The Ultimate Small Group Reading How-to Book
Building Comprehension Through Small-Group Instruction
June 2008 | 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