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For educators who are working to improve the reading achievement of both beginning and older struggling readers, this updated and revised edition of the Teaching Reading Sourcebook is an indispensable resource. It is an essential addition to any educator's professional literacy library-elementary, secondary, university.

NEW TO THIS EDITION:

All new sample lesson models
More reproducible activity masters
A whole new section on reading fluency
More about letter knowledge and multisyllabic word reading
More about the comprehension strategies that good readers use
Useful information about the three-tier model
Highly respected contributing authors who are experts in the field of reading

About the Author

Bill Honig is the president of CORE, former State Superintendent of Public Instruction of California, and author of Teaching Our Children to Read: The Role of Skills in a Comprehensive Reading Program.

Linda Diamond is the chief executive officer of CORE, a national speaker on literacy, leadership, assessment, and Response to Intervention; a former school principal and director of instruction; co-author of Assessing Reading: Multiple Measures and the Vocabulary Handbook; and author of numerous professional articles.

Linda Gutlohn is an educational product developer and editor, co-author of the Vocabulary Handbook; a former teacher and language arts consultant, and president of phonicFinder, a provider of software for decodable text analysis

A plain-English guide to teaching phonics. Every parent can teach reading—no experts need apply! Too many parents watch their children struggle with early reading skills—and don't know how to help. Phonics programs are too often complicated, overpriced, gimmicky, and filled with obscure educationalese. The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading cuts through the confusion, giving parents a simple, direct, scripted guide to teaching reading—from short vowels through supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. This one book supplies parents with all the tools they need.

Over the years of her teaching career, Jessie Wise has seen good reading instruction fall prey to trendy philosophies and political infighting. Now she has teamed with dynamic coauthor Sara Buffington to supply parents with a clear, direct phonics program—a program that gives them the know-how and confidence to take matters into their own hands.

About the Author
Jessie Wise has decades of experience as a classroom teacher, elementary school principal, private tutor, and educational consultant. She is the co-author of the best-selling The Well-Trained Mind and the groundbreaking elementary grammar text First Language Lessons for the Well-Trained Mind. Sara Buffington is a teacher, writer, and children's book editor.