Description
Survival Reading Skills for Secondary Students is an essential guide crafted specifically for educators working with struggling readers in grades 5-12. This comprehensive resource offers a wealth of classroom-tested strategies designed to enhance reading proficiency, ensuring every student can master crucial literacy skills. With an emphasis on real-life applications, students will engage with practical tasks such as completing job applications, reading airline schedules, and applying for driver's licenses, fostering skills that are vital for their future success.
Organized into seven clear sections and printed in a user-friendly 8 ˝” x 11” lay-flat format, this book is perfect for photocopying and classroom use. It includes ready-to-use activity sheets and effective assessment tools, tailored to help students improve their reading competence. You’ll find informal reading assessments, strategies for identifying essential content sight words, and engaging activities that make learning enjoyable.
Whether you're a reading specialist or a content area teacher, this guide provides the effective techniques you need to help struggling secondary students overcome challenges and achieve reading success. Invest in their future with practical, evidence-based strategies that work!
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled. Brand new copy, ISBN: 9780787965976, published by John Wiley & Sons Inc (US), 352 pages.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780787965976
Year: 2003
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc (US)
Pages: 352
Description:
Survival Reading Skills for Secondary Students is your guide
for working with struggling students in grades 5-12 no matter what
their reading ability. This valuable resource is a down-to-earth
guide that contains countless classroom-tested strategies that
reading and content area teachers can use to reinforce skills that
students must master to read effectively. In addition, the book
offers ready-to-use activity sheets designed to improve competency
in a number of relevant reading skills. Students will learn how to
fill in a job application, read an airline schedule, apply for a
driver's license, and practice many more useful real-life skills.
For quick access and easy use, the book is organized in seven
sections and printed in a big 8 Ă‚Ëť" X 11" lay-flat format for
easy photocopying. The following is just a small sample of the many
strategies, assessments, inventories, and activities featured in
each section:
1. INFORMAL READING ASSESSMENT TOOLS FOR OLDER STUDENTS:
Includes a Content Reading Inventory. . . lists of sample words
from a range of content areas including English, social studies,
science, and mathematics&an informal assessment to determine a
student's approximate instructional reading level.
2. STRATEGIES AND ACTIVITIES FOR IMPROVING SKILLS TO IDENTIFY
CONTENT SIGHT WORDS: Provides reproducible copies of words
needed for computer literacy . . . strategies for improving
students' ability to recognize and identify important content and
daily-living words . . . activities that include a reversed
crossword puzzle and a magic square from science.
3. STRATEGIES AND ACTIVITIES FOR IMP
Organized into seven clear sections and printed in a user-friendly 8 ˝” x 11” lay-flat format, this book is perfect for photocopying and classroom use. It includes ready-to-use activity sheets and effective assessment tools, tailored to help students improve their reading competence. You’ll find informal reading assessments, strategies for identifying essential content sight words, and engaging activities that make learning enjoyable.
Whether you're a reading specialist or a content area teacher, this guide provides the effective techniques you need to help struggling secondary students overcome challenges and achieve reading success. Invest in their future with practical, evidence-based strategies that work!
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled. Brand new copy, ISBN: 9780787965976, published by John Wiley & Sons Inc (US), 352 pages.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780787965976
Year: 2003
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc (US)
Pages: 352
Description:
Survival Reading Skills for Secondary Students is your guide
for working with struggling students in grades 5-12 no matter what
their reading ability. This valuable resource is a down-to-earth
guide that contains countless classroom-tested strategies that
reading and content area teachers can use to reinforce skills that
students must master to read effectively. In addition, the book
offers ready-to-use activity sheets designed to improve competency
in a number of relevant reading skills. Students will learn how to
fill in a job application, read an airline schedule, apply for a
driver's license, and practice many more useful real-life skills.
For quick access and easy use, the book is organized in seven
sections and printed in a big 8 Ă‚Ëť" X 11" lay-flat format for
easy photocopying. The following is just a small sample of the many
strategies, assessments, inventories, and activities featured in
each section:
1. INFORMAL READING ASSESSMENT TOOLS FOR OLDER STUDENTS:
Includes a Content Reading Inventory. . . lists of sample words
from a range of content areas including English, social studies,
science, and mathematics&an informal assessment to determine a
student's approximate instructional reading level.
2. STRATEGIES AND ACTIVITIES FOR IMPROVING SKILLS TO IDENTIFY
CONTENT SIGHT WORDS: Provides reproducible copies of words
needed for computer literacy . . . strategies for improving
students' ability to recognize and identify important content and
daily-living words . . . activities that include a reversed
crossword puzzle and a magic square from science.
3. STRATEGIES AND ACTIVITIES FOR IMP