"A solid resource to help teachers understand the basic foundation for literacy development through guided reading in the primary grade." —Patti Ulshafer, first-grade teacher

Develop successful readers with these strategies for before, during, and after reading.

In Teaching Kids to Read, Gail Saunders-Smith describes the cognitive processes of emergent readers and provides educators with clear guidelines for promoting reading comprehension with small groups of young learners.

A variety of exercises included helps children to locate, record, retrieve, and manipulate information from texts while enabling teachers to measure how students respond in oral, written, graphic, and three-dimensional forms.

Topics covered include:

• Aliteracy


• Coaching statements


• Elements of craft


• False positive readers


• Fresh text


• Guided reading


• Instructional practice


• Metacognition


• Phonemic awareness


• Self-monitoring


• Shared reading


• Sight words


• Study skills


• Teacher talk


• Workable words


• and more!