Overview

Now that it’s critical for all teachers in every grade and subject to work on enhancing students’ reading and literacy skills, here’s an ASCD Action Tool that quickly gets teachers up to speed on effective reading strategies and provides all the materials they need to teach strategic reading practices.

Inside the three-ring binder are 84 research-based Reading Tools that make it much easier to select the right strategy that will help students build their learning skills and learn the particular content they are studying.

Whenever teachers observe students having trouble with connecting prior knowledge to new reading assignments, making predictions about their reading, or deciphering text they do not understand, they can quickly select a Reading Tool that will address the problem effectively in a time-efficient way. ASCD Action Tools provide all the materials you need to begin using these resources immediately. Each tool includes complete how-to-use instructions, teacher materials for classroom use, classroom examples, and a template for student assignments.

(ASCD Action Tool, 2003) Three-ring binder, 396 pages.

For the educational leader who needs to implement school improvement solutions quickly, here’s something totally new and different: ASCD Action Tools. Each Action Tool is packed with templates, agendas, case studies, tips, and other ready-to-use tools so that you can take immediate steps toward advancing school improvement.

Also part of a resource package!

Related ASCD Action Tools

• Reading Strategies for the Content Areas, Volume 2
• Strategies for Teaching Writing
• Using Writing to Learn Across the Content Areas