Description
Increase understanding of content by strengthening every learner’s reading skills!
Featuring new strategies, updated research, expanded coverage of key topics, plus new material on English language learners, this revised edition offers substantive methods for increasing content learning by helping students become better readers. The authors explain how differentiated instruction, multiple intelligences, scaffolding, and other techniques can support reading comprehension, and help teachers:
- Create the right reading environment
- Assess readers effectively
- Incorporate guided reading, shared reading, the four-block model, language experience, and read-alouds
- Teach vocabulary using methods such as visuals, context clues, and miscue analysis
- Improve comprehension before, during, and after reading
Table of Contents
About the Authors
1. Introduction
Infusing Reading in the Content Areas
Sailing Into Differentiated Reading Instruction
The Goals of This Book
Effective Practices and Related Research
Differentiation
The Reading Journey
Summary
2. Create a Climate to Motivate Readers
Designing the Physical Environment
The Affective Environment
Motivation
Attention, Challenge, Excitement, Humor
Self-Efficacy
Celebrate Reading Achievements
Metacognition
Flow
3. Knowing and Assessing the Reader
Developmental Readiness for Reading
Meet Your Reading Characters
Non-Reading Nancy
Word-Calling Wayne
Insecure Inez
Turned Off Tom
Correcting Carl
Read Aloud Renee
Silent Reading Sam
Comprehending Carlos
Developing the Eager, Fluent Reader
The Keys to Reading Success
Assessing and Diagnosing the Reader
Cloze Process
Using Assessments Effectively
Summary
4. Differentiated Models and Strategies of Reading
Adjustable Assignment Model
Curriculum Compacting Model
Centers and Projects Model
Project-Based Models
Problem-Solving Model
Independent Choice Reading Model
Guided Reading Model
Language Experience Model
Shared Reading Model
Read Aloud Model
The Four Block Model
From Models to Implementation
Agenda/Menus
Cubing
Choice
Summary
5. Vocabulary
25 Ways to Teach Vocabulary
Vocabulary Visuals
Cues to Context Clues
Subject Terminology
Overcoming Miscues
Summary
6. The Art of Decoding
Phonics Instruction
The Phonics Dozen (The Fonix Duzen!)
Words
Structural Analysis
Summary
7. Comprehension
Barriers to Comprehension
Levels of Comprehension
Steps to Reading a Passage
Before Reading: The Passage Preview
During Reading: The Passage View
Assessing Comprehension
The Teacher's Role in Comprehension Instruction
Summary
8. Planning
Using Strategies Effectively
Text Check
Conclusion
Differentiated Instruction Is Like a Sailboat Race
References
Index
