The Ultimate Small Group Reading How-to Book

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Gail Saunders-Smith

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Elementary Teaching Methods | Literacy, K-12 | Teaching Methods & Learning Styles

160 pages | Corwin

Formerly published by Zephyr Press This handbook describes the cognitive processes of emergent readers and provides educators with clear guidelines for promoting reading comprehension with small groups of young learners. A variety of exercises helps children locate, record, retrieve, and manipulate information from texts and enables teachers to measure how students respond in oral, written, graphic, and three-dimensional forms.

Acknowledgements

Part I. Introduction

Part II. Foundations

1. Continuum of Development

2. Fluency

Part III. Techniques

3. Groups, Schedules, and Management

4. Study Skills

5. Transitional Guided Reading

Part IV. Putting It All Together

6. Reader's Workshop

7. Literature Circles

8. Reciprocal Teaching

9. Writer's Craft

Glossary

Resource List of Organizations

Bibliography

Index

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Gail S. Saunders-Smith

Gail Saunders-Smith is a former classroom teacher, Reading Recovery® Teacher Leader and served as Reading/ Language Arts K-12 Supervisor and Coordinator of State and Federal Programs for the Summit County ESC. Currently, Gail is an assistant professor in the Beeghly College of Education at Youngstown State University. She is also an independent staff developer, writer, and editor. She has presented across the United States and Canada and written several books and articles on all aspects of literacy development. Gail holds a BS and MA in Early Childhood Education from Kent State University and a MS in Administration and Supervision... More About Author