Incorporate a multi-tiered approach to literacy instruction using a culturally responsive approach! Literacy experts, Robin Wisniewski, Gay Fawcett, Nancy Padak, and Timothy Rasinski, explore the major components essential to creating an effective literacy program that supports all students. The authors present teachers with easy-to-implement instructional strategies and research-based practices to assess students' cultures and reading skills, as well as teachers' instruction and diversity readiness. In particular, the authors focus on identifying effective elements of instruction and offer suggestions for instructional modifications in the classroom. The series, Evidence-Based Instruction in Reading, is a professional development program designed to help teachers meet the literacy instruction guidelines as identified by the National Reading Panel (2000). Each of the books in the series focuses on one key component: learners with special needs, phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension and offers recommendations for incorporating appropriate reading materials, fostering productive home-school connections, and promoting a desire for students to learn to read and write throughout the five part series. This coverage makes this series the perfect professional development resource for teachers in the elementary classroom!

Evidence-Based Instruction in Reading: A Professional Development Guide to Culturally Responsive Instruction (Rasinski Series)

Education & Teaching

Timothy V. Rasinski

Gay Fawcett

Robin Wisniewski

Nancy D. Padak

Schools & Teaching

Pearson

Incorporate a multi-tiered approach to literacy instruction and increase your students strategic thinking in reading and writing! Literacy experts, Robin Wisniewski, Nancy Padak, and Timothy Rasinski, explore the major components essential to creating an effective literacy program that supports all students. The authors present teachers with friendly tips and research-based strategies for implementing a Response to Intervention framework in their own schools and provide guidance on how to make instructional decisions for students who have fallen behind in reading. In particular, the authors focus on identifying effective elements of instruction and offer suggestions for instructional modifications in the classroom.

Evidence-Based Instruction in Reading: A Professional Development Guide to Response to Intervention (Rasinski Series)

Leveled passages with ready-to-use assessment pages help teachers quickly screen students for reading problems, such as low word recognition, poor fluency rate, and inadequate comprehension. Rubrics and grade-level norms make interpreting the data simple and easy, and record-keeping forms allow teachers to document and monitor student performance all year long. Meets Reading First guidelines.

3-Minute Reading Assessments: Word Recognition, Fluency, and Comprehension: Grades 1-4 (Three-minute Reading Assessments)

Nancy Padak

Children's Books

Teaching Resources

Leveled passages with ready-to-use assessment pages help teachers quickly screen students for reading problems, such as low word recognition, poor fluency rate, and inadequate comprehension. Rubrics and grade-level norms make interpreting the data simple and easy, and record-keeping forms allow teachers to document and monitor student performance all year long. Meets Reading First guidelines. For use with Grades 5-8.

3-Minute Reading Assessments: Word Recognition, Fluency, and Comprehension: Grades 5-8

Education & Reference

Scholastic Professional

Reading experts, Tim Rasinski and Nancy Padak, developed powerful assessments that help you accurately identify students' potential reading problems in just three minutes. This exciting new DVD lets you observe teachers as they assess students in word recognition, comprehension, fluency, and vocabulary. These quick assessments make it easy to pinpoint students' strengths and target areas in which they need more support.

3-Minute Reading Assessments: A Professional Development DVD and Study Guide

Literature & Fiction

Scholastic Teaching Resources

Good-bye Round Robin offers numerous practical suggestions for engaging English language learners in meaningful oral-language activities, all connected to wonderful, recently-published books for students of different ages and reading abilities. Opitz' book provides specific strategies teachers can use to help their ELLs develop both oral and written English proficiency. This book is an excellent resource for any teacher, but it is an especially useful resource for teachers of English language learners.  - Yvonne and David Freeman Authors of Essential Linguistics and Teaching Reading in Multilingual Classrooms   Oral reading can increase the comprehension, fluency, and strategic thinking of every reader - if you have the right strategies. Good-bye Round Robin, Updated Edition, gives you the 25 best ways to turn oral reading into one of your most effective literacy tools.   Good-bye Round Robin, Updated Edition, makes it easy to work the right amount and the right types of oral reading into your teaching. Michael Opitz and Timothy Rasinski present proven oral-reading strategies, every one of which fits easily into your existing literacy block routines.   And this Updated Edition goes further than ever to help you get the most from every oral-reading opportunity. It's newly designed to help you match readers to instruction more quickly and confidently. Opitz and Rasinski have revised and expanded their booklists to include over 300 new children's literature titles, enabling you to choose the best book for your lessons and your readers. What's more they offer classroom-tested ways to use oral reading to support struggling readers and English learners at all stages of language acquisition.   Use Good-bye Round Robin, Updated Edition, and make the most of oral reading.

Good-Bye Round Robin : 25 Oral Reading Strategies

Michael F. Opitz

Bt Bound

Keep your students literacy strong across the learning seasons of the school year. This book s core is literacy strategy lessons that spiral across the year, focused on reaching various learning styles in today s diverse classrooms. Each lesson provides key academic vocabulary; steps to prepare, initiate, and demonstrate the strategy; tips for adaptation; and evaluation tools.

Literacy Strong All Year Long: Powerful Lessons for K¬2

Valerie Ellery

Lori Oczkus

International Literacy Association

What does it mean to be a fluent reader? How are reading fluency and comprehension connected? What strategies can you use to help students become more fluent? How can you measure fluency?

Essential Readings on Fluency

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Intl Literacy Assn

Artfully Teaching the Science of Reading

Chase Young

David Paige

Routledge

Fluency expert Timothy V. Rasinski teams up with Melissa Cheesman Smith, a veteran fifth grade teacher, to help teachers effectively weave fluency work into their daily reading instruction. The book is packed with engaging text and tools, an assessment scale, and high quality ready-to-use lessons including text phrasing and tonality, echo reading, word ladders, and more! Given the importance of fluency and its pivotal relationship to comprehension and word recognition the potential is high for improving students overall reading achievement, and their performance in other content areas.

The Megabook of Fluency

Melissa Cheesman Smith

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