R.E.A.D.: Seventy Strategies to Support Reading Success

This new first edition text will excite future teachers in their endeavors to help students become strategic readers.  This book is a collection of strategies based on the 5 + 2 essential elements of literacy instruction: oral language, phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing. The text is intended to be a “teacher friendly” document that teachers can use to provide students with strategies for developing a clearer understanding of these areas of literacy development.  Many of the “strategies” included in this book could be referred to as activities, methods, or even approaches.   Divided into eight sections, each section contains a brief conceptual overview as well as specific strategies that can be used to facilitate the development of that literacy process. Each strategy follows a READ format:  (R) explains why the strategy is important in developing strategic readers as it applies to that particular literacy element.  The strategy explanation (E) extends on the importance by more explicitly defining and describing critical characteristics that it encompasses.  The application (A) section provides a descriptive narrative of what the strategy might look like in the classroom. Step-by-step procedures for strategy implementation are provided in the delivery (D) section.

Table of Contents:
Introduction ix Dedication xi SECTION I Oral Language 1 Barrier Games 3 Directed Listening–Thinking Activity 5 Elaboration 7 Grand Conversations 9 Language Experience Approach 11 Retelling 13 Role Play 15 Sketch-to-Stretch 17 SECTION II Phonemic Awareness 19 Clapping Syllables 21 Elkonin Boxes 23 Language Play 25 Picture BINGO 27 Picture Sorts 31 SECTION III Phonics 35 Analytic Phonics 37 Synthetic Phonics 39 Embedded Phonics 41 Analogy Phonics 43 BINGO 46 Cloze 48 Onset and Rime Flip Books 50 Making Words 53 Rainbow Alphabet Arc 56 Word Family Concentration 58 Word Wall 61 SECTION IV Fluency 65 Choral Reading 66 Echo Reading 68 Fluency Development Lesson 70 Neurological Impress Method 72 Readers’ Theater 74 Tape-Assisted Reading 76 SECTION V Vocabulary 79 Concept Circles 81 Context Clues 84 Frayer Model 87 Linear Arrays 89 List-Group-Label 91 Possible Sentences 94 Predict-o-Gram 96 Semantic Feature Analysis 99 Semantic Maps 101 Vocabulary Knowledge Rating Scale 104 Vocabulary Doodles 107 Word Sorts 109 SECTION VI Comprehension 111 Anticipation Guide 113 Character Analysis 115 Cubing 117 Directed Reading–Thinking Activity 119 Discussion Web 121 GO! Chart 123 K-W-L 127 Plot Graph 129 Question-Answer Relationships 131 Questioning the Author 134 Reciprocal Teaching 136 Skimming and Scanning 138 Story Bags 140 Story Maps 142 Story Pyramids 145 SECTION VII Writing 147 Alphabet Books 149 Interactive Writing 152 Journaling 154 Learning Logs 156 RAFT 158 REAP 160 SPAWN 162 Writing Frames 164 SECTION VIII VIPs 167 Read-Aloud 168 Shared Reading 171 Guided Reading 174 Independent Reading 177 Literature Circles 179 INDEX 183

About the Author :
Kimberly Kimbell-Lopez and Carrice Cummins are the authors of R.E.A.D.: Seventy Strategies to Support Reading Success, published by Wiley.