Engaging Young Readers
Subtitle: Promoting Achievement and Motivation
Contributors: Linda Baker (Editor); Mariam Jean Dreher (Editor); John T. Guthrie (Editor)
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Published: March 7, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9781572305359
Subjects: English language: reading skills; Teaching of a specific subject; Teaching skills & techniques; Reading (Elementary); Education; Education / Teaching; English; United States; Reading Skills; Teaching Methods & Materials - Reading; Language Arts & Disciplines / Reading Skills; Academic achievement; Motivation in education
First sentence: A variety of recent initiatives at the local, state, and federal levels are designed to increase reading achievement in the United States.
Description: This volume demonstrates how promoting children's engagement with reading can greatly enhance reading achievement. 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. --From publisher's description.