The Joyful Reading Resource Kit: Teaching Tools, Hands-On Activities, and Enrichment Resources, Grades K-8

The Joyful Reading Resource Kit All children deserve a chance to learn to love reading. The Joyful Reading Resource Kit offers teachers an impressive array of tools, resources, and activities for getting students at all levels excited about reading while developing their proficiency in comprehension. Serving as a companion to Joyful Reading, the book offers teachers everything they need to implement the Schoolwide Enrichment Model in Reading (SEM-R), a differentiated instructional approach that encourages students to read independently for a period of time each day on books of their own choice. Implemented in three phases, the SEM-R program has been shown by research to improve fluency and comprehension among at-risk students. The Joyful Reading Resource Kit includes: Reproducible "bookmarks" for scaffolding students in critical thinking and comprehension activities Extensive lists of recommended books Tips for supporting students in selection of appropriately challenging books Materials for managing independent reading in the classroom, including log sheets, five-minute conference tips, writing prompts, assessment rubrics, and a reading growth chart Exciting enrichment resources to develop students' reading interests, including a survey form, online books, Web-based activities, and Renzulli Learning resources Hands-On Creativity activities that help students elaborate ideas, develop fluency, brainstorm, and much more Reproducible X-ploration projects on varied topics that students can pursue independently at their own pace The Joyful Reading Resource Kit is a vital compendium not only for classroom teachers but also for parents and after-school educators who wish to support students in discovering the rich rewards and delights of reading.

Table of Contents:
About This Book ix About the Authors xi Introduction: The Schoolwide Enrichment Model for Reading 1 General Tools and Resources 5 Using Bookmarks to Scaffold Thinking 7 SEM-R Bookmarks 9 Weekly Teacher Log 39 SEM-R Quality Indicator Checklists 43 Phase One: Support Materials for Book Hooks 47 Reading Comprehension Strategies in the SEM-R 49 Making Connections 49 Determining Importance 50 Questioning 50 Visualizing 50 Making Inferences 51 Synthesizing 51 Metacognition 51 Books That Act as Hooks 53 Lists of Recommended Books 57 Award Winners 57 Choice Winners 60 Classics 60 Author 62 Genre 65 Reading Level 71 Frequently Asked Questions About Phase One 81 Phase Two: Support Materials for Independent Reading 83 Choosing Books for Independent Reading: Making the Right Match 87 Word-Reading Level 87 Complexity of Content 87 Linking Students to Appropriate Books 88 Supporting Students in Selecting Books 91 Conferencing Strategies 95 Management Tips for Supporting Independent Reading 99 Progress Assessment Rubric 103 Providing a Purpose for Reading 105 Using Student Reading Logs 109 Schoolwide Enrichment Model for Reading Student Reading Log 111 Sample Student Reading Log 117 Frequently Asked Questions About Phase Two 123 Phase Three: Support Materials for Student-Selected Activities 127 Reading Interest-a-Lyzer 129 Renzulli Learning 133 Helping Teachers Provide Enriched, Differentiated Learning for All Their Students 134 The Renzulli Learning System 135 Creativity Training Activities 141 General Strategies for Creativity Training 141 Introductory Lessons in Creative Thinking 145 Activities for Exploring Creativity 149 Activity 1: If I Wrote the Book (Transforming Figures) 149 Activity 2: Rhyme Time (Creating Rhymes) 153 Activity 3: The Doodler (Elaborating) 157 Activity 4: Spin a Story (Developing Fluency) 161 Activity 5: Consequences (Speculating and Imagining) 165 Activity 6: Cartoon Captions (Writing Humor) 169 Activity 7: Way-Out Words (Linking Words and Symbols) 173 Activity 8: Make-a-Sentence (Creating Ideas from Words) 176 Activity 9: Changing Things (Brainstorming) 179 Activity 10: Can You Design It? (Planning) 182 Reading on the Internet 187 Authors’ and Publishers’ Sites 187 Online Books 188 Take a Test Drive! Exciting Web Sites for Students to Try 191 SEM-Xplorations: Enrichment Projects 201 1. Build a Bridge 203 2. Experiment with Sound 210 3. Investigate Local History 218 4. Create an Artifact Box 228 5. Draw a Comic Strip 234 6. Design a City of the Future 244 7. Create an Illustrated Book 248 8. Invent Something New 264 9. Write a Short Story (Grades K–4) 273 10. Write a Short Story (Grades 5–8) 283 Frequently Asked Questions About Phase Three 297 Frequently Asked Questions About the SEM-R 299 SEM-R Glossary 303

About the Author :
Sally M. Reis, Ph.D., is professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Connecticut where she also serves as principal investigator for the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented. Widely published, Reis conducts workshops and provides professional development to schools and districts both nationally and internationally. Her colleagues and coauthors are all professors in reading, educational psychology, and curriculum and instruction with extensive experience in SEM-R. She is the author of Joyful Reading from Jossey-Bass (978-0-470-22881-4).