Artfully Teaching the Science of Reading
by Chase Young, David Paige, and Timothy Rasinski
This inviting book is a bridge between two major strands of reading instruction that are often held in opposition: the science of reading and artful approaches to teaching reading. Although the current climate of literacy instruction positions these approaches as diametrically opposed, the authors Young, Rasinski, and Paige describe how teachers can use the science of reading to engage students in artful, engaging, and authentic instruction. The authors reveal how effective teaching is a dynamic process that requires agency and creativity and show how teachers make artful shifts based on the needs of students in specific contexts. Chapters include a range of examples and explanations of how artful teaching is integrated into reading instruction and how it can increase students’ motivation and positive attitudes toward reading. The concise and practical chapters cover key topics, including phonemic awareness, reading fluency, vocabulary, assessment, home and family reading, and more.
This essential roadmap for all pre-service and in-service reading teachers restores the importance of teacher agency, supports the critical understanding of reading research, and allows teachers to use their knowledge, experience, and creative approaches in the classroom. This is the definitive guide to teaching reading as both an art and a science.
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This essential roadmap for all pre-service and in-service reading teachers restores the importance of teacher agency, supports the critical understanding of reading research, and allows teachers to use their knowledge, experience, and creative approaches in the classroom. This is the definitive guide to teaching reading as both an art and a science.
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Build Reading Fluency: Practice and Performance with Reader's Theater and More
by Timothy Rasinski and Chase Young
Discover innovative ways to incorporate fluency practice into literacy instruction! This professional development resource provides teachers with engaging and practical strategies for bringing fluency instruction into daily reading routines.
Build Reading Fluency: Practice and Performance with Reader's Theater and More, 2nd Edition includes:
Research-based instruction and assessment from the science of reading
Strategies for boosting reading skills and reading comprehension
Resources and ideas for organizing a reader's theater program
Suggestions for family and student engagement
Tips to Ponder with each chapter
Written by Timothy Rasinski and Chase Young, this second edition is updated throughout with new instructional strategies and interventions. These two educators have combined their expertise in fluency, literacy, and reader's theater to create a meaningful guide for teachers to provide authentic purposeful reading opportunities for their students. With this book, teachers have all the tools they need to improve fluency, vocabulary, and automaticity in their students. Help every student become a confident and fluent reader with this relevant resource!
Build Reading Fluency: Practice and Performance with Reader's Theater and More, 2nd Edition includes:
Research-based instruction and assessment from the science of reading
Strategies for boosting reading skills and reading comprehension
Resources and ideas for organizing a reader's theater program
Suggestions for family and student engagement
Tips to Ponder with each chapter
Written by Timothy Rasinski and Chase Young, this second edition is updated throughout with new instructional strategies and interventions. These two educators have combined their expertise in fluency, literacy, and reader's theater to create a meaningful guide for teachers to provide authentic purposeful reading opportunities for their students. With this book, teachers have all the tools they need to improve fluency, vocabulary, and automaticity in their students. Help every student become a confident and fluent reader with this relevant resource!
Tiered Fluency Instruction: From Science of Reading to Effective Reading Fluency Instruction and Interventions
by Chase Young and Timothy Rasinski
Fluency is an important part of reading comprehension, and this book provides teachers with the instructional tools necessary to develop reading fluency for all elementary learners, so they can grow into proficient readers. The chapters include ways to assess students in fluency and approaches to fluency instruction using the Response to Intervention model. Young and Rasinski describe whole group activities that can be used daily in the classroom as well as small group instruction for students who need more support. For students who find reading most difficult, the authors provide several options for one-on-one intense interventions. The final chapter demonstrates how reading fluency instruction can be integrated with technology.
This is a newly printed version of Tiered Fluency Instruction.
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This is a newly printed version of Tiered Fluency Instruction.
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"For classroom teachers committed to continuing the inclusion of fluency development in their elementary school reading curriculum, this resource is a must have. Its practical approach provides multiple illustrative classroom cases, making the use of the fluency instruction and assessments provided within this new book very accessible. Get this resource; it will be well worth the investment." - Dr. D. Ray Reutzel, Dean of the College of Education at the University of Wyoming
"Classroom and resource teachers will find Tiered Fluency Instruction an extremely valuable resource, one they'll turn to again and again! … Each chapter has a wide range of fluency lessons to choose from, as well as helpful examples from lower and upper elementary classrooms. Procedures for each type of fluency instruction are clear and easy to implement. This is a must-have book for every teacher and resource specialist who works with students in grades in K to 8!" - Laura Robb, author of The Intervention Toolkit, Shell Education
"This helpful and easy-to-use resource will be valuable for classroom teachers as well as those who are charged with providing specialized instruction to students who struggle in reading." - Jerry L. Johns, Ph.D., No. IL University, Distinguished Teaching Prof. Emeritus
"Young and Rasinski offer a practical, easy-to-use, resource chock full of engaging and effective activities to build students' fluency. What is brilliant about this book is its organization. Activities are divided into those suitable for whole group (all students), small group (students needing additional support), and one-on-one (students needing intensive support), helping teachers select those just-right activities to meet the specific needs of each student… I especially loved the chapter on integrating technology, which offers highly motivating up-to-date methods to fine-tune current fluency instruction in ways teachers and students will love…"
- Wiley Blevins, author and educational consultant
"Whether you are a new teacher yearning to learn the best research based approaches to fluency, or an experienced and seasoned teacher who finds themselves in a rut and in need of fresh new ideas, this book is for you. Young and Rasinski give in depth and detailed examples of ways to monitor Response to Intervention, which all classroom teachers need. The way they lay out each technique is just how a teacher would put them to use in a classroom setting…" - Mary Catherine Page, M.S.Ed., Instructional Teacher Advisor, Corpus Christi ISD
"Classroom and resource teachers will find Tiered Fluency Instruction an extremely valuable resource, one they'll turn to again and again! … Each chapter has a wide range of fluency lessons to choose from, as well as helpful examples from lower and upper elementary classrooms. Procedures for each type of fluency instruction are clear and easy to implement. This is a must-have book for every teacher and resource specialist who works with students in grades in K to 8!" - Laura Robb, author of The Intervention Toolkit, Shell Education
"This helpful and easy-to-use resource will be valuable for classroom teachers as well as those who are charged with providing specialized instruction to students who struggle in reading." - Jerry L. Johns, Ph.D., No. IL University, Distinguished Teaching Prof. Emeritus
"Young and Rasinski offer a practical, easy-to-use, resource chock full of engaging and effective activities to build students' fluency. What is brilliant about this book is its organization. Activities are divided into those suitable for whole group (all students), small group (students needing additional support), and one-on-one (students needing intensive support), helping teachers select those just-right activities to meet the specific needs of each student… I especially loved the chapter on integrating technology, which offers highly motivating up-to-date methods to fine-tune current fluency instruction in ways teachers and students will love…"
- Wiley Blevins, author and educational consultant
"Whether you are a new teacher yearning to learn the best research based approaches to fluency, or an experienced and seasoned teacher who finds themselves in a rut and in need of fresh new ideas, this book is for you. Young and Rasinski give in depth and detailed examples of ways to monitor Response to Intervention, which all classroom teachers need. The way they lay out each technique is just how a teacher would put them to use in a classroom setting…" - Mary Catherine Page, M.S.Ed., Instructional Teacher Advisor, Corpus Christi ISD
Readers Theater Scripts: Texas History
by Timothy Rasinski, Debby Murphy, and Chase Young
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. Engage students through Reader's Theater to make learning fun while building knowledge of Texas history and the significant people, events, and places that make Texas what it is today. Improve vocabulary and comprehension with repeated practice and performance of the scripts along with TEKS-based activities in the lesson plans, which include word study, comprehension questions, and extension activities. Make your classroom a Reader's Theater classroom today!
Early Literacy Research and Instruction
by Chase Young
The title of this text is far more professional than the actual text itself. For the next 12 chapters, we will explore the many aspects of early literacy research and instruction through sometimes comical or even sarcastic perspectives, but the content is quite serious. This content is meant to supplement the instruction provided by your professor and perhaps complement any other texts used in your course. This text is also aligned with the Science of Teaching Reading exam. I urge you to use as many resources as possible, because it is my hope for you to become not only one of the best teachers of reading, but also one that your students remember forever.
Student Reviews
"I would say it is one of the best college books I have read."
"It is entertaining, straight to the point, and engaging."
"I love the way he writes. It makes it easier to read some of the difficult material."
"His writing is a nice change. It is much easier to read because it is light-hearted and funny."
Student Reviews
"I would say it is one of the best college books I have read."
"It is entertaining, straight to the point, and engaging."
"I love the way he writes. It makes it easier to read some of the difficult material."
"His writing is a nice change. It is much easier to read because it is light-hearted and funny."
Reading Fluency
Edited by Timothy Rasinski William Rupley David Paige, and Chase Young
Free digital version! Fluency has been a controversial topic for years. Allington described it as a neglected goal of the reading curriculum in 1985. The National Reading Panel (2000) provided empirical evidence of its importance in reading development. Measurement approaches to fluency have given rise to fluency as nothing more than fast reading, and recent surveys of experts in the field have consistently identified reading as a “not hot” issue and one that does not deserve to be hot. Based on our own research and interest in fluency, as well as work by other scholars, we are convinced that fluency is a critical competency for readers to gain full reading proficiency.