Explaining Reading: A Resource for Explicit Teaching of the Common Core Standards

by Gerald G. Duffy EdD

This trusted teacher resource and widely adopted text presents effective ways to demystify essential reading skills and strategies for K-8 students who are struggling. It has been fully revised to focus on the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English language arts. Following a concise introduction to the CCSS and explicit teaching, 30 engaging examples show how to be explicit when teaching each Literature, Informational Text, and Foundational Skills standard. Grounded in authentic reading tasks that teachers can adapt for their classrooms, the examples guide teachers to differentiate instruction, model and scaffold learning, assess student skills, and align reading instruction with Common Core writing standards.
 
New to This Edition
*Significantly revised and restructured with a CCSS focus.
*The teaching examples are all new or revised.
*Provides practical ways to develop "close reading" of text.
*Incorporates recent research on authentic tasks and adaptive teaching.

Genres: Education, Teaching, Nonfiction

275 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 4, 2003

Reviews

[Alison · Rating 4 out of 5]

Duffy presents some really simple, useful strategies to help struggling readers/students succeed. Even though he is focused on grade school children, he provides examples of how to adjust the techniques/scaffolding for middle and high school students. I have a feeling that I will be revisiting this book throughout the school year.

[Sharmin · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great book to help you teach basic grammar concepts such as looking for context clues or the main idea. It gives you detailed lesson plan ideas to scaffold students into becoming independent learners.

[Lydia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Duffy pulls apart different components of explaining reading and makes teaching using different strategies make sense. The way he presented scaffolded approaches is exemplary. The short, sweet examples are quickly digestible and easily implemented.

[Amber Kuehler · Rating 5 out of 5]

GREAT book if you're looking for activities to do with your children or students learning to read. I loved how he explained things like they were "secrets" to kids. Definitely a book I will return to in the future.

[Laura Tortorelli · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book is WRONG. WRONG, WRONG, WRONG about phonics, sight words, and word knowledge. Really good on the comprehension stuff, but so ignorant and WRONG about how kids learn to read in the first place! Teachers beware!

[Melissa · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book has some good strategies for teaching the students the "secrets" of reading.