Overview
The Joyful Reading Resource Kit
All children deserve a chance to learn to love reading. The Joyful Reading Resource Kit offers teachers an impressive array of tools, resources, and activities for getting students at all levels excited about reading while developing their proficiency in comprehension. Serving as a companion to Joyful Reading, the book offers teachers everything they need to implement the Schoolwide Enrichment Model in Reading (SEM-R), a differentiated instructional approach that encourages students to read independently for a period of time each day on books of their own choice. Implemented in three phases, the SEM-R program has been shown by research to improve fluency and comprehension among at-risk students. The Joyful Reading Resource Kit includes:
- Reproducible "bookmarks" for scaffolding students in critical thinking and comprehension activities
- Extensive lists of recommended books
- Tips for supporting students in selection of appropriately challenging books
- Materials for managing independent reading in the classroom, including log sheets, five-minute conference tips, writing prompts, assessment rubrics, and a reading growth chart
- Exciting enrichment resources to develop students' reading interests, including a survey form, online books, Web-based activities, and Renzulli Learning resources
- Hands-On Creativity activities that help students elaborate ideas, develop fluency, brainstorm, and much more
- Reproducible X-ploration projects on varied topics that students can pursue independently at their own pace
The Joyful Reading Resource Kit is a vital compendium not only for classroom teachers but also for parents and after-school educators who wish to support students in discovering the rich rewards and delights of reading.
The book, The Joyful Reading Resource Kit: Teaching Tools, Hands-On Activities, and Enrichment Resources, Grades K-8 [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN#9780470391884 in Paperback by Sally M. Reis may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.
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