Reading Instruction Books

I was fortunate enough to attend this fantastic exhibit at the Reading Public Museum. I highly recommend making this puchase to those of you who missed it or wish to commemorate your own trip. You won't be disappointed! This large book is full of a great selection of Mr. Haring's colorful works, including items like the altar piece and nativity that aren't available in print for public purchase.

This is an awesome resource for both teachers and staff developers. As a staff developer, I have used it for many trainings - articles are a good length for jigsaw activities. I wish I had known about this book when I was a teacher. Articles contain pertinent information from key people in the field of English Language Development and Bilingual Education and address an array of topics from Second Language Acquisition to the Relationship between reading and Writing to various strategies within the "ESL" repetoire - both practice and theory. While the resource was published in 1994, the information is still pertinent and valuable for teachers of English Language learners (children who are learning English as a Second Language).

This book is great! I can download audio files from the muse-eek website and then sing along with it. I'm really starting to learn how to sing harmonies and how to hear them. I highly recommend getting Mr. Arnold's Ear Training CD's along with this book. The combination of both is really helping me.

LITERACY IN THE DIGITAL AGE by R.W. Burniske is an important, key exploration of how teachers can help students become good online communicators. From using language tactfully and evaluating web sites for validity to practicing etiquette on the Net, LITERACY IN THE DIGITAL AGE is packed with tips all educator libraries need.

Well done and easy to use. Very informative, concerning both the research side and actual practice in the classroom.

Highly recommended.

This book gives detailed instructions for not only teaching reading and writing effectively, but how to reach EVERY child. Kathryn Au has provided us all with a step-by-step method for creating a readers' and writers' workshop in every classroom. This method will work with all children including ESL and SPED. Literacy Instruction for Today is an essential book for every classroom, including inclusive classrooms. Your children will not want to stop writing. Teachers who have tried this method claim that they can't get their students to stop writing. Not only are there step-by-step instructions for teachers to go by, there are also samples of students' work and teacher logs. Summer is a great time to buy this book. Teachers will then have time to plan their own readers' and writers' workshops for their classrooms in the Fall. Good news:this method is applicable for grades K-12 and beyond.

This book is an excellent resource for aspiring teachers. Wood provides very valuable insight into the world of technology and the ways in which teachers can creatively and thoughtfully integrate it into the Language Arts curriculum framework. The suggestions are clever, fun, and engaging for writing students with various skill levels, and teachers with all experience levels.

This edited volume consists of papers delivered at a conference I organized at the University of Alabama in October 1989, one that was dominated by the excitement (or possibly hype) associated with what was then the relatively new and still strange-sounding term of hypertext. Indeed the self-proclaimed coiner of the term, Ted Nelson, delivered a rambling monologue on how the concept would solve both many of the world's problems (such as organizing and storing global knowledge) and many of his own personal problems, such as being unable to write a coherent essay--the solution to this latter problem was simple: put all your individual thoughts on individual hypercards and let readers organize them as they might. There is a fair amount of editorial intrusion in the volume, in the introduction and conclusion as well as with discussions with the participants following their essays, where my own skepticism seeps through, producing what is arguably a more balanced account, while still reflecting the excitement of an historical moment that most participants felt marked a truly revolutionary change in how we write.

This is the book for all teachers who love literature and desire to utilize internet resources with their children, but don't have the time to research hundreds of sites on their own. Karen A. Moran has done a thorough job of finding appropriate sites that relate to 38 different children's books. To name a few, the book includes Charlotte's Web, Night of the Twisters, Hatchet, Cricket in Times Square, Indian in the cupboard, Ribsey, Summer of my German Soldier, and The Watson's go to Burmingham - 1963. For each title, the author lists an average of five different web sites that contain a curriculum connection to the book. The activity suggestions range in grade level ability and are both fresh and creative! Included also are other suggested resources, and professional materials.

A must have for any elementary teacher working with books and computers!

I find this book perfect for real beginners as well as bass players that can play, but wnat to learn how to read.