Becoming a Great Teacher of Reading: Achieving High Rapid Reading Gains with Powerful, Differentiated Strategies. Marie Carbo, $51.95

Literacy expert Marie Carbo pairs identifying each learner's unique reading style with a wide range of differentiated strategies to help all learners experience greater reading success. Using these research-based methods, both novice and experienced teachers can increase reading achievement with all learners, including those who are at-risk, older, or have special needs, as well as English Language Learners. This teacher-friendly resource includes recommendations for:

• Closing the academic gap by focusing on learning strengths
• Increasing readers' confidence and creativity
• Accommodating students with special needs
• Using reading labs with older students

A powerful tool for nurturing a love of reading, Becoming a Great Teacher of Reading not only strengthens students' reading comprehension and increases their reading motivation and enjoyment, but also helps ensure their continuing academic success.

Book Buddies: a Tutoring Framework for Struggling Readers, 2nd Edition. Francine Johnston, et al, $42.50 Grades K-3

This popular, practical resource provides guidelines for setting up a successful tutorial program in grades K-3 and presents a field-tested lesson format for individualized instruction. Clear explanations and examples demonstrate how to use the book's wealth of activities and exercises to assess students and build specific reading, writing, and spelling skills. Also included are a 70-minute DVD depicting sample sessions with a beginning reader and a late beginning reader, a helpful glossary, a resource list, and more than two dozen reproducible tutoring tools.

Brain, Behavior and Learning in Language and Reading Disorders. Maria Mody & Elaine Silliman, $55.50

Grounded in cutting-edge research on brain/behavior relationships, this book explores how language and reading disorders develop, and presents exciting new approaches to examining and treating them. Experts from multiple disciplines investigate how children's learning trajectories in spoken and written language are shaped by the dynamic interplay of neurobiological, experiential, and behavioral processes. The volume includes innovative neuro-imaging applications and other techniques that help shed new light on childhood disorders such as dyslexia, language impairment, writing disabilities, and autism. Implications for evidence-based diagnosis, intervention, and instruction are discussed.

Bringing The Outside In: Visual Ways To Engage Reluctant Readers. Sara B. Kajder, $27.95

The reading that we value in school is becoming further and further distanced from the literacy students experience in their outside lives. Keying in on the visual aspects of literacy, and building upon students' growing interest in using words and images from their lives to read and write for authentic reasons and authentic audiences — integrating such strategies as digital storytelling, visual think-alouds, visual literature circles, and others into English class — this book redefines what it means to be literate in today's world. By adding visual components to class activities and projects integrating tools ranging from pencils and paper to “weblogs” and “wikis”, even reluctant students can become engaged and see themselves as readers and writers for the first time.

Catching Readers Before They Fall: Supporting Readers Who Struggle, K-4.  Pat Johnson & Katie Keier, $31.95

Essential reading for anyone and everyone who works with struggling readers, this book contains a wealth of strategies, resources, and teaching ideas. From word-solving and prompting methods, to modeling and teaching strategies, to practical answers for parents, Catching Readers provides a picture of what it both looks and sounds like to help a child who struggles.

Challenging the Gifted Child: an Open Approach to Working with Advanced Young Readers. Margaret Stevens, $22.95

Gifted children are quick on the uptake, can be frustrated by repetition and easily become impatient when unchallenged. Challenging the Gifted Child outlines a tried and tested approach for encouraging able children to focus their active minds in a productive way and discover the joy and value of reading. The book encourages the development of independent learning skills and will help parents and educators to create a personalized reading programme for a gifted child at home or small groups of children in school.

A Classroom Teacher’s Guide to Struggling Readers. Curt Dudley-Marling & Patricia Paugh, $24.00

Curt Dudley-Marling and Patricia Paugh provide quick, effective answers as they draw a roadmap that leads you away from a deficit-based approach toward child-centered practices that give you the time and space to meet every student’s needs. A Classroom Teacher's Guide to Struggling Readers is a humane approach that values all children equally and builds on successes, so that our most challenged readers get all the attention they need—and deserve.

Classrooms That Work: They Can All Read and Write, 5th Edition. Patricia Cunningham & Richard Allington, $44.05

Classrooms That Work emphasizes a core set of ideas across a variety of timely topics, providing a comprehensive, balanced treatment of instructional reading methods for struggling and culturally diverse students. The flexibility gained by using this comprehensive approach gives instructors the opportunity to tailor course coverage and topic sequence making this a perfect book to be used in reading and language arts methods courses.

Diagnosis and Correction of Reading Problems. Darrell Morris, $29.50

In this highly informative text, Darrell Morris demonstrates how to conduct a comprehensive diagnostic assessment; interpret reading scores; and provide individualized instruction that takes each student's specific strengths and weaknesses into account. Case studies bring to life the book's one-to-one strategies for struggling beginning readers, older remedial readers (second- to sixth-grade reading levels), and those with severe reading disabilities. Helpful appendices feature ready-to-use assessment tools, book lists, and other reproducibles.

Differentiated Reading Instruction: Strategies for the Primary Grades. Sharon Walpole & Michael McKenna, $28.95 (Grades K to 3)

All teachers recognize the importance of matching literacy instruction to the ability level and needs of each child - but how can this crucial goal actually be accomplished? This indispensable book provides a research-based framework and flexible, highly practical strategies for making differentiated instruction work.

Differentiating Instruction with Menus for the Inclusive Classroom: Language Arts, Grades 3-5. Laurie Westphal, $22.95

This book offers teachers everything they need to create a student-centered learning environment based on choice. The book provides numerous types of leveled menus that lower and on-level elementary-aged students can use to demonstrate learning through a method of their choice. Menus with similar formats but geared towards varying ability levels allow teachers to differentiate easily. Using creative and challenging choices found in these menus, students will look forward to sharing their newfound knowledge throughout the year. Also included are specific guidelines for products, rubrics for assessing student products, and teacher introduction pages for each menu.

Drawing a Blank: Improving Comprehension for Readers on the Autism Spectrum. Emily Iland, $36.95

Although they may be fluent readers — indeed, many have very precocious reading skills — individuals with autism spectrum disorders often need support for comprehension. Comprehension difficulties in readers with ASD can be subtle and difficult to tease out. As a result, their substantial level of risk for reading comprehension problems is often overlooked or unaddressed, and many students struggle in silence. This is where Drawing a Blank comes in. This practical and well-researched resource provides educational professionals and parents with the tools to improve comprehension for good decoders who have reading comprehension difficulties, as well as readers who struggle with both decoding and comprehension. In keeping with current standards, the book emphasizes the importance of using evidence-based and promising practices based on thorough assessment of students’ needs.

Early Intervention for Reading Difficulties: the Interactive Strategies Approach.  Donna Scanlon, Kimberly Anderson & Joan Sweeney, $30.50

This book presents a research-supported framework for early literacy instruction that aligns with multi-tiered response-to-intervention (RTI) models. The book focuses on giving teachers a better understanding of literacy development and how to effectively support children as they begin to read and write. Detailed guidance is provided on ways to target these goals with K-2 students at risk for reading difficulties. Assessment and instructional strategies for whole-class, small-group, and one-to-one settings are discussed in depth.

Effective Instruction for Struggling Readers, K to 6. Barbara Taylor, $31.95

Featuring today’s most respected leaders in the field of reading interventions, this book examines what we have learned from the research to help struggling readers in grades K–6. Focusing on strategies that have been proven effective, the authors will help educators meet the demands placed on them to ensure that all students are making good progress toward becoming competent readers. Each chapter begins with a set of framing questions and ends with suggestions for action to foster discussion and help teachers translate research-based ideas into practice—perfect for teacher education courses and professional development workshops.

Empowering Struggling Readers: Practices for the Middle Grades. Leigh Hall, Leslie Burns & Elizabeth Carr Edwards, $38.95

This book provides classroom-tested methods for engaging struggling middle grade readers — even those who appear to have given up — and fostering their success. The emphasis is on constructing respectful, encouraging learning environments that incorporate students' diverse literacies, cultural interests, and prior knowledge and skills into instruction. Chapters outline effective, innovative strategies for instruction and assessment in comprehension, vocabulary, text-based discussion, critical reading, and other core areas. Realistic classroom examples are included throughout, including applications of nontraditional texts.

The ESL/ELL Teacher's Book of Lists, 2nd Edition. Jacqueline Kress, $35.95

This unique teacher time-saver includes scores of helpful, practical lists that may be reproduced for classroom use or referred to in the development of instructional materials and lessons. The material contained in this book helps K-12 teachers reinforce and enhance the learning of grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and writing skills in ESL students of all ability levels. For easy use and quick access, the lists are printed in a format that can be photocopied. A complete, thoroughly updated glossary at the end provides an indispensable guide to the specialized language of ESL instruction.

Extra Practice for Struggling Readers: High-Frequency Words, Grades 3-6. Linda Ward Beech, $16.99

Motivating practice packets that help intermediate students master 240 essential words they need to know to succeed in reading and writing.

Extra Practice for Struggling Readers: Phonics, Grades 3-6. Linda Ward Beech, $16.99

Motivating practice packets that help intermediate students build essential decoding skills.

Extra Practice for Struggling Readers: Word Study, Grades 3-6. Linda Ward Beech, $16.99

Motivating practice packets that help intermediate students learn key prefixes, suffixes and root words.

Finding the Right Texts: What Works for Beginning and Struggling Readers. Edited by E. Hiebert & M. Sailors, $32.95

Finding the Right Texts meets an important need by reviewing the best available research on the role of specific text features in supporting the development of proficient reading. Also explored are ways that teacher scaffolding can help students who have difficulties with particular aspects or types of texts. The book considers approaches to adapting the design and selection of texts to reinforce reading skills and provide well-paced challenges for K-6 students at a variety of ability levels.

How to Plan Differentiated Reading Instruction: Resources for Grades K-3. Sharon Walpole & Michael McKenna, $35.95 (school-age)

This book reviews the basics of differentiated reading instruction and provides detailed, ready-to-use lesson plans and materials to help teachers hit the ground running.

How to Reach and Teach All Children Through Balanced Literacy. Sandra Rief & Julie Heimburge, $35.99 (Grades 3 to 8)

The balanced literacy method combines the best practices of phonics and other skill-based language instruction with the holistic, literature-based approach in order to help you teach reading, writing, and speaking in a clear and approachable format.

Instruction and Assessment for Struggling Writers: Evidence-Based Practices. Edited by Gary Troia, $33.50

This unique book focuses on how to provide effective instruction to K-12 students who find writing challenging, including English language learners and those with learning disabilities or language impairments. Prominent experts illuminate the nature of writing difficulties and offer practical suggestions for building students' skills at the word, sentence, and text levels. Topics include writing workshop instruction; strategies to support the writing process, motivation, and self-regulation; composing in the content areas; classroom technologies; spelling instruction for diverse learners; and assessment approaches. Every chapter is grounded in research and geared to the real world needs of teachers in general and special education settings.

Interventions for Reading Success. Diane Haager, Joseph Dimino & Michelle Windmueller, $61.95 (K to 3)

With an extensive menu of lessons that take just 20–30 minutes, this intervention guide is the key to helping students grasp the five ‘Big Ideas’ of early literacy: phonological awareness, the alphabetic principle, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension … All activities come complete with clear guidelines and suggestions and are easy to tailor to students’ individual needs. Creative and versatile, this curriculum supplement will help struggling students become skillful, enthusiastic readers.

Jasmine Can: Creating Self-Confidence. Bena Hartman, Mary Gregg Byrne, $11.95

Raising her hand to read in front of the class is something that Jasmine would never do. While other classmates breeze through the pages of books, Jasmine finds it difficult to read. But with the help of a special friend, Jasmine finds the confidence she needs to take a chance.

Joyful Reading: Differentiation and Enrichment for Successful Literacy Learning. Sally Reis, $29.95

An easy-to-implement program that encourages all students to read independently for a period of time during the school day on books of their own choice while supporting them in learning comprehension strategies.

A Land We Can Share: Teaching Literacy to Students with Autism. Paula Kluth, & Kelly Chandler-Olcott, $27.50

Teachers are going to love this book! Passionate and practical, it moves beyond "sight words" and other functional literacy skills and provides the know-how for bringing quality, meaningful literacy instruction to students with autism. The book focuses specifically on ways in which educators can improve literacy outcomes for students with autism spectrum disorders in Grades K–12 classrooms.

Lift-Off for Early Literacy: Directed Reading Opportunities for Struggling Students. Charlene Iannone-Campbell & Susan Lloyd Lattimore, $48.95

As early as preschool, children who struggle with emergent literacy skills can benefit from effective response to intervention. Don't wait until later grades when they've already fallen behind—improve their literacy skills now with this evidence-based Tier 2 RTI curriculum, ready for any pre-K educator to pick up and use right away. Expertly organizing their lessons into one hands-on, step-by-step guide, the authors give teachers, SLPs, and paraprofessionals eleven complete units of small-group instruction.

Young children will love the engaging activity sets, filled with songs, stories, fingerplay, rhymes, and games that help increase their reading readiness while they have fun. And all adults involved in pre-K instruction—from teachers to classroom volunteers—will love how this curriculum helps them make the most of their classroom time and get real, measurable results. With this highly effective, teacher-friendly curriculum, pre-K educators will help struggling students achieve "literacy lift-off" as early as possible so they're ready for long-term reading success.

Literacy Growth for Every Child: Differentiated Small Group Instruction K-6. Diane Lapp, Douglas Fisher & Thomas DeVere Wolsey, $36.95

Implementing differentiated small group instruction in K-6 classrooms — where students' abilities, needs, and interests vary widely — is challenging yet extremely important. This research based guide is packed with ideas about how to structure literacy lessons that incorporate both collaborative and needs-based small-group instruction in order to help all students succeed.

Literacy Instruction for English Language Learners Pre-K-2. Diane Barone & Shelley Hong Xu, $29.50

Summarizing current research and weaving it into practical instructional strategies that teachers can immediately use with young English language learners (ELLs), covers all aspects of effective instruction for ELLs: oral language development and instruction, materials, word study, vocabulary, comprehension, writing, home-school connections and assessment. The volume is packed with realistic examples, lesson planning ideas, book lists, online resources, and reproducibles.

Literacy Leadership to Support Reading Improvement: Intervention Programs and Balanced Instruction. Mary Kay Moskal & Ayn Keneman, $26.95

Packed with vivid examples from actual schools, this book explores specific ways that literacy leaders can partner with teachers to meet the instructional needs of every student. It provides a range of research-based strategies for implementing effective instruction in a response-to-intervention framework. It also describes innovative interventions—including schoolwide programs and family and community initiatives—that promote success for struggling readers. Practical ideas are presented for engaging particular populations, such as boys and middle and high school students, and for supporting teachers' professional development.

Make Writing Exciting, Grades 1-2. Kelly Gunzenhauser, $19.95

Motivating lessons, focused activities on specific skills and reproducible patterns to teach essential writing techniques.

Making Assessment Matter: Using Test Results to Differentiate Reading Instruction. Nonie Lesaux & Sky Marietta, $28.50

All too often, literacy assessments are given only for accountability purposes and fail to be seen as valuable resources for planning and differentiating instruction. This clear, concise book shows K–5 educators how to implement a comprehensive, balanced assessment battery that integrates accountability concerns with data-driven instruction. Teachers learn to use different types of test scores to understand and address students' specific learning needs. The book features an in-depth case example of a diverse elementary school that serves many struggling readers and English language learners. 

Narrowing the Literacy Gap: What Works in High-Poverty Schools. Diane Barone, $31.95

This engaging book offers new insights and information on why students in high-poverty schools struggle with literacy achievement and what specific factors promote success. Findings from a unique study are translated into clear recommendations for enriching the classroom environment at different grade levels and helping all children, including English language learners, become highly skilled readers and writers. Packed with compelling observations and data, the book illustrates the realities of day-to-day life in the classroom, provides snapshots of exemplary instructional practices, and emphasizes the key role of teacher-student interactions in overcoming barriers to learning.

Next STEPS in Literacy Instruction: Connecting Assessments to Effective Interventions. Susan Smartt & Deborah Glaser, $45.95

This practical guide helps the educator do more with the valuable information gathered from literacy assessments. Next STEPS in Literacy Instruction takes the guesswork out of intervention and helps transform struggling students in to skillful readers.

Now We Get It! Boosting Comprehension with Collaborative Strategic Reading, Grades 4-12. Janette Klinger, Alison Boardman, Elizabeth Swanson & Sharon Vaughn, $35.95

Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) is an innovative new approach to teaching reading that weaves together two instructional programs: cooperative learning and reading comprehension strategy instruction. In small groups, students work through the four main CSR steps while helping each other improve comprehension and increase reading fluency. A proven program for improving reading skills in mixed-ability classrooms, this book offers a hands-on guide to implementing CSR in grades 4 through 12.

NOW WE GET IT includes sample dialogues for teachers to use during instruction, ready-to-use activities, a wealth of classroom-ready materials, and tips for training on CSR. Bonus web content includes a PowerPoint presentation on CSR and short video clips.

One Child at a Time: Making the Most of Your Time with Struggling Readers, K–6. Pat Johnson, $24.95

This straightforward book offers a four-step framework for working with struggling readers that will allow teachers to focus on and analyze specific behaviours and needs, design targeted instruction, and assess and refine teaching through conferences with the child. Packed with examples of real student-teacher conferences, the text also explores follow-up assessment and analysis over days and weeks, tracking how and when skills are developing. The book shows how to adapt its framework to use successfully with a range of readers, including young children, English language learners, and upper elementary students who are stalled in their literacy progress.

Jeanne Gibbs’ perspective on human development is a systems approach that encourages schools, families and communities to create healthy environments in which children can grow and learn. Her primary interest centers on the potential of cooperative learning for the redesign of educational systems. Tribes explains how to teach collaborative skills, design interactive learning experiences, work with multiple learning styles, foster the development of resiliency, and support school community change.

Readers at Risk is designed to provide grade-level-appropriate material for struggling special education students and for students who are testing below their grade level. Many of the book's vocabulary building activities are designed to build students' confidence and include easy-to-identify answers in the form of questions or quotations. Readers at Risk focuses on nonfiction and testing prompts, taught with engaging crossword puzzles and fun magic squares. It makes the reading experience and word play more enjoyable for exceptional students without creating more paperwork for teachers.

Miscue analysis may be the single best tool for assessing readers' difficulties. With Reading Conversations, you can take this tool to a new level, moving beyond diagnosis and into developmental strategies that involve not only teacher-student explorations of how students make meaning with texts, but also peer-led discussions.

Reading Development and Difficulties. Kate Cain, $45.95

Reading Development and Difficulties is a comprehensive and balanced introduction to the development of the two core aspects of reading: good word reading skills and the ability to extract the overall meaning of a text.  Unique in its balanced coverage of both word reading and reading comprehension development, this book is an essential resource for comprehending literacy acquisition.

Reading Strategies for Elementary Students with Learning Difficulties: Strategies for RTI. William Bender & Martha Larkin, $71.95

This one-stop resource provides teachers with a ready reference of interventions to provide targeted reading instruction for students with learning difficulties.

Ready to Read: a Multisensory Approach to Language-Based Comprehension Instruction. Mary Lupiani Farrell & Francie Matthews, $27.50

Comprehension is the ultimate goal of reading: it makes learning possible and determines students' long-term success across all academic subjects. This book provides guidelines for basing comprehension instruction on students' language ability and to use the popular multisensory teaching approach to help educators teach comprehension skills in ways that complement each child's learning styles.  

RTI from All Sides: What Every Teacher Needs to Know. Mary Howard, $23.25

RTI from All Sides points the way toward thoughtful and effective Response to Intervention (RTI)—and away from rigid implementations. Author Mary Howard offers suggestions for instructional design, collaboration, and troubleshooting—even for avoiding mediocre RTI products. The book demonstrates how to apply the principles you trust to RTI:

• Teaching reading and writing in authentic ways to help students choose just-right books that set them up to read in and out of school
• Using simple, ongoing assessments to know when to intensify instruction inside and outside the regular classroom
• Differentiating reading instruction to maintain the flow between whole-class, small-group, and one-on-one instruction while meeting specific students’ needs
• Designing interventions to amplify instruction instead of sidelining students to skill-and-drill that takes them further from engaged, proficient reading
• Coordinating efforts within and between instructional supports to emphasize acceleration through the targeted instruction students need to succeed.

The Struggling Writer, Grades 3-6. Janet Angelillo, $22.95

Strategies to help kids focus, build stamina and develop writing confidence.

Teaching Adolescents Who Struggle with Reading: Practical Strategies. David Moore & Kathleen Hinchman, $35.95

Teaching Adolescents Who Struggle with Reading presents practical classroom strategies for teaching middle and high school students who struggle as readers and writers.

Teaching Reading Comprehension. Alison Davis, $59.99 (Grades 3 to 8)

Teaching Reading Comprehension brings together a metacognitive approach with the principles of formative assessment to show how the decisions a teacher makes affect student achievement. Educators working in grades 3-8 will find practical information on all aspects of teaching reading comprehension.

Teaching Struggling Readers with Poetry, Grades 1-3. Maria Walther & Carol Fuhler, $26.99

Engaging poems with mini-lessons that target and teach phonics, sight words, fluency and more – laying the foundation for reading success.

Teaching Tips for Kids with Dyslexia. Sherrill Flora, $21.50

This teacher/parent resource has a wealth of practical ideas and teaching strategies that can help children with dyslexia and other reading disabilities become successful readers.

Teaching Word Recognition: Effective Strategies for Students with Learning Difficulties. Rollanda O'Connor, $29.95

Most struggling readers, including those with reading disabilities, have difficulties recognizing printed words. This unique, lucidly written book synthesizes the research on how children learn to read words skillfully and translates it into step-by-step strategies for the classroom. The author demonstrates how to plan and implement a coordinated series of lessons that address letter-sound pairings, decoding and blending, multi-syllabic words, sight words, and fluency. The proven techniques presented are applicable across the primary grades; in addition, specific guidance is offered for working with older children who are having difficulties.

Teaching Writing: Differentiated Instruction with Leveled Graphic Organizers, Grades 1-3. Nancy Witherell & Mary McMackin, $21.99

Fifteen complete writing lessons, including a model lesson, literature links and reproducible organizers designed to support individual learning needs.

Teaching Writing in the Inclusive Classroom: Strategies and Skills for All Students, Grades 6 – 12. Roger Passman & Katherine McKnight, $35.99

Filled with fifty engaging activities, this hands-on resource is an important and valuable tool that can supplement any teacher's approach to writing instruction. Teaching Writing in the Inclusive Classroom offers strategies based on the proven TIP Writing Process that is designed to individualize the writing process by focusing on the specific needs of each student within the classroom.

Teaching Writing in Mixed-Language Classrooms, Grades K-5. Joanne Yatvin, $24.99

Powerful writing strategies to help all students develop the skills they need to write with confidence.

Teaching Writing to Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic Learners. Donovan R. Walling, $37.95

Are your picture-smart, music-smart, and body-smart learners lagging behind their word-smart and number-smart peers? Donovan Walling offers innovative new ways to help these learners become effective writers! With an emphasis on matching teaching method to learning style and developing both basic writing competencies and higher-level thinking skills, this resource offers instructional strategies, sample lessons, a learning styles self-assessment. This is an essential resource for teachers, literacy coaches, and curriculum designers who want to expand writing curriculum and incorporate more non-linear methods into their instructional repertoires.

25 Essential Language Arts Strategies to Help Striving Readers Succeed. Michael Opitz & Roland Schendel, $21.99

Strategies to engage your striving and uncertain readers and to provide the thoughtful scaffolding they need to achieve reading proficiency.

What Really Matters for Struggling Readers: Designing Research-Based Programs, 3rd Edition. Richard Allington, $50.65

What Really Matters for Struggling Readers delivers a concise and balanced introduction to reading remediation and intervention programs and the topic of struggling readers. This revised edition continues to focus on helping teachers design reading remediation and intervention programs around well-established reality and research-based components.

The Words Came Down! English Language Learners Read, Write and Talk Across the Curriculum. Emelie Parker & Tess Pardini, $27.95

This timely guide emphasizes a workshop structure for literacy studies that allows teachers to differentiate instruction to include all students, and affords students ample opportunity to collaborate with others as they learn to speak, read, writer, and comprehend. The book emphasizes oral language and communication as critical to successful teaching and learning.

Writing Assessment and Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities, Grades K-12. Nancy Mather, Barbara Wendling & Rhia Roberts, $41.95

Research-based, classroom-tested strategies to help students of all ability levels improve writing skills. Includes 100+ student writing samples with guidelines for analysis.