Teaching Kids to Read: Embracing Guided Reading in Primary School Classrooms

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"A solid resource to help teachers understand the basic foundation for literacy development through guided reading in the primary grade." —Patti Ulshafer, first-grade teacher Develop successful readers with these strategies for before, during, and after reading. In Teaching Kids to Read, Gail Saunders-Smith 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 included helps children to locate, record, retrieve, and manipulate information from texts while enabling teachers to measure how students respond in oral, written, graphic, and three-dimensional forms. Topics covered include: AliteracyCoaching statementsElements of craftFalse positive readersFresh textGuided readingInstructional practiceMetacognitionPhonemic awarenessSelf-monitoringShared readingSight wordsStudy skillsTeacher talkWorkable wordsand more!