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Becoming a Great Teacher of Reading
Achieving High Rapid Reading Gains With Powerful, Differentiated Strategies

First Edition
  • Marie Carbo - National Reading Styles Institute, Syosset, NY


August 2007 | 248 pages | Corwin
Use this 'failure-free' approach to improve test scores and help all students enjoy reading!Are you looking for strategies that make learning to read easier and more fun for your students while bringing about significant increases in their performance results? Literacy expert Marie Carbo pairs identifying each learner's unique reading style with a wide range of differentiated strategies to help all learners experience greater reading success.Using these research-based methods, both novice and experienced teachers can increase reading achievement with all learners, including those who are at-risk, older, or have special needs, as well as English Language Learners. The author offers practical assistance for implementing strategies that meet the requirements of NCLB, Title I, Reading First, and many state initiatives. This teacher-friendly resource includes recommendations for:Closing the academic gap by focusing on learning strengthsIncreasing readers' confidence and creativity Accommodating students with special needs Using reading labs with older students A powerful tool for nurturing a love of reading, Becoming a Great Teacher of Reading not only strengthens students' reading comprehension and increases their reading motivation and enjoyment, but also helps ensure their continuing academic success.
 
Acknowledgments
 
About the Author
 
Introduction
 
1. Believe All Students Can Learn
 
2. Understand 12 Guiding Principles
 
3. Focus on Comprehension and Enjoyment
 
4. Identify Natural Strengths
 
5. Teach to Natural Strengths
 
6. Use the Continuum of Assisted Reading Methods
 
7. Use the Carbo Recording Method
 
8. Provide Opportunities for Active Learning
 
9. Design Student-Responsive Environments
 
10. Reduce Visual Dyslexia
 
11. Accommodate Students With Special Needs
 
12. Prepare Students for Tests
 
Epilogue. Becoming a Great Teacher of Reading
 
Appendix A. Glossary
 
Appendix B. U.S. Reading Achievement
 
Appendix C. Reading Styles Research
 
Appendix D. Learning Styles Research
 
Appendix E. Reading Style Inventory
 
References
 
Index

"If you really want to be a great reading teacher, this is the book for you! Marie Carbo has the research and the recipe to raise literacy levels. Differentiated instruction, teaching to student strengths, and reading strategies that work make this a resource that must be on every teacher’s shelf."

Marilee Sprenger, Author, Becoming a “Wiz” at Brain-Based Teaching

"A dynamic guide for any teacher of reading who wants to improve instruction and engage and excite students with reading. This how-to guide not only brings good sense and balance to the teaching of reading, but helps teachers return the joy of reading to the learning experience."

Dotti Augustine, Learning Specialist
Dillon Valley Elementary, CO

"Carbo’s clear voice reminds teachers that all students have the right to learn through their strengths rather than through a prescriptive, one-size-fits-all formula."

Henri Sue Bynum, Vice President of Academic Affairs
Indian River Community College

"An excellent book that will reignite your passion for teaching students of all abilities to read. Dr. Carbo’s focus on matching appropriate reading methods to student strengths is a uniquely positive, student-centered approach in today’s world of massive core reading programs and skills-based agendas. The book provides a wealth of concrete, research-based strategies that will truly allow you to differentiate instruction and bring the joy of reading to all of your students."

Jill Haney, Director of Reading
PCI Educational Publishing

"The Carbo assisted reading method has been proven to change the lives of many students by addressing their individual strengths and learning styles and promoting confidence and success in the areas of fluency and comprehension. Students become engaged and motivated readers through high-interest stories and choice of text. Not only do students learn to be successful readers, they also learn to love reading! That is the real success story!"

Lisa Wiler, Fourth-Grade Teacher
Catlettsburg Elementary School, KY

"Carbo excites educators about teaching reading while assuring them that having high expectations for struggling readers is a realistic vision."

Lorraine Coughlin, Coordinator of the Educator Preparation Institute
Indian River Community College

"Marie Carbo presents an excellent road map that shows teachers practical, everyday strategies they can implement as keys to unlocking the mystery of learning to read. Carbo’s strategies help educators match their teaching styles to students’ reading styles and focus on using students’ strengths to address their academic weaknesses. Professional learning communities would benefit from using and discussing this book to keep the focus on students, their learning styles, and their academic success."

Robert W. Katulak, Assistant Superintendent for Elementary Education
Haverstraw-Stony Point Central School District, NY

"With a rising tide of 'lost boys' in reading classes and a drop out rate that hasn’t changed in decades, we ignore at our national risk the grand lesson in Marie Carbo’s 30 years of teaching and research: one size doesn’t fit all in reading. All children don’t learn to read the same way—any more than all major leaguers get their hits using the same stance. In this wonderful new volume, teachers old and new will find the missing ingredients—the classroom strategies that were missing for struggling readers who tried to read but failed. Marie Carbo shows us how to uncover each child’s strengths and use them."

Jim Trelease, Author of Read-Aloud Handbook

"Reading this book will teach or remind teachers to use key reading strategies, but most of all to remember that students learn through their strengths. This is so important and only Marie Carbo brings it to you in a way that makes so much sense and in a way that I have been looking for all my career."

Joyce L. Evans, Teacher
Monongah Elementary School, WV

"Connect, appreciate, and motivate—three powerful ideas that evolve in Carbo’s book. Reading becomes a personal triangle between the teacher, the student, and the wonderment of written words."

Melanie Rockwell, Teacher
Summit Elementary School, Ashland, KY

Sample Materials & Chapters

Introduction

Chapter 1


Marie Carbo

Marie Carbo began her career as an elementary and learning disabilities teacher, during which time her underachieving students attained unprecedented gains in reading. Her keen sense of what students need to succeed and how to make learning enjoyable guide her eminently practical approaches—all of which have from the beginning been thoroughly grounded in research. Award-winning research, shaped by an understanding of the demands of classroom practice, is the hallmark of Marie’s career. Her doctoral dissertation received ASCD’s First National Dissertation Award, and the Carbo Reading Styles Program has been named an effective, research... More About Author

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