Your biggest challenge—and your biggest reward—is making sure all your students achieve. Nothing is better than the joy you share with a child you’ve helped overcome difficulties and become a reader.
It’s why you became a teacher.
But even the best teacher needs some expert advice every now and then. Resources from the International Reading Association are here to help—with research-based ideas for teaching striving readers, assessment that supports their learning, differentiating instruction, and implementing Response to Intervention.
Check out these new and bestselling titles, all designed to build success for your struggling learners…and for you.
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Successful Approaches to RTI
Collaborative Practices for Improving K–12 Literacy
Editors: Marjorie Y. Lipson, Karen K. Wixson
What approaches to RTI have a proven track record? What evidence supports models that help all learners achieve? What do successful approaches look like in real schools? In this must-have resource, you’ll find frameworks for RTI that work in today’s classrooms.
RTI in Literacy—Responsive and Comprehensive
Editor: Peter H. Johnston
Find out what’s really needed for RTI to help children grow as readers, writers, and learners. Included here are research-based strategies, support for professional development, and a look at how to incorporate RTI within existing school structures.
Essential Readings on Struggling Learners
Editor: Richard L. Allington
With this selection of 20 articles, elementary educators will find inspiration and the tools they need to help all learners succeed. Allington explores instructional planning, assessment of students and programs, and supporting struggling readers’ comprehension.
Small-Group Reading Instruction
A Differentiated Teaching Model for Beginning and Struggling Readers,
Second Edition
Beverly Tyner
Classroom tested and research based, the Small-Group Differentiated Teaching Model provides effective reading instruction to meet the needs of each classroom’s broad range of learners. This new edition of IRA’s bestseller includes lesson plans, assessments, ideas for classroom management, a resource CD, and much more!
Also available:
A companion DVD series that brings the small-group model to life!
Small-Group Reading Instruction
DVD Training Series for Beginning Readers
Revised and Updated
Building Struggling Students' Higher Level Literacy
Practical Ideas, Powerful Solutions
Editors: James L. Collins, Thomas G. Gunning
Literacy is more than the ability to decode words or read aloud comfortably, though these are often the tasks we focus on with struggling learners. But by teaching these learners higher order skills, we can help them build knowledge, deepen comprehension, and become truly literate.
4 Powerful Strategies for Struggling Readers, Grades 3–8
Small Group Instruction That Improves Comprehension
Lois A. Lanning
Find out how to support students’ reading comprehension by teaching strategies that highly effective readers use: summarizing, creating meaningful connections, self-regulating, and inferring. With a hands-on approach, this book describes specific teaching techniques and gives detailed lesson examples for reading instruction across content areas.
Copublished with Corwin Press
Response to Intervention
A Framework for Reading Educators
Editors: Douglas Fuchs, Lynn S. Fuchs, Sharon Vaughn
Leading experts in literacy and special education describe a three-tier RTI model that begins with effective instruction for all children, moves to preventive tutoring, and concludes with new thinking about special education. Key to the approach is using assessment to identify students at risk, monitor progress, and guide instruction.
Standards for the Assessment of Reading and Writing
Revised Edition
Here, 11 core standards for assessment are presented and explained, and a helpful glossary makes this document suitable not only for educators but for parents, policymakers, school board members, and other stakeholders. Case studies of national tests and smaller scale classroom assessments are used to highlight how assessments in use today do or do not meet the standards.
Copublished with the National Council of Teachers of English