Motivating Recreational Reading and Promoting Home-School Connections

Strategies From The Reading Teacher

Timothy V. Rasinski, Nancy D. Padak, Brenda Weible Church, Gay Fawcett, Judith Hendershot, Justina M. Henry, Barbara G. Moss, Jacqueline K. Peck, Elizabeth (Betsy) Pryor, and Kathleen A. Roskos, editors

Use these classroom-tested ideas, resources, and activities to foster motivation and home-school partnerships for making literacy learning more effective and engaging. This collection of Reading Teacher articles provides a wealth of innovative strategies that use poetry, cooperative groups, classroom libraries, multicultural literature, reading workshops, peer tutoring, home-school links, community involvement, and more.

You’ll also find information on IRA’s parent resources, several reading incentive programs, and the Choices booklists.

© 2000 | 156 pp.
ISBN 10: 0-87207-282-7 | ISBN 13: 978-0-87207-282-4

Also of interest:

Family Literacy

And from these editors:

Distinguished Educators on Reading

Also in this series:

Teaching Word Recognition, Spelling, and Vocabulary

Developing Reading-Writing Connections

Teaching Comprehension and Exploring Multiliteracies

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