The Reading Puzzle: Fluency, Grades K-3

The Reading Puzzle: Fluency, Grades K-3

by Elaine K. McEwan-Adkins
The Reading Puzzle: Fluency, Grades K-3

The Reading Puzzle: Fluency, Grades K-3

by Elaine K. McEwan-Adkins

Paperback(Grades K-3)

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Overview

These valuable, grade-leveled resources incorporate reading skills identified by the National Reading Panel as critical to reading success. They provide standards-based, ready-to-use activities to improve spelling, phonological awareness, comprehension, and more!

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781412958233
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Publication date: 02/28/2008
Series: Reading Puzzle Series
Edition description: Grades K-3
Pages: 96
Product dimensions: 8.40(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.30(d)
Age Range: 4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Elaine K. Mc Ewan is an educational consultant with The Mc Ewan-Adkins Group, offering professional development for educators to assist them in meeting the challenges of literacy learning in Grades Pre K-6. A former teacher, librarian, principal, and assistant superintendent for instruction in several suburban Chicago school districts, Elaine is the award-winning and best-selling author of more than three dozen books for educators. Her Corwin Press titles include Raising Reading Achievement in Middle and High Schools: Five Simple-to-Follow Strategies for Principals, Second Edition (2006), Seven Strategies of Highly Effective Readers: Using Cognitive Research to Boost K-8 Achievement (2004), Ten Traits of Highly Effective Principals: From Good to Great Performance (2003), Making Sense of Research: What’s Good, What’s Not, and How to Tell the Difference (2003), Seven Steps to Effective Instructional Leadership, Second Edition (2003), Teach Them ALL to Read: Catching the Kids Who Fall through the Cracks (2002), and Ten Traits of Highly Effective Teachers: How to Hire, Mentor, and Coach Successful Teachers (2001).

Mc Ewan was honored by the Illinois Principals Association as an outstanding instructional leader, by the Illinois State Board of Education with an Award of Excellence in the Those Who Excel Program, and by the National Association of Elementary School Principals as the National Distinguished Principal from Illinois for 1991. She received her undergraduate degree in education from Wheaton College and advanced degrees in library science (MA) and educational administration (Ed D) from Northern Illinois University.

Table of Contents

Intorduction
Put It Into Practice
Learn Lots of Sight Words Well
Read a Lot
Model Good Oral Reading
Provide Good Oral Support for Readers
Offer Pleanty of Practice
Phrased Reading
Assessing Fluency
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