Teaching Reading in Middle School

Laura Robb

Scholastic Inc., 2000 - Education - 318 pages

Get the "big picture" of teaching reading in the middle school, including research, as well as the practical details you need to help every stydent become a better reader. Veteran teacher Laura Robb shares how to: teach reading strategies across the curriculum, present mini-lessons that deepen students' knowledge of how specific reading strategies work; help kids apply the strategies through guided practice; support struggling readers with a plan of action that improves their reading motivation; and much more.

About the author

Author, teacher, coach, and speaker, LAURA ROBB has completed 43 years of teaching in grades 4-8. She presently coaches teachers in reading/ writing workshop at Powhatan School in Virginia and coaches teachers in grades K-8 in Staunton, Virginia, Long Island, and Ann Arbor, Michigan, and West Nyack, New York.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Teaching Reading in Middle School; Great Source Professional Development; Professional Bks; Theory and Practice
• Author: Laura Robb
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Scholastic Inc., 2000
• ISBN: 0590685600, 9780590685603
• Length: 318 pages
• Subjects: Education / General; Education / Schools / Levels / Elementary; Education / Teaching / Subjects / Reading & Phonics; Language Arts & Disciplines / General