Evidence-Based Instruction in Reading: A Professional Development Guide to Phonics - Softcover

Learn to collaborate to assess and enhance your current comprehension practices! Literacy experts, Timothy Rasinski and Nancy Padak explore five of the major components essential to creating an effective literacy program and present teachers with friendly tips and strategies to implement at their own school. The new series, Evidence-Based Instruction in Reading is a five part professional development program designed to help teachers meet the literacy instruction guidelines as identified by the National Reading Panel (2000). Each of the five books in the series focuses on one key component: phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension and offers recommendations for incorporating appropriate reading materials, fostering productive home-school connections, and promoting a desire for students to learn to read and write throughout the five part series. Making this the perfect professional development resource for teachers in the elementary classroom!

Learn to enhance your assessment and teaching of Phonics!

 

Finally teachers have access to a professional development series, Evidence-Based Instruction in Reading, written specifically to guide them in sharpening their understanding of the five key components to Reading First–phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. This book focuses on phonics, but each volume in the five-part series addresses one key component and presents friendly tips and strategies that teachers can take right into the classroom.

 

How to make Phonics work for you!

• Consider recommendations for incorporating appropriate reading materials, fostering productive home—school connections, and promoting students’ desire to learn to read and write.
• Read about the findings of current key research studies and learn about their implications for classroom practice.
• Discover how to evaluate your current practices and create concrete plans for change.
• Start a learning community or book club and share your knowledge with colleagues–Book Club Ideas are included as an appendix.
• Access useful resources and links to extend and enrich your own learning beyond the classroom.

 

Teachers rave about A Professional Development Guide to Phonics!

“This book is terrific–it provides very workable instructional activities and  routines for making phonics instruction work.  I have tried these with my own students and they work–my children are leaning phonics and they are loving words.”    

–Tracy L. Foreman, Literacy Specialist & Reading Recovery Teacher, Kent, Ohio.

 

“There is no guesswork involved! This looks like pages from what could be ‘Phonics for Dummies’ and we need it. These are essential skills and teachers must have a clear understanding of them.”

--- Cathy Taylor, Reading First literacy coach, Lumpkin, Georgia

 

Also available in the Evidence-Based Instruction in Reading series:

A Professional Development Guide to Phonemic Awareness   © 2008 ISBN: 0-205-45628-6

A Professional Development Guide to Vocabulary   © 2008 ISBN: 0-205-45631-6

A Professional Development Guide to Fluency   © 2008 ISBN: 0-205-45629-4

A Professional Development Guide to Comprehension   © 2008 ISBN: 0-205-45627-8