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 40 Reading Intervention Strategies for K-6 Students: Research-Based Support for RTI
Publisher: Solution Tree, 2009
ISBN 978-1-934009-50-5
Elaine K. McEwan
$34.95 paperback
352 pages
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This well-rounded collection of research-based reading intervention strategies will support and inform your RTI efforts. The book includes teacher-friendly sample lesson plans and miniroutines that are easy to understand and adapt. Citations and descriptions of current research help educators substantiate their strategy choices.
Most educators are deeply concerned with literacy levels in their schools. Everyone is feeling the relentless pressure of high-stakes tests and the need to provide the highest levels of instruction. Specifically, this book is intended for elementary teachers of all kinds and levels, literacy coaches, interventionists, speech pathologists, special education and ELL teachers, Title I administrators, and college and university professors.
Many of the strategies motivate average and above-average students as well as scaffold struggling readers. Maximize the power of these interventions by using them across a grade-level team or schoolwide.
 Teach Them ALL to Read:
Catching Kids Before They Fall Through the Cracks,
Second Edition
Thousand Oaks, California:
Corwin Press, July 2009.
Elaine K. McEwan
$35.95 paperback, $75.95 hardcover
248 pages
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Provide effective reading instruction for every student in your classroom and schoolwide!
To successfully teach reading, teachers have to first believe that all children can learn to read--and then they have to turn that belief into a reality. In this thoroughly updated and revised version of her best-selling book, Elaine K. McEwan guides educators through the challenging but crucial work of teaching every child how to read.
Written for all teachers as well as administrators, this resource covers strategies for nine essential components of effective reading instruction: phonemic awareness, phonics, spelling, fluency, developing a reading culture, providing opportunities to read, writing, word knowledge, and comprehension. This second edition features:
- The most up-to-date research in reading instruction
- Effective instructional practices and strategies
- Brief vignettes and graphic organizers that illustrate and summarize key concepts
- A comprehensive case study of one district's remarkable success
This resource reveals precisely how educators in successful schools are teaching students to read--and how all educators can achieve the same results in their schools!
 Ten Traits of Highly Effective Schools:
Raising the Achievement Bar for All Students
Thousand Oaks, California:
Corwin Press, 2008.
Elaine K. McEwan
$33.95 each
248 pages
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This invaluable resource identifies the distinguishing qualities and unique characteristics of schools that help all students make outstanding gains in performance. Each chapter offers a comprehensive description of a research-based trait and examines its impact on student achievement. Featuring a "10 Traits Audit" for use by schools or districts, this book provides principals and administrators with:
- Tools and processes to facilitate the development of each trait
- Snapshots of each trait in actual schools and districts
- Reflections from teachers and administrators who have helped create effective schools
- Observations on the school improvement process from noted thinkers, theorists, and scholars
- Examples of documents, forms, and resources used in effective schools
By nurturing these traits in their schools, educational leaders can build coherent instructional programs and create schools of equity and excellence.
 The Reading Puzzle Series
Thousand Oaks, California:
Corwin Press, 2008.
Elaine K. McEwan
$15.95 each
98 pages
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The Reading Puzzle series contains 10 books for Kindergarten through Grade 8 centered on the skills identified by the National Reading Panel as critical to reading success. It provides instructional tools teachers can use immediately as part of the reading curriculum. Each of the books in the series helps unlock one piece of the reading puzzle and contains standards-based, ready-to-use activities that can be used to supplement any reading program.
As puzzle pieces fit together to complete a picture, reading skills are dependent upon one another to make reading meaningful for students. The Reading Puzzle series helps you organize instruction to better develop students’ core reading skills—including phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension—to make them successful readers.
These activity books make it easy to put McEwan's highly-successful strategies, outlined in her best-seller Teach Them ALL to Read, into practice. The strategies and activities will support struggling readers and enhance existing skill to encourage improvement in all students' reading skills.
 40 Ways to Support Struggling Readers in Content Classrooms, Grades 6-12
Thousand Oaks, California: Corwin Press, 2007.
Elaine K. McEwan
200 pages
Paperback $30.95
ISBN D7525-978-1-4129-5306-4
Hardcover $67.95
ISBN D7525-978-1-4129-5205-7
Description:
Help for students who are overwhelmed, feel confused, can't remember, lack language skills, or just don’t get it.
In today's era of accountability, teachers are expected to help all secondary students understand complex concepts and ideas 
Chosen by the National Association of Secondary School Principals as the first selection for its NASSP Principal's Book Club. |
and demonstrate proficiency on high-stakes tests. To promote success for struggling readers in all content areas, expert educator Elaine K. McEwan offers 40 user-friendly and easy-to-implement strategies in an invaluable text that includes three tables of contents (traditional, topical, and problem-solving) formatted for quick and easy reference.
Each of the 40 research-based and classroom-tested techniques features:
- An intriguing quotation or definition to grab your attention
- A brief description of the method and suggestions for implementation
- Recommended resources to gain a more in-depth understanding of the method
- Research citations to demonstrate the power of the method to get results
Offering cross-references and advance organizers throughout, this book provides the specific yet comprehensive information you need to support all students with reading difficulties.
Raising Reading Achievement in Middle and High Schools: Five Simple-to-Follow Strategies, Second Edition
Thousand Oaks, California: Corwin Press, 2006.
Elaine K. McEwan
224 pages, 7" x 10"
Paperback: $32.95, D6820-1-4129-2435-9
Hardcover: $71.95, D6820-4129-2434-0
Description:
This revised second edition focuses on broadening and enhancing the "five big ideas" for winning the battle against illiteracy, with reflection and discussion questions for reinforcement. With new research and programs designed for adolescent learners, this update includes new material on the seven cognitive strategies of highly effective readers and more than 20 "teaching for learning" tips to infuse into daily content instruction. This indispensable guide helps educators: - Understand the current state of reading achievement
- Alter the instructional planning and delivery system
- Motivate all students to read and teach them how to read to learn
- Create reading cultures in schools
How to Survive and Thrive in the First Three Weeks of School
Elaine K. McEwan
Thousand Oaks, California: Corwin Press, 2006.
Library Edition (1412904536) List $75.95
Paperback (1412904544) List $35.95.
Description:
Master the 3 + 3 = 33 equation for successful first days at school-at any grade level!
Research shows that time invested during the first three weeks of school to teach Routines, Rubrics, and Rules-the three R’s-leads to higher student achievement throughout the remaining 33 weeks of school, or 3 + 3 = 33.
 This wonderfully practical and effective new book from bestselling author Elaine McEwan will help any teacher through those critical weeks and show how truly "with-it" teachers (WITs) can manage more easily the three critical facets of every teacher’s day: classroom management and organization, student engagement, and time management.
WITs from K-12 classrooms share their specific personal routines, rubrics and rules to help you survive and thrive in those first three weeks of school, including
- Designing and organizing your classroom to support learning
- Teaching routines, rubrics, and rules to maximize learning time
- Creating organizational, academic, and social routines
- Choosing rules and rewards to build character and motivation
- Using the "With-It" teacher list, including attention-getters, noise-breakers, timesavers, routines, and homework helpers
With the power of 3 + 3 = 33, and the secrets of WITs, you can chart a sure-footed course for those all-important first weeks of school, and help guide your students successfully through the school year!
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