What Really Matters for Struggling Readers: Designing Research-Based Programs

6 best books like What Really Matters for Struggling Readers: Designing Research-Based Programs (Richard L. Allington): The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child, Book Love: Developing Depth, Stamina, and Passion in Adolescent Readers, Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading, Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding, 6 + 1 Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide: Grades 3 Up: Everything You Need to Teach and Assess Student Writing With This Powerful Model, Pretend I'm Dead

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...

Book Love: Developing Depth, Stamina, and Passion in Adolescent Readers

Author	Penny Kittle
ISBN	0325042950

"I believe each of my students must craft an individual reading life of challenge, whim, curiosity, and hunger, and I've discovered that it is not too late in high school to lead a non-reader to reading. It's never too late."-Penny Kittle

Penny Kittle wants us to face the hard truths every English...

Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading

Author	Kylene Beers
ISBN	9780325046

"Notice and Note" picks up where Keene and Zimmermann left off (or left us hanging) with strategy-based comprehension instruction. Like many teachers in the 1990's, after I read Keene & Zimmermann's "Mosaic of Thought" I attempted to explicitly teach visualizing, connecting, inferencing,...

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...

6 + 1 Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide: Grades 3 Up: Everything You Need to Teach and Assess Student Writing With This Powerful Model

Author	Ruth Culham
ISBN	0439280389

Ideas, Organization, Voice, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, Conventions, and Presentation. Look at good writing in any genre, and you'll find these traits. Think of them as the fuel that stokes the engine of writing. With this book, teachers will learn how to assess student work for these traits and...

Pretend I'm Dead

Author	Jen Beagin
ISBN	1501183931

Miranda July meets Mary Karr in this brilliant debut novel from Jen Beagin, Whiting Award winner and “one of the freshest voices I've read in years—funny, wise, whip-smart and compassionate” (Jami Attenberg, author of The Middlesteins), about a cleaning lady on a quest for self-acceptance...