Yellow Brick Roads

<p>Do you spend your days working with students who struggle to comprehend reading in literacy and content classes? Are you looking for a way to establish comprehensive literacy instruction in your school or classroom so all students receive support in becoming competent and confident readers?</p><p>In <i><b>Yellow Brick Roads: Shared and Guided Paths to Independent Reading 4-12</b></i> Janet Allen offers research-based methods for helping teachers move toward these goals. This book provides research practical methods detailed strategies and resources for read-aloud shared guided and independent reading. In addition Janet outlines solutions for many of the literacy dilemmas that teachers face every day:</p><ul> <li>Understanding what gets in the way of reading</li> <li>Rethinking and reorganizing time and resources</li> <li>Providing support for content literacy</li> <li>Developing assessment practices that inform instruction</li> <li>Supporting reading as a path to writing instruction</li> <li>Establishing professional communities to support individual and school-wide needs-based research</li> </ul><p>The appendixes include graphic organizers to support strategy lessons suggestions of titles for building classroom libraries as well as web sites and professional resources that support the teaching of reading.</p><p><i><b>Yellow Brick Roads</b> </i>will give you rich ideas detailed strategies and literature support for implementing those strategies. At a time when many are looking for that elusive wizard to solve students' reading problems this book helps you create your own paths to effective literacy environments.</p>