Bøger af Wilma H. Miller

This unique instructional resource is packed with ready-to-use time- and work-savers for virtually every aspect of the reading teacher's job, including over 120 reproducible activity sheets, assessment devices, and management tools to help students of all ability levels learn to read as proficiently as possible. The strategies and materials presented give you the best of whole language and phonics instruction for setting up an appropriate, well-paced reading program that meets the needs of individual students, small groups, or the entire class. They cover the full range of reading skills and provide a variety of games, activities, and reproducibles for reinforcing each skill. For quick access and easy use, the Kit is organized into eight sections and printed in a big 8-1/4" x 11" spiral-bound format that folds flat for photocopying of any page as many times as needed. Here's just a sampling of the practical help you?ll find in this remarkable resource: Dozens of ready-to-use assessment aids to determine students? specific reading strengths and weaknesses, including a complete Individual Reading Inventory (IRI) with reproducible word lists, oral reading passages, and observation checklists from the preprimary to grades 10-12 reading levels Over 80 stimulating hands-on games and activity sheets to build students? skills in letter-name knowledge, sight word recognition, word structure, context clues, vocabulary, reading comprehension, and more Step-by-step guidelines, activities and reproducibles for teaching phonics, an important and sometimes neglected reading skill Up-to-date information and materials for teaching reading to students with special needs, including children with learning disabilities, attention deficit disorders, and dyslexia as well as children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds Specific techniques for enlisting the support of family members and friends in a child's reading program, including three reading checklists at the preschool, primary grade, and intermediate grade levels and four games family members can use to review sight words and phonic skills Comprehensive lists of fiction and nonfiction trade books that reinforce the learning of essential reading skills ? from alphabet and rhyme books to multicultural literature In short, The Reading Teacher's Survival Kit gives reading teachers and tutors a unique compendium of classroom-tested strategies, materials, games and reproducibles for effectively meeting the individual reading needs and interests of the children with whom they are working. It will help ensure that every child learns to read up to the limits of his or her potential.

This book of activities gives children practice in learning the letter sounds of the alphabet. The activities start with the consonant letters and their sounds, then progress to vowel sounds, consonant blends, the hard and soft sounds of certain letters, digraphs, diphthongs, and other aspects of phonics. Many of the worksheets engage children in creating new words and using them in context. The words are age-appropriate and the reading selections have been created using the Spache Readability Formula. These activities can be used in any reading program with children of all ability levels. They provide the extra practice that many children need to master beginning reading skills.

This book of activities gives children practice in learning the various sounds of the alphabet, helping them decode new words as well as build on their knowledge of previously learned words. The activities cover a wide array of topics, including consonant blends and digraphs, vowels, rhyming words, homophones, silent letters, prefixes, suffixes, root works, plurals, syllables, and more. Many of the worksheets engage children in thinking out new words and putting tem in sentence context. Others ask students to select a correct answer form several choices. Some have students working with a partner or using a dictionary to create word lists not found on the worksheet. The words are age-appropriate and the reading selections have been created using the Spache Readability Formula. These activities can be used in any reading program with children of all ability levels. They provide the extra practice that most children need as they continue to master intermediate reading skills.

This practical resource helps elementary classroom, remedial reading, and LD teachers make the best possible informal assessment of a child's specific reading, writing, and spelling strengths and weaknesses and attitudes toward reading.

A comprehensive practical resource that gives classroom teachers and reading specialists what they need to correct or remediate all types of common reading problems encountered in grades 3 and up.

For teachers, reading specialists and special educators in grades 4-12, this practical resource is packed with hundreds of strategies and activities for evaluating and improving students' reading, writing, study, and test-taking skills in all content areas.