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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Raising an Active Reader explains research on reading aloud with children who are in early elementary school (grades K-3). Upon completion, adults will know how read aloud works for children who are learning to read, and how the ABCs of Active Reading (Ask questions, Build vocabulary, and make Connections) build important reading skills."--
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Draws on the author's extensive research from "Proust and the Squid" to consider the future of the reading brain and its capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection in today's highly digitized world.
A decade ago, Wolf's Proust and the Squid revealed what we know about how the brain learns to read and how reading changes the way we think and feel. Now, in a series of letters, Wolf describes her concerns-- and hopes-- about how digital...
Publisher
LearningExpress
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Being a good reader isn't just about knowing the words--you have to understand what you read and put it to use. Critical reading is an essential skill at work and in school. This eBook provides a complete reading tutorial in an easy 20-step program.
9) The art of X-ray reading: how the secrets of 25 great works of literature will improve your writing
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Where do writers learn their best moves? They use a technique that Roy Peter Clark calls X-ray reading, a form of reading that lets you penetrate beyond the surface of a text to see how meaning is actually being made. In THE ART OF X-RAY READING, Clark invites you to don your X-ray reading glasses and join him on a guided tour through some of the most exquisite and masterful literary works of all time, fromThe Great Gatsby to Lolita to The Bluest...
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Series
Fly Guy volume 5
Description
When Buzz, his parents, and his pet fly go on a road trip and get lost, Fly Guy comes to the rescue to help them find their way home. Introduces vocabulary skills, character identification, word building, alphabet.
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Publisher
Thomson Delmar Learning
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Proven strategies for better reading skills-from comprehension, focus, and retention to overcoming challenges such as ADD. Whether it's for education or enjoyment, reading can be challenging. Understanding and remembering what you've read, and keeping focus and concentration when you have to read long or difficult texts, takes certain skills. Luckily, those skills can be learned and improved. In Improve Your Reading, education expert Ron Fry offers...
12) Horseback riding
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Series
Publisher
Xist Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Learn all about the sport of Horesback Riding! Each section encourages critical thinking and includes embedded comprehension questions to get kids making connections with the images and written information." -- Back cover.
13) 200+ proven strategies for teaching reading, grades K-8: support the needs of struggling readers
Author
Publisher
Solution Tree
Pub. Date
2016
Description
In 200+ Proven Strategies for Teaching Reading, Grades K-8, author Kathy Perez asserts that supporting struggling readers remains ineffectively addressed across grade levels and content areas in general education. To combat this problem with literacy instruction, she provides practical, brain research-based intervention techniques and reading strategies teachers can use to help all students, especially those who are struggling, make strides in literacy...
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Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Slow Reading in a Hurried Age is a practical guide for anyone who yearns for a more meaningful and satisfying reading experience, and who wants to sharpen reading skills and improve concentration. The author demonstrates exactly how the tried-and-true methods of slow reading can provide a more immersive, fulfilling experience. He begins with fourteen preliminary rules for slow reading and shows us how to apply them. The rules are followed by excursions...
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Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2008
Description
"Human beings were never born to read," writes Tufts University cognitive neuroscientist and child development expert Maryanne Wolf. Reading is a human invention that reflects how the brain rearranges itself to learn something new. In this ambitious, provocative book, Wolf chronicles the remarkable journey of the reading brain not only over the past five thousand years, since writing began, but also over the course of a single child's life, showing...
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Guilford Press
Pub. Date
2007
Description
"This practitioner resource and course text has given thousands of K-12 teachers evidence based tools for helping students--particularly those at risk for reading difficulties--understand and acquire new knowledge from text. The authors present a range of scientifically validated instructional techniques and activities, complete with helpful classroom examples and sample lessons. The book describes ways to assess comprehension; build the skills that...
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Publisher
Rockridge Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Learn how to thrive with dyslexia as an adult. No matter when you're diagnosed, living with dyslexia can be a challenge -- but it can also make you a unique and creative thinker. The Dyslexia Guide for Adults helps you boost your confidence with advice for embracing your greatest strengths. With these proven strategies and exercises, you'll learn to understand yourself better as you navigate social situations, the workplace, and beyond. Dyslexia in...