Raising Reading Achievement in Middle and High Schools : Five Simple-to-Follow Strategies.

<Font size=""2"">This second edition enhances the ""five big ideas"" for raising reading achievement with seven cognitive strategies and more than twenty ""teaching for learning"" tips for daily instruction.</font>

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: McEwan-Adkins, Elaine K.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2006.
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505 0 |a Cover -- Contents -- List of Teaching for Learning Tips -- Preface -- A Change in Focus -- The Goals of This Book -- Who This Book is for -- What This Book is Not -- Overview of the Contents -- A New Feature -- The Challenge -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Chapter 1 -- Reading Achievement: Where Do we Stand? -- Raising Achievement Expectations -- The State of Reading Achievement in the Nation -- The Response of Educators -- The State of Reading Achievement in the States -- Roadblocks to Raising Achievement in Middle and High Schools -- The Responsibility of School Leaders -- Reflection and Discussion Questions -- Chapter 2 -- Focus on Changing What You can Change -- Change the Educational Paradigm -- Change How Goals are Set -- Change How Teachers Teach -- Change the Curriculum and How it is Chosen -- Change the Alignment of the Curriculum -- Change the Amount of Time Allocated to Reading Instruction -- Change Where Strategic Reading Instruction is Provided -- Change How Learning is Assessed -- Change Expectations for Students -- Change How Professional Development is Provided -- Reflection and Discussion Questions -- Chapter 3 -- Teach the Students Who can't Read How to Read -- How Children Learn to Read: a Short Lesson -- Failing to Learn -- Programs to Remediate Struggling Secondary Students -- Find the Students in Special Education Who can't Read and Teach Them to Read -- Reflection and Discussion Questions -- Chapter 4 -- Teach Every Student How to Read to Learn -- Reading to Learn and Cognitive Strategies -- The Strategic Teacher -- How to Teach Cognitive Strategies -- Reciprocal Teaching -- Transactional Strategies Instruction -- Reading to Learn and Vocabulary Development -- Reading to Learn and Knowledge Acquisition -- How We can Engage More Students in Reading to Learn. 
505 8 |a Cognitive Strategy Instruction at Alief Hastings High School -- Reflection and Discussion Questions -- Chapter 5 -- Motivate Every Student to Read in the Zone -- The Value of Reading a Lot -- Reading in the Zone -- The Importance of Reading Challenging Fiction and Nonfiction -- The Importance of Accountability -- Portfolios -- Reading Journals -- Book Reviews -- Essays -- Personal Anthologies -- Every-Pupil Response Activities -- Motivating Students to Read a Lot -- Engaging Students in Reading -- The Right Kind of Teachers -- Skills to Read with Confidence and Success -- The Right Kind of Books -- Opportunities for Directed and Focused Silent Reading during the School Day -- The Promotion of Books by Every Teacher -- Superior Library-Media Services -- Reflection and Discussion Questions -- Chapter 6 -- Create a Reading Culture in Your School -- Pay Attention to the Basic Beliefs and Core Values of Stakeholders -- Determine What Needs to be Changed -- Identify the Roadblocks to Change -- Hire a Strong (Assertive) Instructional Leader -- What Does it Take to be an Assertive Leader? -- Assess the Principal's Instructional Leadership -- Hold Everyone Accountable -- Make a Plan -- Don't Forget the Parents and Kids -- Assess for Learning -- Press Academically and be Instructionally Tenacious -- Getting the Job Done at Griffin Middle School -- Reflection and Discussion Questions -- Resource A. Assessment Tools -- Resource A.1: Prereading Assessment Form -- Resource A.2: Prereading Assessment Key -- Resource A.3: Postreading Assessment Form -- Resource A.4: Postreading Assessment Key -- Resource B. Programs for Learning to Read in Secondary School -- Benchmark Program -- Resources -- Professional Development -- Program Information -- Corrective Reading -- Resources -- Professional Development -- Program Information -- Higher-Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) 
505 8 |a Resources -- Professional Development -- Program Information -- Language!® -- Resources -- Professional Development -- Program Information -- Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes -- Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing Program -- Seeing Stars: Symbol Imagery for Sight Words and Spelling -- Visualizing and Verbalizing for Language Comprehension and Thinking -- Resources -- Professional Development -- Program Information -- Reading is FAME -- Research and Evaluation Results -- Resources -- Professional Development -- Program Information -- Reasoning and Writing -- Professional Development -- Program Information -- REWARDS (Reading Excellence: Word Attack and Rate Development Strategies) -- Resources -- Professional Development -- Program Information -- The Spalding Method -- Resources -- Professional Development -- Program Information -- Spelling through Morphographs -- Resources -- Professional Development -- Program Information -- Resource C. Creating a Strong Reading Culture: A Process Exercise -- Description -- Application -- Time Required -- Materials -- Administration Directions -- References -- Index. 
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