Giggle Poetry Reading Lessons: A Successful Reading-Fluency

Giggle Poetry Reading Lessons: A Successful Reading-Fluency Program Parents and Teachers Can Use to Dramatically Improve Reading Skills and Scores

Amy Buswell and Bruce Lansky's Giggle Poetry Reading Lessons turns struggling readers into happy readers â€” For Grades 2â€“5.

Many struggling readers are embarrassed to read aloud. They are often intimidated or bored by texts that conventional programs require them to practice. So, instead of catching up, they fall further behind. Currently 67% of American fourth graders canâ€™t read grade-level text. Reading specialist Amy Buswell has spent eight years looking for remediation methods that work. â€œWhat is needed,â€ Buswell explains, â€œis a program that improves the motivation of struggling readers, because that accounts for 90% of the problem.â€ Four years ago, Buswell came up with a brainstorm. She knew her best readers enjoyed reading Bruce Lanskyâ€™s poetry books for pleasure. The more poems they read, the better the reading got. Why not use Lanskyâ€™s kid-tested poems as texts struggling readers could practice on to improve their readingâ€”using six research-based strategies: choral reading, echo reading, paired reading, repeated reading, sustained silent reading and â€œsay it like the characterâ€ reading. â€” This book is the result of that brainstorm and the resulting collaboration between Buswell and Lansky. It gives teachers and parents everything they need to help children improve their reading: -35 kid-tested poems by Bruce Lansky -35 customized reading lessons by Amy Buswell -35 off-the-wall illustrations by Stephen Carpenter -35 sets of zany performance tips by Bruce Lansky â€¦all of which is designed to make the process of reading improvement more like fun than work. â€” What Amy Buswell and Bruce Lansky have created is the most entertaining fluency intervention ever. Thatâ€™s why it is so successful at overcoming negative attitudes to improve reading skills and scores. Ninety-five percent of participating students made significant improvement in their fluency (reading rate). And average reading scores on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) for Buswellâ€™s school raised her schoolâ€™s rating to an A for the first time. In 2011, Buswellâ€™s school achieved one of the highest-percentage reading gains in the county. â€” Thereâ€™s no reason parents canâ€™t get in on the fun, too. Parents will enjoy Lanskyâ€™s funny poems and Stephen Carpenterâ€™s delightful illustrations as much as their children. By reading the poems with their children and encouraging their children to try some of Lanskyâ€™s entertaining performance tips (by adding gestures, sound effects, props and finding additional readers: be they friends, family or neighbors), they can dramatically speed up their childâ€™s reading progress (and have lots of fun in the process.)
Country USA
Brand Running Press Adult
Manufacturer Running Press Kids
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber black & white illustrations
ReleaseDate 2014-08-05
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9781476742946

Country	USA
Brand	Running Press Adult
Manufacturer	Running Press Kids
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	black & white illustrations
ReleaseDate	2014-08-05
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9781476742946

Giggle Poetry Reading Lessons: A Successful Reading-Fluency Program Parents and Teachers Can Use to Dramatically Improve Reading Skills and Scores

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