Becoming a Great Teacher of Reading
Achieving High Rapid Reading Gains With Powerful, Differentiated Strategies

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Marie Carbo - National Reading Styles Institute, Syosset, NY

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Differentiation & Multiple Intelligences | Learning Disabilities | Literacy, K-12

August 2007 | 248 pages | Corwin

Use this "failure-free" approach to improve test scores and help all students enjoy reading!

Are you looking for strategies that make learning to read easier and more fun for your students while bringing about significant increases in their performance results? Literacy expert Marie Carbo pairs identifying each learner's unique reading style with a wide range of differentiated strategies to help all learners experience greater reading success.

Using these research-based methods, both novice and experienced teachers can increase reading achievement with all learners, including those who are at-risk, older, or have special needs, as well as English Language Learners. The author offers practical assistance for implementing strategies that meet the requirements of NCLB, Title I, Reading First, and many state initiatives. This teacher-friendly resource includes recommendations for:

Closing the academic gap by focusing on learning strengths
Increasing readers' confidence and creativity
Accommodating students with special needs
Using reading labs with older students

A powerful tool for nurturing a love of reading, Becoming a Great Teacher of Reading not only strengthens students' reading comprehension and increases their reading motivation and enjoyment, but also helps ensure their continuing academic success.

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Acknowledgments

About the Author

Introduction

1. Believe All Students Can Learn

2. Understand 12 Guiding Principles

3. Focus on Comprehension and Enjoyment

4. Identify Natural Strengths

5. Teach to Natural Strengths

6. Use the Continuum of Assisted Reading Methods

7. Use the Carbo Recording Method

8. Provide Opportunities for Active Learning

9. Design Student-Responsive Environments

10. Reduce Visual Dyslexia

11. Accommodate Students With Special Needs

12. Prepare Students for Tests

Epilogue. Becoming a Great Teacher of Reading

Appendix A. Glossary

Appendix B. U.S. Reading Achievement

Appendix C. Reading Styles Research

Appendix D. Learning Styles Research

Appendix E. Reading Style Inventory

References

Index

Key features

Offers research-based classroom strategies based on identifying and teaching to students' natural strengths
Incorporates methods that have produced high reading gains among both fluent and low-performing readers
Explains how to implement strategies that have been identified by the U.S. Department of Education as meeting the requirements of NCLB, Title I, Reading First, as well as many state initiatives
Shows how strategies can help reduce discipline problems and reading anxieties and increase confidence and creativity
Includes specific strategies for at-risk readers, older readers, diverse readers, and all learners who can benefit from a "failure-free learning" approach to reading instruction

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