The Threads of Reading

The Threads of Reading
Author: Karen Tankersley
Publisher: ASCD
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2003-11-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1416612602

How can teachers make sure that all students gain the reading skills they need to be successful in school and in life? In this book, Karen Tankersley describes the six foundational "threads" that students need to study in order to become effective readers: phonemic awareness, phonics and decoding, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, and higher-order processing. For each area, the author explains how students acquire the reading skills they need and offers a series of skill-building strategies and activities that teachers can use in the classroom. Although reading is perhaps most intensely taught in the kindergarten and 1st-grade classrooms, Tankersley emphasizes that helping students become lifelong readers is a task for all teachers, including content-area teachers in middle and high schools. The Threads of Reading addresses key questions about literacy, such as * What makes a difference in reading achievement? * How much reading time is enough? * How can teachers use writing to build reading skills? * How can teachers help students make meaning from their reading? The strategies in this book address many situations, from individual instruction to small- or large-group instruction, from kindergarten to high school. Teachers will appreciate the multitude of activities provided, and administrators will learn to better evaluate the reading programs in place in their districts and schools. Grounded in both research and "teacher lore" from actual classrooms, this book is a solid guide to helping students become lifelong readers. Note: This product listing is for the Adobe Acrobat (PDF) version of the book.

Threads of Reading

Threads of Reading
Author: Karen Tankersley
Publisher: ASCD
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2003
Genre: Education
ISBN: 087120794X

A K-12 guide distills reading skills down to six fundamentals, helping to pinpoint reading problems and remedy them with the appropriate strategies and activities.

Blue Print Reading

Blue Print Reading
Author: Edwin Mather Wyatt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 96
Release: 1920
Genre: Blueprints
ISBN:

Reading Work

Reading Work
Author: Mary Ellen Belfiore
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 508
Release: 2004-02-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135622736

Reading Work: Literacies in the New Workplace explores changing understandings of literacy and its place in contemporary workplace settings. It points to new questions and dilemmas to consider in planning and teaching workplace education. By taking a social perspective on literacies in the workplace, this book challenges traditional thinking about workplace literacy as functional skills, and enables readers to see the complexity of literacy practices and their embeddedness in culture, knowledge, and action. A mixture of ethnographic studies, analysis, and personal reflections makes these ideas accessible and relevant to a wide range of readers in the fields of adult literacy and language education and helps to bridge the divide between theory and practice in the field of workplace education. Reading Work: Literacies in the New Workplace features: *four distinct but related ethnographies of literacy use in contemporary workplaces; *a social practice view of literacy brought to the workplace; *collaborative research undertaken by experienced workplace educators and academics working in the areas of adult literacy and second language learning; *implications chapters for both practice and theory--presented not as a series of steps but rather as reflections by seasoned educators on shared dilemmas; and *engaging, accessible writing that encourages workplace practitioners to read, learn from, and do their own research. This book is an important resource for practicing workplace educators, trainers, and instructors; academics who teach workplace educators; unionists, policymakers, human resource managers, supervisors, or quality coordinators who believe education can make a difference and are interested in seeing maximum results from workplace learning. Visit the In-Sites Research Group Web site: http://www.nald.ca/insites/.

Java Threads

Java Threads
Author: Scott Oaks
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Total Pages: 350
Release: 1999
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781565924185

Threads (Computer programs).

The Ruby Programming Language

The Ruby Programming Language
Author: David Flanagan
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2008-01-25
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0596520166

A guide to Ruby programming covers such topics as datatypes and objects, expressions, classes and modules, control structures, and the Ruby platform.