Raising reading achievement in middle and high schools : five simple-to-follow strategies / / Elaine K. McEwan ; acquisitions editor Robert D. Clouse ; production editor Melanie Birdsall ; cover designer Anthony Paular

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910816660303321
• Autore: McEwan-Adkins Elaine K. <1941->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, , 2007; ©2007
• ISBN: 1-4833-6181-0; 1-4833-6398-8
• Edizione: [Second edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 p.)
• Disciplina: 428.4071
• Soggetti: Reading (Secondary); Reading (Middle school); Middle school principals; High school principals
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Teaching for Learning Tips""; ""Preface""; ""A Change in Focus""; ""The Goals of This Book""; ""Who This Book is for""; ""What This Book is Not""; ""Overview of the Contents""; ""A New Feature""; ""The Challenge""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Author""; ""Chapter 1 - Reading Achievement: Where Do we Stand?""; ""Raising Achievement Expectations""; ""The State of Reading Achievement in the Nation""; ""The Response of Educators""; ""The State of Reading Achievement in the States""; ""Roadblocks to Raising Achievement in Middle and High Schools""; ""The Responsibility of School Leaders""""Reflection and Discussion Questions""; ""Chapter 2 - Focus on Changing What You can Change""; ""Change the Educational Paradigm""; ""Change How Goals are Set""; ""Change How Teachers Teach""; ""Change the Curriculum and How it is Chosen""; ""Change the Alignment of the Curriculum""; ""Change the Amount of Time Allocated to Reading Instruction""; ""Change Where Strategic Reading Instruction is Provided""; ""Change How Learning is ; Assessed""; ""Change Expectations for Students""; ""Change How Professional Development is Provided""; ""Reflection and Discussion Questions""""Chapter 3 - Teach the Students Who canâ€?t Read How to Read""; ""How Children Learn to Read: a Short Lesson""; ""Failing to Learn""; ""Programs to Remediate Struggling Secondary Students""; ""Find the Students in Special Education Who canâ€?t Read and Teach Them to Read""; ""Reflection and Discussion Questions""; ""Chapter 4 - Teach Every Student How to Read to Learn""; ""Reading to Learn and Cognitive Strategies""; ""The Strategic Teacher""; ""How to Teach Cognitive Strategies""; ""Reciprocal Teaching""; ""Transactional Strategies Instruction""; ""Reading to Learn and Vocabulary Development""""Reading to Learn and Knowledge Acquisition""; ""How We can Engage More Students in Reading to Learn""; ""Cognitive Strategy Instruction at Alief Hastings High School""; ""Reflection and Discussion Questions""; ""Chapter 5 - Motivate Every Student to Read in the Zone""; ""The Value of Reading a Lot""; ""Reading in the Zone""; ""The Importance of Reading Challenging Fiction and Nonfiction""; ""The Importance of Accountability""; ""Portfolios""; ""Reading Journals""; ""Book Reviews""; ""Essays""; ""Personal Anthologies""; ""Every-Pupil Response Activities""""Motivating Students to Read a Lot""; ""Engaging Students in Reading""; ""The Right Kind of Teachers""; ""Skills to Read with Confidence and Success""; ""The Right Kind of Books""; ""Opportunities for Directed and Focused Silent Reading during the School Day""; ""The Promotion of Books by Every Teacher""; ""Superior Library-Media Services""; ""Reflection and Discussion Questions""; ""Chapter 6 - Create a Reading Culture in Your School""; ""Pay Attention to the Basic Beliefs and Core Values of Stakeholders""; ""Determine What Needs to be Changed""; ""Identify the Roadblocks to Change""
• Sommario/riassunto: <font size=""2"">This second edition enhances the ""five big ideas"" for raising reading achievement with seven cognitive strategies and more than twenty ""teaching for learning"" tips for daily instruction.</font>