parker & Tess Pardini,
$27.95
This timely guide emphasizes a workshop structure for literacy studies
that allows teachers to differentiate instruction to include all
students, and affords students ample opportunity to collaborate
with others as they learn to speak, read, writer, and comprehend.
The book emphasizes oral language and communication as critical
to successful teaching and learning. |
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Writing
Assessment and Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities,
Grades K-12. Nancy Mather,
Barbara Wendling & Rhia Roberts, $41.95
Research-based, classroom-tested
strategies to help students of all ability levels improve writing
skills. Includes 100+ student writing samples with guidelines
for analysis. |
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Autism and Reading Comprehension: Ready-to-Use Lesson Plans
for Teachers. Joseph Porter, $40.95
Balancing Reading and Language Learning: a Resource for Teaching English Language Learners K-5. Mary
Cappellini, $44.95
Becoming a Great Teacher of Reading: Achieving High Rapid Reading Gains with Powerful, Differentiated
Strategies. Marie Carbo, $51.95
The Big Book of Differentiated Reading Response
Activities, Grades 2-3. Rhonda Graff, $18.99
Book Buddies: a Tutoring Framework for Struggling Readers, 2nd Edition. Francine Johnston, et al,
$42.50 Grades K-3
Brain, Behavior and Learning in Language and Reading Disorders. Maria Mody & Elaine Silliman, $53.50
Bringing The Outside In: Visual Ways To Engage Reluctant
Readers. Sara Kajder, $27.95
Catching Readers Before They Fall: Supporting Readers Who Struggle, K-4. Pat Johnson & Katie Keier, $31.95
Challenging the Gifted Child: an Open Approach to Working with Advanced Young Readers. Margaret
Stevens, $22.95
A Classroom Teacher’s Guide to Struggling Readers. Curt Dudley-Marling & Patricia Paugh, $24.00
Classrooms That Work: They Can All Read and Write, 6th
Edition. Patricia Cunningham & Richard Allington, $65.75
Developing Language and Literacy: Effective Intervention in the Early Years. Julia Carroll, Claudine Bowyer-Crane, Fiona Duff, Charles Hulme & Margaret Snowling, $59.95
Diagnosis and Correction of Reading Problems. Darrell Morris, $29.50
Differentiated Learning: Language and Literacy Projects that Address Diverse Backgrounds and Cultures.
Kathy Paterson, $24.95
Differentiated Reading Instruction: Strategies for the Primary Grades. Sharon Walpole & Michael
McKenna, $28.95 (Grades K to 3)
Differentiated Small-Group Reading Lessons, K-3. Margo Southall, $26.99
Differentiating Instruction with
Menus for the Inclusive Classroom: Language Arts, Grades 3-5. Laurie Westphal, $30.95
Drawing a Blank: Improving Comprehension for Readers on
the Autism Spectrum. Emily Iland, $45.95
Early Intervention for Reading Difficulties: the Interactive Strategies Approach. Donna Scanlon, Kimberly Anderson & Joan Sweeney, $30.50
Effective Instruction for Middle
School Students with Reading Difficulties: the Reading Teacher’s Sourcebook. Carolyn Denton, et al, $53.50 (grades 6-8)
Effective Instruction for Struggling Readers, K to 6. Barbara Taylor, $31.95
Empowering Struggling Readers: Practices for the Middle Grades. Leigh Hall, Leslie Burns & Elizabeth Carr Edwards, $38.95
The ESL/ELL Teacher's Book of Lists, 2nd Edition. Jacqueline Kress, $35.95
Executive Skills and Reading Comprehension: a Guide
for Educators. Kelly Cartwright, $45.95
Finding the Right Texts: What Works for Beginning and Struggling Readers. Edited by E. Hiebert & M.
Sailors, $32.95
Helping Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder Express
their Thoughts and Knowledge in Writing: Tips and Exercises for Developing Writing Skills. Elise
Geither & Lisa Meeks, $33.95
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How to Plan Differentiated Reading Instruction:
Resources for Grades K-3, 2nd Edition. Sharon Walpole & Michael
McKenna, $45.50
How to Reach and Teach All Children through Balanced Literacy. Sandra Rief & Julie Heimburge, $35.99
(Grades 3 to 8)
“I Hate To Write!” Cheryl
Boucher & Kathy Oehler, $34.50
Instruction and Assessment for Struggling Writers: Evidence-Based Practices. Edited by Gary Troia, $33.50
Interventions for Reading Problems: Designing and Evaluating Effective Strategies. Edward Dalyl, $39.50
Interventions for Reading Success. D. Haager, J. Dimino & M. Windmueller, $61.95 (K to 3)
Jasmine Can: Creating Self-Confidence. Bena Hartman, Mary Gregg Byrne, $14.75
Joyful Reading: Differentiation and Enrichment for Successful Literacy Learning. Sally Reis, $29.95
A Land We Can Share: Teaching Literacy to Students with
Autism. Paula Kluth, & Kelly Chandler-Olcott, $39.95
Lift-Off for Early Literacy: Directed
Reading Opportunities for Struggling Students. Charlene
Iannone-Campbell & Susan Lloyd Lattimore, $48.95
Literacy Beyond Picture Books: Teaching Secondary Students with Moderate to Severe Disabilities. Dorothy Deny Smith, Jill Fisher DeMarco & Martha Worley, $47.50
Literacy Growth for Every Child: Differentiated Small Group Instruction K-6. Diane Lapp, Douglas Fisher & Thomas DeVere Wolsey, $36.95
Literacy Instruction for English Language Learners Pre-K-2. Diane Barone & Shelley Hong Xu, $29.50
Literacy Instruction for Inclusive
Classrooms. Paula Kluth & Kelly Chandler-Olcott,
$13.95 (Laminated Reference Guide)
Literacy
Leadership to Support Reading Improvement: Intervention Programs and Balanced
Instruction. Mary Kay Moskal & Ayn Keneman,
$26.95
Make Writing Exciting, Grades 1-2. Kelly Gunzenhauser, $19.95
Making Assessment Matter: Using Test Results to Differentiate
Reading Instruction. Nonie Lesaux & Sky Marietta, $27.95
Narrowing the Literacy Gap: What Works in High-Poverty Schools. Diane Barone, $31.95
Next STEPS in Literacy Instruction: Connecting Assessments to Effective Interventions. Susan Smartt& Deborah Glaser, $45.95
Now We Get It! Boosting Comprehension
with Collaborative Strategic Reading, Grades 4-12. Janette
Klinger, Alison Boardman, Elizabeth Swanson & Sharon Vaughn, $35.95
One Child at a Time: Making the Most of Your Time with Struggling Readers, K–6. Pat Johnson, $24.95
Quality Literacy Instruction for Students with Autism Spectrum
Disorders. Christina Carnahan & Pamela Williamson, Editors, $74.95
Reaching All By Creating Tribes Learning Communities: a New Way of Learning and Being Together.
Jeanne Gibbs, $57.95
Readers Front and Center: Helping All Students Engage
With Complex Text. Dorothy Barnhouse, $25.95
Readers at Risk: 160 Activities to Develop Language Arts
Skills in the Inclusive Classroom. Jack Umstatter, $32.95 (Grades 9-12)
Reading Conversations: Retrospective Miscue Analysis with Struggling Readers, Grades 4-12. Rita Moore & Carol Gilles, $24.95
Reading Development and Difficulties. Kate Cain, $45.95
Reading Skills Problem Solver: Ready-to-Use Strategies & Activity Sheets for Correcting All Types of
Reading Problems. Wilma Miller, $49.50
Reading Strategies for Elementary Students with Learning Difficulties: Strategies for RTI. William Bender & Martha Larkin, $71.95
The Reading Turn-Around: a Five-Part Framework for Differentiated Instruction. Stephanie Jones, Lane
Clarke, Grace Enriquez, $27.95
Ready to Read: a Multisensory Approach to Language-Based Comprehension Instruction. Mary Lupiani Farrell & Francie Matthews, $27.50
Recipe for Reading: Intervention
Strategies for Struggling Readers. Frances Bloom
& Nina Traub, $42.50
RTI from All Sides: What Every Teacher Needs to Know. Mary Howard, $23.25
School Success for Kids with Dyslexia
& Other Reading Difficulties. Walter Dunson,
$19.95
Strategies and Lessons for Improving
Basic Early Literacy Skills. Bob Algozzine, Mary
Beth Marr, Tina McClanahan & Emme Barnes, $17.95 (K-3)
The Struggling Writer, Grades 3-6. Janet Angelillo, $22.95
Taking On a Learning Disability: at
the Crossroads of Special Education and Adolescent Literacy Learning. Erin McCloskey, $50.95
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Teaching Adolescents Who Struggle with Reading: Practical
Strategies. David Moore & Kathleen Hinchman, $35.95
Teaching Reading Comprehension. Alison Davis, $59.99 (Grades
3 to 8)
Teaching Reading Comprehension to Students with
Learning Difficulties, 2nd Edition. Janette Klinger, Sharon Vaughn &
Alison Boardman, $40.50
Teaching Reading: Differentiated Instruction with Leveled Graphic Organizers, Grades 1-3. Nancy Witherell & Mary McMackin, $18.99
Teaching Reading to Struggling Learners. Esther Minskoff, $34.50
Teaching Struggling Readers with Poetry, Grades 1-3. Maria Walther & Carol Fuhler, $26.99
Teaching Struggling Readers to Tackle
Math Word Problems, Grades 3-5. Audrey
Trapolsi, et al, $12.99
Teaching Tips for Kids with Dyslexia. Sherrill Flora, $21.50
Teaching Vocabulary: Differentiated Instruction with Leveled Graphic Organizers, Grades 1-3. Nancy
Witherell & Mary McMackin, $18.99
Teaching Word Recognition: Effective Strategies for
Students with Learning Difficulties, 2nd Edition. Rollanda O'Connor, $35.50
Teaching Writing: Differentiated Instruction with Leveled Graphic Organizers, Grades 1-3. Nancy
Witherell & Mary McMackin, $21.99
Teaching Writing in the Inclusive Classroom: Strategies and Skills for All Students, Grades 6 – 12. Roger
Passman & Katherine McKnight, $35.99
Teaching Writing in Mixed-Language Classrooms, Grades K-5. Joanne Yatvin, $24.99
Teaching Writing to Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic Learners. Donovan R. Walling, $37.95
25 Essential Language Arts Strategies
to Help Striving Readers Succeed. Michael Opitz
& Roland Schendel, $21.99
What Really Matters for Struggling Readers: Designing Research-Based Programs, 3rd Edition. Richard Allington, $50.65
The Word
Book: Learning Words through Meaningful Connections. Elisabeth Wiig, Evelyn Freedman &
Linda Schreiber, $69.00
The Words Came Down! English Language Learners Read, Write, and Talk Across the Curriculum. Emelie
Parker & Tess Pardini, $27.95
Writing Assessment and Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities, Grades K-12. Nancy Mather,
Barbara Wendling & Rhia Roberts, $41.95
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