Full Description
Strengthen student literacy achievement in middle and high schools! In response to the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), raising literacy levels in secondary schools has taken on a new urgency. Recognized literacy author, Elaine K. McEwan, focuses her revised second edition on enhancing the "five big ideas" for raising reading achievement with seven cognitive strategies of highly effective readers and more than twenty research-based "teaching for learning" tips to infuse into daily content instruction.
Featuring reflection and discussion questions for reinforcement, this indispensable guide demonstrates how to improve students' literacy with these five teacher-friendly strategies:
Focus on changing what you can change
Teach the students who can't read how to read
Teach every student how to read to learn
Motivate all students to read more, to read increasingly more challenging books, and to be accountable for what they read
Create a reading culture in your school
With new programs designed for adolescent learners, this update provides suggestions and developmental tools to effectively strengthen reading curriculum and instruction. Reading specialists, special education teachers, literacy coaches, intervention specialists, and central office administrators can also use this essential tool for evaluating middle and high school reading programs and formulating school and district improvement goals.
Contents
List of Teaching for Learning Tips
Preface
A Change in Focus
The Goals of This Book
Who This Book Is For
What This Book Is Not
Overview of the Contents
A New Feature
The Challenge
Acknowledgments
About the Author
1. Reading Achievement: Where Do We Stand?
Raising Achievement Expectations
The State of Reading Achievement in the Nation
The Response of Educators
The State of Reading Achievement in the States
Roadblocks to Raising Achievement in Middle and High Schools
The Responsibility of School Leaders
Reflection and Discussion Questions
2. Focus on Changing What You Can Change
Change the Educational Paradigm
Change How Goals Are Set
Change How Teachers Teach
Change the Curriculum and How It Is Chosen
Change the Alignment of the Curriculum
Change the Amount of Time Allocated to Reading Instruction
Change Where Strategic Reading Instruction Is Provided
Change How Learning Is Assessed
Change Expectations for Students
Change How Professional Development Is Provided
Reflection and Discussion Questions
3. Teach the Students Who Can't Read How to Read
How Children Learn to Read: A Short Lesson
Failing to Learn
Programs to Remediate Struggling Secondary Students
Find the Students in Special Education Who Can't Read and Teach Them to Read
Reflection and Discussion Questions
4. Teach Every Student How to Read to Learn
Reading to Learn and Cognitive Strategies
The Strategic Teacher
How to Teach Cognitive Strategies
Reading to Learn and Vocabulary Development
Reading to Learn and Knowledge Acquisition
How We Can Engage More Students in Reading to Learn
Cognitive Strategy Instruction at Alief Hastings High School
Reflection and Discussion Questions
5. Motivate Every Student to Read in the Zone
The Value of Reading a Lot
Reading in the Zone
The Importance of Reading Challenging Fiction and Nonfiction
The Importance of Accountability
Motivating Students to Read a Lot
Engaging Students in Reading
Skills to Read With Confidence and Success
Reflection and Discussion Questions
6. Create a Reading Culture in Your School
Pay Attention to the Basic Beliefs and Core Values of Stakeholders
Determine What Needs to Be Changed
Identify the Roadblocks to Change
Hire a Strong (Assertive) Instructional Leader
Hold Everyone Accountable
Make a Plan
Don't Forget the Parents and Kids
Assess for Learning
Press Academically and Be Instructionally Tenacious
Getting the Job Done at Griffin Middle School
Reflection and Discussion Questions
Resource A. Assessment Tools
Resource A.1: Prereading Assessment Form
Resource A.2: Prereading Assessment Key
Resource A.3: Postreading Assessment Form
Resource A.4: Postreading Assessment Key
Resource B. Programs for Learning to Read in Secondary School
Benchmark Program
Corrective Reading
Higher-Order Thinking Skills (HOTS)
Language!®
Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes
Reading Is FAME
Reasoning and Writing
REWARDS (Reading Excellence: Word Attack and Rate Development Strategies)
The Spalding Method
Spelling Through Morphographs
Resource C. Creating a Strong Reading Culture: A Process Exercise
Description
Application
Time Required
Materials
Administration Directions
References
Index
