Reading Instruction Books

Kathy Perez's MORE THAN 100 BRAIN-FRIENDLY TOOLS AND STRATEGIES FOR LITERACY INSTRUCTION offers more than 100 field-tested strategies for results at any grade level, blending hands-on activities with techniques for different intelligence levels. These strategies will provide teachers, literacy coaches and reading specialists not with theory but with proven tools that work, making for an important classroom pick.

This book gives you many ideas to make literacy and content come alive by offering interactive activities. It provides relevant, brain-friendly strategies. Ignite your students' natural live for learning and buy this book today!

This is the most intense and thorough advanced rhythmic reading text that you can probably find anywhere. I'm a professional guitarist who likes to play and write in a wacky fusion-esque style. Since tapping into this book my writing and improvising has morphed into realms that I never expected to ever experience. You should already have an okay understanding of basic sixteenth note rhythms before you jump into this book. To quickly advance to that level may I recommend Rhythmic Training by Robert Starer. If you want to take your reading, improvising and musicality to the ionosphere, these two books are the ticket !!

This book is from 1968 but it's still a very good book to start your Odd Time studies with. You have to know how to read music to use it (if dont know how to do that you could check out the books by Robert Starer).

Although written by a very famous drummer this is not a drumset book, but an exercise book written to develop your sight reading skill and understanding of Odd Rhythms, and it is suitable for everyone no matter what instrument you play, the examples are not melodic, just written on one note, so the focus is on the Rhythm, and the examples are from simple to quite complicated.

The book deals with Rhythms in 3,5,6,7,8,9 and 12, with either the quarter or eighth or sixteenth note as the basic pulse. There are sections dealing with changing metres also. The book is about 130 pages so there is a lot of stuff here, the exercices start simple and then gradualy get more complicated.

A fine book, Highly Recommended.

Other good rhythm book Authors are Alan Dworsky, Gary Hess, Peter Magadini, Reinhard Flatichler, Gary Chaffee and Gavin Harrison.

The information contained in Phoenetic Readings of Songs and Arias is an absolutely necessary tool for every student of classical vocal repertoire. Not only do the authors understand what the novice singer needs, in terms of word order and pronounciation, but the information is also a very handy reference for the advanced singer and teacher. The best thing about this volume is that translations of the original word order of the original language is given, so that the student can see "how the language works" in its own word order. A great book!.

This will save you A LOT of money!! Buy this instead of using IPA source every time! There are very few markings that I disagree with and has a wide range of Italian, French and German songs. It has the least amount of songs in the French language, but the Italian and German sections are phenominal. Any serious singer should own it.

This book is a great resource for teachers of all types of readers--developing, struggling, or readers with disabilities. With the specific information the authors provide on how to assess a student's level of phonological awareness and then methods for instruction to meet those needs, this book is extremely clear and easy to use. It can be used with the whole class, in small groups, or in intense individualized instruction. I recommend it highly.

I've read numerous books and articles about phonological awareness, and this one is by far the best! It provides a lot of important information in a way that is accessible to anyone, beginning teacher or veteran. There are loads of activities for the classroom, too. I really like how the book is organized into the levels of phonological awareness (word, syllable, onset-rime, and phoneme). This makes it easy to select activities based on the developmental level of my students. I highly recommend this book to all teachers of kids in preschool, kindergarten, first grade, or even second or third grade. Some of the activities would even be appropriate for older kids who are still having a hard time with the basics.

I've seen this program in action. The reading scores for the district went from dismal to above average, and ALL readers were on grade level...there was NO difference between the races, new-to-English learners, or sexes.

In other words, NCLB happened. You owe it to yourself to get this book and implement it in EVERY school in EVERY instance.

This is the best book I've ever seen to buy if you are a K-5 teacher (general ed or special ed) concerned with teaching children to read well and to enjoy reading. It is presented in a straightforward, very user-friendly format that lends itself to immediate application in the classroom. There are chapters on specific aspects of reading instruction -- familiar ones, like phonemic awareness, vocabulary and comprehension, but also ones on advanced word reading skills (sometimes a big hurdle for children in 4th and 5th grades) and fluency. There are no long-winded, turgid pages of text to plow through: every chapter is beautifully laid out, in a Q and A format (also included in the table of contents)). There are repeated sections in various chapters focusing on Differentiating Instruction, Reflective Practice, Using Technology, Research to Practice, Bridging the Gap, Effective Teacher at Work, Seizing the Teachable moment, etc. Each of these highlights an effective and PRACTICAL approach to the matter at hand.

The authors include numerous examples, teaching formats that illustrate how to introduce and structure a lesson, how to give students effective feedback and assess progress, and many more of the small details that go into effective teacher-student interaction. Illustrative examples and case studies, applications, examples of how to use a variety of strategies and resources, from Word Walls to advance organizers, even more effectively. There are links to valuable web-based resources and informative articles, and an excellent DVD enclosed with the book that briefly illustrates a number of different teacher-led activities.

For those who are not that tech-savvy, there's a very clear and easy-to-follow guide that shows you how to make graphs of student progress with Excel. It's quick and rewarding! Model lessons and many examples of strategies, resources and teaching techniques and how to use them make this a must-have book. It's nicely printed with varying typefaces and text boxes, easy to read, and lies flat if you are wanting to use it in class and refer back to it.

While it is an excellent book for newer teachers, it has plenty of useful and informative content for experienced ones, and references at the end of each chapter for those wanting to further their knowledge. The lucidity of the writing, and the clear layout and comprehensive, grounded-in-reality coverage of all the essential components of reading (including motivating readers and application to writing) are what make this book stand out head and shoulders above many others in the field.

I think I own nearly all the major books on teaching reading, and many of them are also excellent, but this is one that I feel every committed classroom practitioner should have. I keep coming back to it over and over.

The Little Engine That Could and the Big Chase

Strongly recommended for pre-schoolers that are just getting started reading. Teaches another one of Life's lessons.


Gunner September 2007

Great story, my 3&4 yr olds love to hear it night after night.

what ken does with this book is amazing for a basic person like me to sit down and read a book like this is amazing i learnt soooooo much!!!!!!!!!!! buy this book!!!!!!!!!!!

This is a fabulous book. It's a great place to start for one who is interested in the more intellectual side of vampire fiction. There is some great discussion of the vampire as an economic metaphor.

This intermediate level Hebrew reader inductively introduces the student who has just completed an elementary level Hebrew grammar to actually reading extended passages of the Hebrew Bible. The student of Hebrew is introduced to historical narratives, legal texts, wisdom literature, and Hebrew poetry--which many elementary grammars shy away from to the detriment of the student. Zvi introduces the student to the important sigla of the massoretic text. Because the textbook inductively introduces the student to Hebrew syntax, it would be a good idea to use A.B. Davidson's Introduction to Hebrew: Syntax or Ronald J. Williams Hebrew Syntax: An Outline as an aid along with the textbook.

I teach classical Hebrew, in a four-semester program at the undergraduate level. So, I'm always looking for excellent teaching materials to help my students read and comprehend the beautiful and barbaric language of the ancient Biblical texts. There are plenty of introductory grammars, many of them very good. But there are not many textbooks available to help the second year reader.

It is this unreached audience that Ben Zvi,Hancock and Beinert target so well in this book. I'll hazard the guess that even if there were half a dozen or more such texts readily available, this one would still surpass them all in usefulness to the student.

As the sages and rabbis are wont to say, "baruch hashem."

BG Curtis/Geneva College

Recieved item on time, right when we were told it would arrive. Book in very good condition.

This reference book offers many suggestions for reading interventions that can be easily implemented in the classroom. Dr Vaughn has a high reputation for quality reading interventions and this book reinforces that reputation.

I already had experience with some music but I was never really all too good at the reading and theory aspects. This book, while it looks small, is in fact quite informative and laid it in a very easy-to-understand format. It is neither too simple nor too complex, the important part is that if you read it with interest a few times, you will in fact gain a lot of knowledge of music theory. If you're planning to take up an instrument, I definietly reccomend picking this up, or borrowing it from a library, before you do, so you're well versed in theory that otherwise would have made you waste quite a bit of time in your lessons with.

... I just finished reading this little book. ... Yeah, I've come across some of this stuff before in my life: during music class in grade, middle, and high school; while taking guitar lessons at age 11 for a few weeks; while taking piano lessons at age 13 for a few months; while trying to teach myself guitar with books at age 14; while taking drum lessons for a few months at age 20; as well as what you come across while reading music magazines, music books, or jamming with your buddies. ... Compared to ALL of that combined exposure, I learned MORE from reading this little book than I did from all of my previous lessons in music. That's saying a LOT for a little book.

... Look, I'm a DRUMMER. I don't REALLY need to know all this THEORY stuff. But let me tell you: the next time I get together and jam with my friends, for the first time in my life, I am going to have at least SOME understanding of what the hell the guitar players and keyboardists are talking about. Yeah, allright, you might play by ear like Paul McCartney and Jimi Hendrix, too - as do I. ... But if you want to UNDERSTAND what Zappa KNEW like the back of his hand, then you NEED to know some Music Theory. You can start with this cool litle book! It makes a handy reference, especially when you can brag to your Music Major friends that NIRVANA were the masters of the art of "Fortepiano" ( "Loud, immediately followed by soft." ) ... YOWZA! - The Aeolian Kid