Theory and practice

Provides intervention instruction for struggling readers that covers the most important aspects of literacy including oral language, phonemic awareness, word recognition, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, and writing.

Provides twelve steps to help students learn to read with speed and accuracy; and includes assessment forms and instructional strategies.

A guide to RTI--Response to Intervention--for education leaders, discussing ways to evaluate core instruction and determine the needs of students, and covering the management of core instruction and intervention, with tips on effectively using teacher resources.

Share over 100 visualization strategies that build reading skills and make reading, discussing, and reflecting on texts engaging and relevant.

Explains the importance of teaching primary school students how to read and write informational text and offers suggestions for integrating it into the curriculum.

Presents lessons teachers may use to help their students appreciate and write nonfiction, based on interviews the author conducted with contemporary nonfiction authors about their writing practices.

Describes six traits of good writing in any genre, including ideas, organizations, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions, and presentation, and offers advice for teachers on how to assess student writing using the 6 + 1 TRAIT model. Includes scoring guides, sample student papers, and focus lessons and activities.

Offers advice to literacy coaches and teachers on how to use read alouds to help students become skilled readers and writers, featuring tutorials based on favorite picture books, discussing the importance of tone, intensity, pacing, and mood in reading aloud, and including a companion DVD.