Growing Readers: Units of Study in the Primary Classroom

6 best books like Growing Readers: Units of Study in the Primary Classroom (Kathy Collins): The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child, Guided Reading: Good First Teaching for All Children, Mosaic of Thought: Teaching Comprehension in a Reader's Workshop, Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding, Rainstorm, A Beautiful Corpse

The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child

Author	Donalyn Miller
ISBN	0470372273

Known for her popular blog, "The Book Whisperer," Donalyn Miller is a dedicated teacher who says she has yet to meet a child she couldn't turn into a reader. Her approach, however, is not conventional. Miller dispenses with the more traditional reading instruction of book reports and comprehension...

Guided Reading: Good First Teaching for All Children

Author	Irene C. Fountas
ISBN	0435088637

Among the many changes to sweep American literacy education has been a move toward whole class instruction. Nonetheless, children still bring to literacy a wide range of experiences and competencies. How, then, might teachers best support a literate community yet still meet the needs of individual...

Mosaic of Thought: Teaching Comprehension in a Reader's Workshop

Author	Ellin Oliver Keene
ISBN	0435072374

How do students become thoughtful, independent readers who comprehend text at a deep level?

To find the answers, authors Keene and Zimmermann embarked on a journey into the thought processes of proficient readers - a journey through poems and essays, classrooms and workshops, humor and...

Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding

Author	Stephanie Harvey
ISBN	1571103104

Places visualization, a comprehension technique I use in my work with kids as the centerpiece of a spectrum of increasingly complex strategies for understanding: Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Determining Importance and Synthesizing. While there's almost too much...

Rainstorm

Author	Barbara Lehman
ISBN	0618756396

A wordless story that I must admit I couldn’t tell if this was imagination or if the boy was really going someplace. It’s a rainy day and an only child is bored. He finds a key and finds the lock it goes in. It leads to a secret passage that ends up in a lighthouse where there are other children to play with....

A Beautiful Corpse

Author	Christi Daugherty
ISBN	1250318270

From Christi Daugherty, author of The Echo Killing, comes another pulse-pounding suspenseful thriller featuring crime reporter Harper McClain.

For a woman, being killed by someone who claims to love her is the most ordinary murder of all.

With its antebellum houses and ancient...