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About the Reading Puzzle SeriesIn her best-selling book Teach Them All TRead, Elaine McEwan provides a great discussion of the most current reading research regarding how students learn tread seducators can make informed decisions about instruction Research about reading has given us insight intthe skills on which we need tfocus our efforts timprove reading and comprehension Now we can identify the skills that require reinforcement and intervene with explicit, thoughtful instruction The activities in The Reading Puzzle series will help the teacher accomplish this goalThe Reading Puzzle series provides instructional tools teachers can use immediately as part of the reading curriculum The Reading Puzzle series contains 10 books for Kindergarten through Grade 8 centered on the skills identified by the National Reading Panel as critical treading success Each of these books in the series helps unlock one piece of the reading puzzle and contains standards-based, ready-to-use activities that can be used tsupplement any reading programPhonemic Awareness, Grades K-3 Phonics, Grades K-3Vocabulary, Grades K-3Fluency, Grades K-3Comprehension, Grades K-3Word Analysis, Grades 4-8Spelling, Grades 4-8Vocabulary, Grades 4-8Fluency, Grades 4-8Comprehension, Grades 4-8These activity books contain ready-to-use activities that make it easy tput McEwans highly-successful strategies intpractice The strategies and activities will support struggling readers and enhance existing skill tencourage improvement in all students reading skillsFluency, Grades 4-8 This activity book, derived from Teach Them All tRead, is designed tgive you the strategies and activities that will help you develop your students reading fluency Fluency lessons dnot take much time and are easy tprepare and teach Fluency is simple tmeasure and progress is readily apparent Fluency is a frequently neglected piece of the reading puzzle Students should learn many sight words well and they need tread many different kinds of text in lots of different ways at both home and school A number of strategies can improve fluency including: modeling good oral reading, providing oral support for readers, offering plenty of practice opportunities, and encouraging fluency through phrasing Fluency, Grades 4-8, contains research-based activities tsupport students fluency development Original, engaging, leveled reading passages, authored by Q L Pearce, accompany most lessons Many passages can be applied with several strategies and utilized across grade levels A quick reference coding system makes it easy for you tidentify the reading level and assign appropriate passages tyour students
