Product Details

• Author: Janet Allen
• Year: 2000
• Grade Range: 4-12

• Media: 312 pp/paper
• ISBN: 978-157110-319-2
• Item No.: WEB-0319

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?

In Yellow Brick Roads, 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:

• understanding what gets in the way of reading;
• rethinking and reorganizing time and resources;
• providing support for content literacy;
• developing assessment practices that inform instruction;
• supporting reading as a path to writing instruction;
• establishing professional communities to support individual and school-wide needs-based research.

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.

Yellow Brick Roads 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.

Table of Contents

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Contents
1. Looking for the Wizard
2. Places for Wonderful Ideas: Establishing Environments That Support Reading Diversity
3. What Gets in the Way of Reading Success?
4. Life Is Short - Eat Dessert First! The Value of Read-Aloud Beyond the Primary Years
5. Shared Reading as the Heart of Reading Instruction
6. Guided Reading: "On the Run" Strategies Toward Independence
7. Creating (and Living with) Independent Readers
8. Organizing for Choice: Supporting Diversity in Reading, Writing, and Learning
9. "Am I the Only One Who Can't Make a K-W-L Work?" Literacy Paths to Content Knowledge
10. Help for the Most "Tangled" Readers
11. Reading the Way to Writing
12. Full Circle: Assessing, Evaluating, and Starting Again
13. Living the Professional Life
Appendix A: Resources
Appendix B: Literature Supporting Content Literacy
Appendix C: Web Sites Supporting Lesson Plans and Classroom Instruction
Appendix D: Books on Tape
Appendix E: Short Story Collections Supporting Read-Aloud, Shared, Guided, and Independent Reading
Appendix F: Poetry Collections
Appendix G: "The Day of the Hunter" by Edward M. Holmes
Appendix H: Forms
References
Index

Janet Allen
Janet Allen is an international consultant recognized for her comprehensive work in reading education. After teaching reading and English for nearly twenty years in Maine, Janet relocated to the University of Central Florida.
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