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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Thousand Oaks :
SAGE Publications,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
- 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)
- 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.