Reading Reminders: Tools, Tips, and TechniquesDo 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:
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WHAT TEACHERS MUST DO Establish a Reading Culture | 1 |
Use Sustained Silent Reading SSR | 4 |
Read Aloud 8 | 8 |
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