This volume demonstrates how promoting children's engagement with reading can greatly enhance reading achievement. From leading literacy researchers and educators, the book illuminates what a child needs to become an engaged reader and presents a set of instructional principles designed to facilitate this goal. Helping teachers offer a coordinated emphasis on competence and motivation in reading instruction, chapters blend research evidence with practical recommendations. Topics covered include ways to provide children with a good foundation at the word level, help if they are in trouble, ample time and materials for reading, opportunities to share in a community of learners, instruction that is coherent, motivating, and responsive to each child's strengths and weaknesses, school-wide coordination of instruction, and continuities between home and school.

This book features practical reading strategies for elementary students, with a focus on how technology can be used to improve the skills of a wide range of readers. Educators must be able to engage with readers at every level. They must also be able to evaluate where each student lies on the continuum and improve students’ skills to bring them to the appropriate level. Engaging Young Readers is a beginner-level guide focusing on developmental reading strategies for elementary students at all stages, with guidance on how to use technology to improve the skills of beginning readers, struggling readers, reluctant readers, enriched readers and English Language Learners (ELLs). Topics covered include: • Using music as an instructional tool • Choral reading and read alouds • Graphic organizers • Dramatic learning and literature circles • Writing workshops • And much more! This book gives teachers the strategies and technology they need to meet their students where they are in their reading ability so they can move forward in their personalized skill development.

With today's emphasis on meeting standards and teaching within a structured curricula, it's often difficult to find time to focus on high-quality literature in daily instruction. Fortunately, in this long-awaited third edition of the bestselling Children's Literature in the Reading Program, you ll discover the creative teaching strategies and practical guidance you need to effectively incorporate high-quality literature into your busy classroom schedule so that your students can learn to read and enjoy doing so. This fully revised edition features all-new chapters written by outstanding educators and children's book authors that reflect the most recent research in the field. Chapters include the most current children's literature, including postmodern picture books, graphic novels, and popular series books. This book will help you select the right books for the right students at the right time, while also breathing life into the literacy curriculum. The International Reading Association is the world's premier organization of literacy professionals. Our titles promote reading by providing professional development to continuously advance the quality of literacy instruction and research. Research-based, classroom-tested, and peer-reviewed, IRA titles are among the highest quality tools that help literacy professionals do their jobs better.

All Rookie Readers actively engage young readers, encouraging language development, building fluency, and promoting independent reading. By targeting a skill, like learning about rhymes, young readers are building fundamental reading skills with the help of fun, lively, colorfully illustrated stories.