Teaching Reading with Jamestown
1st Edition
0078457475
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9780078457470
© 2004 | Published: March 20, 2003
Help new teachers organize a reading courseUse successful, research-based reading strategies while teaching any subjectOrganize your Jamestown materials into an effective reading curriculumPlace students in the correct levels of Jamestown booksTeachi…
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Teaching Reading with Jamestown
Key Components of Reading Instruction
Vocabulary Building
Memory Techniques
Vocabulary Activities
Explicit Instruction of Reading Skills and Strategies
Daily Reading
Fluency Practice
Writing
Classroom Management
Organizing Instruction
Instructional Methods
Reciprocal Teaching
Modeling
Instructional Groupings
Cooperative Learning Methods
Conferencing
Lesson Planning
Before Readng
Acquire Critical Vocabulary
Activate Prior Knowledge
Preview the Selection
Set a Purpose for Reading
During Reading
Guided Reading
Reading Arrangements
Six Active Reading Strategies
After Reading
Facilitating the Jamestown Exercises
Extending the Pre-reading Themes
Responding
Summarizing
Making Connections
Strategy Combinations
KWL: Especially for Reading Nonfiction
SQ3R: For Reading Textbooks
Story Map: For Reading Fiction
Skills and Strategies Minilessons
Monitoring Comprehension
Fix-Up Word Strategies
Context Clues
Word Parts: Prefixes and Suffixes
Predicting
QAR: Question-Answer Relationship
Main Idea and Supporting Details
Text Structures
Text Structure: Sequence (Time Order)
Text Structure: Classification
Text Structure: Cause and Effect
Text Structure: Comparison and Contrast
Summarizing
Visualizing
Reading with Jamestown
Critical Reading and The Wild Side
Five-Star Stories
Signature Reading
Best Series
Jamestown's Reading Improvement Series
Timed Readings
Six-Way Paragraphs
English, YES!
Reading Fluency
Comprehension Skills
The Contemporary Reader
WordShop
FrightWrite
Jamestown Placement Test
IRA/NCTE Standards for the English Language Arts
Glossary
Graphic Organizers
KWL Chart
Story Map
Main Ideas Map
Flow Chart
Single Cause with Multiple Effects
Cause-and-Effect Chain
Venn Diagram
- Help new teachers organize a reading course
- Use successful, research-based reading strategies while teaching any subject
- Organize your Jamestown materials into an effective reading curriculum
- Place students in the correct levels of Jamestown books
- Teaching Reading with Jamestown provides all the support needed for the teaching of reading!
Whether you are a professional in the field of reading or an instructor whose specialization lies elsewhere, using this guide will help you maximize your students' abilities and augment their reading skills. This new reading guide will help you:
- Construct effective three-part reading lessons
- Use research-based strategies to improve fluency and comprehension
- Utilize proven techniques to develop vocabulary
- Organize and plan instruction
- Compare your classroom goals against national standards
Includes mini-lessons that can be applied to any reading materials, additional strategies for use with your Jamestown books, graphic organizers, and a placement test to help you start students off at an appropriate reading level. The placement test was developed by Edward B. Fry, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University and author of Jamestown's Reading Improvement series and the Fry Readability Scale.
Use Teaching Reading with Jamestown to:
- Organize your staff development programs
- Train teachers new to the field of reading
- Get optimal use out of your Jamestown books