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Teaching Reading with Jamestown

Teaching Reading with Jamestown

National Edition
MHID: 0078457475 | ISBN 13: 9780078457470
Grades: 6 - 12

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  • Help new teachers organize a reading course
  • Use successful, research-based reading strategies while teaching any subject
  • Organize your Jamestown materials into an effective reading curriculum
  • Place students in the correct levels of Jamestown books
  • Teaching Reading with Jamestown provides all the support needed for the teaching of reading!

Whether you are a professional in the field of reading or an instructor whose specialization lies elsewhere, using this guide will help you maximize your students' abilities and augment their reading skills. This new reading guide will help you:

  • Construct effective three-part reading lessons
  • Use research-based strategies to improve fluency and comprehension
  • Utilize proven techniques to develop vocabulary
  • Organize and plan instruction
  • Compare your classroom goals against national standards

Includes mini-lessons that can be applied to any reading materials, additional strategies for use with your Jamestown books, graphic organizers, and a placement test to help you start students off at an appropriate reading level. The placement test was developed by Edward B. Fry, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University and author of Jamestown's Reading Improvement series and the Fry Readability Scale.

Use Teaching Reading with Jamestown to:

  • Organize your staff development programs
  • Train teachers new to the field of reading
  • Get optimal use out of your Jamestown books

All Features

Key components of reading instruction

Classroom management techniques

Lesson planning ideas

Skils and strategies minilessons to use with any reading materials

Ideas for incorporating Jamestown books into your reading class

Placement tests fit Jamestown books to students' needs

IRA/NCTE Standards for the English Language Arts

Glossary of reading terms

Graphic organizers to use with any reading materials

Teaching Reading with Jamestown

Key Components of Reading Instruction

Vocabulary Building

Memory Techniques

Vocabulary Activities

Explicit Instruction of Reading Skills and Strategies

Daily Reading

Fluency Practice

Writing

Classroom Management

Organizing Instruction

Instructional Methods

Reciprocal Teaching

Modeling

Instructional Groupings

Cooperative Learning Methods

Conferencing

Lesson Planning

Before Readng

Acquire Critical Vocabulary

Activate Prior Knowledge

Preview the Selection

Set a Purpose for Reading

During Reading

Guided Reading

Reading Arrangements

Six Active Reading Strategies

After Reading

Facilitating the Jamestown Exercises

Extending the Pre-reading Themes

Responding

Summarizing

Making Connections

Strategy Combinations

KWL: Especially for Reading Nonfiction

SQ3R: For Reading Textbooks

Story Map: For Reading Fiction

Skills and Strategies Minilessons

Monitoring Comprehension

Fix-Up Word Strategies

Context Clues

Word Parts: Prefixes and Suffixes

Predicting

QAR: Question-Answer Relationship

Main Idea and Supporting Details

Text Structures

Text Structure: Sequence (Time Order)

Text Structure: Classification

Text Structure: Cause and Effect

Text Structure: Comparison and Contrast

Summarizing

Visualizing

Reading with Jamestown

Critical Reading and The Wild Side

Five-Star Stories

Signature Reading

Best Series

Jamestown's Reading Improvement Series

Timed Readings

Six-Way Paragraphs

English, YES!

Reading Fluency

Comprehension Skills

The Contemporary Reader

WordShop

FrightWrite

Jamestown Placement Test

IRA/NCTE Standards for the English Language Arts

Glossary

Graphic Organizers

KWL Chart

Story Map

Main Ideas Map

Flow Chart

Single Cause with Multiple Effects

Cause-and-Effect Chain

Venn Diagram