Effective Reading Strategies: Teaching Children Who Find Reading Difficult

I came back to teaching after 24 years. Ideas of how to teach reading have developed since then. Effective Reading Strategies is helping me put what I know about reading into a definite plan to help my students. I think that a new plan will help me engage my students in the joy of reading.

Great book! Wonderful Appendix resources including Award-Winning books, Common Word Families, Children's magazines, internet sites, and sight word lists. A must for any reading teacher.

I often find trouble locating a book centered on EQUALLY helping early childhood teachers and elementary teachers give reading instruction ot children who approach it with difficulty. Mostly the books I find overwhelmingly focus on elementary-aged children while leaving the First, Second, and Third Graders a little out of the limelight. This book (now in its 3rd and best-yet edition) remedies that vacancy by offering a balanced approach to teaching reading that will work for struggling as well as advanced readers through MOSTLY (not all) developmentally appropriate methods. Chapters 3-5 (on preparing the reader to read) will change the way you view your instruction.

Effective Reading Strategies: Teaching Children Who Find Reading Difficult is a wonderful handbook for teachers who need ideas for those children who need extra support in learning to read. The clear writing and the many excellent research-based examples make this title one that teachers will turn to again and again. I particularly like Chapter 6, Nurturing Fluent Reading. Fluency strategies are often neglected, and can not only improve student fluency but also their comprehension. I highly recommend this book!

Dr. Rasinski's book offers a motivational read regarding effective reading strategies for all readers. He refers to many case studies on what current, effective, research proven instructional methods create the most success for struggling readers. This book would be a great read for teacher trainees working in the field of reading, university level professors looking for a text for reading remediation, and any primary level teacher. Information provided in the book is well worth the cost.