Develop successful readers with these strategies for before, during, and after reading.
In Building Literacy Through Small-Group Instruction, 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: • Aliteracy • Coaching statements • Elements of craft • False positive readers • Fresh text • Guided reading • Instructional practice • Metacognition • Phonemic awareness • Self-monitoring • Shared reading • Sight words • Study skills • Teacher talk • Workable words • and more!
