Synopses & Reviews
For secondary reading specialists and English teachers, this practical resource provides over 200 ready-to-reproduce lessons and exercises to teach and reinforce basic reading skills with students of all abilities. Each lesson includes an Instructor's Page with background information and teaching suggestions followed by one or more Student Skill sheets designed for sequential development of skills that build to higher levels of reading proficiency within each section. Organized into 7 sections: Reading for Deeper Meanings, Reading and Vocabulary, Reading Diagrams: Charts, Tables & Graphs, Reading Pictures: Cartoons & Maps, Reading & Study Skills, Reading & Its Writing Connection, and Reading & Research. These lessons and activities are completely flexible and can be used with individual students or an entire class to meet particular corrective or remedial reading skill needs.
Synopsis
Offers secondary reading and English teachers a flexible, ready-to-use activities program for helping students on all ability levels develop basic reading skills, including 74 Instructor's Pages with information and directions for teaching specific skills and 152 reproducible Student Application Pages for giving students intense practice in using the particular skill.
About the Author
James F. Silver, Professor Emeritus in Residence at The College of New jersey in Trenton, is a former middle/junior high school teacher, K-8 principal, and New jersey certified reading specialist. This is his fifth teacher resource published by The Center for Applied Research in Education. Mr. Silver lives in Pennington, NJ.
Table of Contents
About This Resource
Section 1 : Reading for Deeper Meanings
Section 2 : Reading and Vocabulary
Section 3 : Reading Diagrams/Charts, Tables and Graphs
Section 4 : Reading Pictures/Cartoons and Maps
Section 5 : Reading and Study Skills
Section 6 : Reading and Its Writing Connection
Section 7 : Reading and Research
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