Publisher's Synopsis
This newly revised and updated Fourth Edition of THE READING TEACHER’S BOOK OF LISTS places at your fingertips over 190 of the most used and useful lists for developing instructional materials and planning lessons for elementary and secondary students.
For quick access, the lists are organized into 15 sections, from "Phonics," "Useful Word" and "Vocabulary" through "Comprehension," "Assessment" and "References," each brimming with examples, key words, teaching ideas and activities you can use as is or easily adapt to meet your students’ needs.
Moreover, all of the lists are printed in a big 8–1/4" x 11" spiral–bound format ready to be photocopied as many times as you need them for use with individual students, small groups, or an entire class!
You’ll find over 40 new lists in the Fourth Edition, making it even more helpful than previous editions.
For example, there are completely new lists on ...
- Vowel Sounds
- Suggested Phonics Teaching Order
- The Final "E" Rule
- Reading Math
- Books for Developing and Reluctant Readers
- Nonreversible Word Pairs
- Multiple Intelligences and Reading
- Comprehension Strategies
- Anagrams
- Speech Pronunciation
- Children’s Humor: What Kids Say
- Teaching with Newspapers
- Activities for Tutors
- 50 Reading Tips for Parents
- Rubrics for Writing
- Books without Words
- Oxymorons
- Ways to Define a Word
- Emoticons
- Internet Search Engines for Educators
- Web Sites for Reading, Writing & Literature
- Consonant Sounds
- Prefixes and Suffixes
- Children’s Book Awards
- Book–List Collections
- All–Time Favorite Books
- Acronyms and Initializations
- Story Starters
- Student/Group Project guide
- 100 Ways to Praise
- Games and Methods for Teaching
- Graphic Organizers
- Analogies
- Riddles and Tongue Twisters
- Portmanteau Words
- Sentence Tunes
- Sound Awareness Books
- Phonics Example Words
- Homophones
- The First 1,000 Instant Words
- Homographs and Heteronyms
- Synonyms and antonyms
- Spelling Demons
- Compound Words
- Metaphors and Similes
- The Readability Graph
- Greek and Latin Roots
- Literary Terms
- Proofreading Checklists
- Interest Inventories
- Test–Taking Strategies
- Proverbs and Common Word Idioms
- Book Report Alternatives
In short, THE READING TEACHER’S BOOK OF LISTS, Fourth Edition gives you an unparalleled source of timely, practical information for all aspects of reading instruction that might otherwise take many years and much effort to acquire!
