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Teaching Reading: A Playbook for Developing Skilled Readers Through Word Recognition and Language Comprehension
The comprehensive guide you can trust for evidence-based reading practices
It′s settled developing skilled readers can enhance students’ lives. That’s why renowned educators Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Diane Lapp wrote this resource with the urgency of a code blue in an ER—because too many children, for many reasons, struggle with learning to become strong readers.
Designed to be a one-stop shop for best practices, Teaching Reading is concise, encyclopedic, and essential. Thirteen interactive modules provide easy to read ideas to support you teaching every child to read very well. You will learn how
Focus on two critical aspects of reading—word recognition and language comprehension.
Select the best activities to support students in grades K-6 to learn letters and sound relationships.
Provide developing readers with the most effective oral, written, and reading experiences.
Recharge your confidence and craft with uplifting new research findings from neuroscience, cognitive science, and child development.
Clear up confusions about phonics progressions, reading fluency, morphology, text selection, grammar, and more.
Develop background knowledge, vocabulary, and comprehension instruction.
Be up to date on how to help students attain deeper levels of comprehension by applying Theory of Mind and other cutting-edge ideas.
Reading is a thrilling but complex process. It involves a heady mix of skills, schema, self-concept, and social dimensions. To give all students the chance to reap its rewards, we need a go-big kind of resource. This is it.
It′s settled developing skilled readers can enhance students’ lives. That’s why renowned educators Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Diane Lapp wrote this resource with the urgency of a code blue in an ER—because too many children, for many reasons, struggle with learning to become strong readers.
Designed to be a one-stop shop for best practices, Teaching Reading is concise, encyclopedic, and essential. Thirteen interactive modules provide easy to read ideas to support you teaching every child to read very well. You will learn how
Focus on two critical aspects of reading—word recognition and language comprehension.
Select the best activities to support students in grades K-6 to learn letters and sound relationships.
Provide developing readers with the most effective oral, written, and reading experiences.
Recharge your confidence and craft with uplifting new research findings from neuroscience, cognitive science, and child development.
Clear up confusions about phonics progressions, reading fluency, morphology, text selection, grammar, and more.
Develop background knowledge, vocabulary, and comprehension instruction.
Be up to date on how to help students attain deeper levels of comprehension by applying Theory of Mind and other cutting-edge ideas.
Reading is a thrilling but complex process. It involves a heady mix of skills, schema, self-concept, and social dimensions. To give all students the chance to reap its rewards, we need a go-big kind of resource. This is it.
304 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 29, 2022
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Douglas Fisher
510 books35 followersDouglas Fisher, Ph.D., is an educator and Professor of Educational Leadership at San Diego State University and a teacher leader at Health Sciences High & Middle College.
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March 30, 2025
I really enjoyed how this book was organized. Having some experience with secondary teaching of reading, TESOL and phonics instruction, this book filled in the pieces in between. Great refresher but also something I could see being used by teachers to review their practices and get new ideas for teaching reading skills. I picked it up to learn more about my child’s reading journey. Very helpful!
August 23, 2023
A very useful text for beginning teachers, those who coach teachers, or those who question some of the “science of reading” tenets. I appreciate the authors’ in depth descriptions of each aspect of Scarborough’s Reading Rope.
August 4, 2025
With the new legislation about reading instruction, this could be a good supplement for secondary programs so preservice teachers understand what their students went through/what legislation is requiring
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