Reading Reminders: Tools, Tips, and Techniques

by Jim Burke

Do you have a minute? That's how quickly this book will help you improve your students' reading skills. Designed to be read on the run and make every minute count in your classroom, Reading Reminders features Jim Burke's one hundred best techniques for teaching reading, complete with tools and tips on how to implement them.

Jim wrote this book to help teachers like himself whose often large and always diverse classrooms contain a wide range of reading abilities and needs. All of the strategies have been tested and tested again with his students, and each one has achieved significant gains in student performance, confidence, and engagement. Together, the reminders will challenge your best students and support struggling ones. This book will help you:

teach students to read a variety of types of texts, including websites, tests, literature, and textbooks use a wide range of teaching and reading strategies based on current reading research anchor your teaching in state and national reading standards establish and maintain a comprehensive reading program that includes Sustained Silent Reading and direct instruction plan your lessons, select your texts, and assess students' learning with tools and techniques specifically designed for those purposes improve your students' ability to discuss and understand what they read develop a community of reflective readers within your classroom increase the amount of writing your students do.

Genres: Teaching, Education, Nonfiction, Professional Development, Reference, Adult

First published October 9, 2000

About the author

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A longtime English teacher, Jim Burke is the author of more than 20 books and senior consultant for the Holt McDougal Literature program. Jim has received several awards, including the 2000 NCTE Exemplary English Leadership Award. In 2009, he created the English Companion Ning―the largest online community of English teachers in the world. More recently, Jim has served on the AP English Course and Exam Review Commission and the PARCC Consortium.

Reviews

[Robin · Rating 5 out of 5]

This one of my favorite go-to books! Filled with practical ideas and an easy-to-digest format, Jim Burke hits the mark with this book. I've shared multiple copies with colleagues over the years.

[Sirpa Grierson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Practical reading srategies and ideas that teachers can incorporate into daily instruction. While there is nothing earthshakingly new here, Burke does an admirable job of pulling together all of his best lesson ideas for improving comprehension. I particularly like the fact that you can us this as a reference book, as a quick "grab-and-go" because of the self-contained concepts.

[John · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this book for a graduate level class in education. As someone new to teaching, I found this book full of some very useable ideas. I used it numerous times while creating unit and lesson plans for my education classes. I am sure I will use it again in the future!

[C. Rey · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is a fantastic reference tool! I found it difficult to read for long quantities, because of the formatting (bullet points). But I am eager to have this as a resource when lesson planning or brainstorming how to help students with specific reading strategies.

[Cat · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book provides some excellent ideas to help struggling readers. I have used it often. The ideas are practical and easy to use.

[Valerie · Rating 3 out of 5]

There are some useful techniques in this book for including reading in all subjects.

[Christy · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Autumn Sanders]

Getting ready to read, I'll let you know!