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Motivating Recreational Reading and Promoting Home-School Connections

Strategies From The Reading Teacher

 

Introduction

Host a Poetry Spectacular!
Margaret Hoagland

Why Was the Elephant Late in Getting on the Ark? Elephant Riddles and Other Jokes in the Classroom
Francis E. Kazemek

Riddles: Fun With Language Across the Curriculum
Rita Buchoff

Motivating Children to Read More Nonfiction
Mariam Jean Dreher

Book Commercials
Tammy N. Adams, Edward J. Dwyer

Jackdaws Improve Reading Attitudes
Joan Gibbs

Kindergarteners “Choose” to Read
Alayna M. Henderson

Cooperative Group Rotation
Betty Mermelstein

“I Know That Book's Here Somewhere!”: How to Reorganize Your Classroom Library
Hollie Brooks

Creating a Culturally Sensitive Classroom Library
Danny Brassell

Helping Children Use the Classroom Library
Pat Prill

Workshop Pedagogy—From Concrete to Abstract
Arne Trageton

Language Master Redux
Arne E. Sippola

Flashlight Reading: Making the Reading Process Concrete
Larry W. Rennick, Karen M. Williams

Reading Millionaires—It Works!
Nancy L. Baumann

Active Reading Through Fanny Books
Jane Brown, Slenda Haynes

“Hello, Mrs. Willman, It's Me!” Keep Kids Reading Over the Summer by Using Voice Mail
Ann Teresa Willman

Books and Buddies: Peers Tutoring Peers
Elizabeth Kreuger, Brenda Braun

“I'm Here to Help—What Do You Want Me to Do?”: A Primer for Literacy Tutors
Carol J. Hopkins

Reading Buddies: A First-Grade Intervention Program
Carol Caserta-Henry

Parents, Buddy Journals, and Reader Response
Pamela Klobukowski

Reading Coaches: An Alternative to Reading Tutors
Barbara A. Wasik

Even Though We Have Never Met, I Feel I Know You: Using a Parent Journal to Enhance Home-School Communication
Ellen M. Finnegan

Summer Reading Pals
Beverly Jean Borduin, Elizabeth Durie Cooper

Classbooks: Linking the Classroom to the Home
Laura Lee Scott

Children's Books to Develop Phonemic Awareness—For You and Parents, Too!
Michael F. Opitz

Family and Community Involvement: The Bedrock of Reading Success
Robert B. Cooter, Jr., Earlene Mills-House, Peggy Marrin, Barbara A. Mathews, Sylvia Campbell, Tina Baker

Breaking the Parental Barrier
Andrea L. Burkhart

Motivating Children's at-Home Reading With Book Swaps
John Michael Sawyer

A Celebration of Reading: How Our School Read for One Million Minutes
Sherrell Shanahan, Judy Wojciechowski, Gina Rubik

Identifying and Supporting Low-Literate Parents
Susan K. Bohler, Karen L. Eichenlaub, Sandra D. Litteken, Deborah A. Wallis

Latinos/as and Families: Books to Enhance Reading Togetherness
Isabel Schon

Can We Read You Our Story? The Tale of a School–Public Library Partnership
Marianne C. Saccardi

Appendix A
International Reading Association Parent Booklets and Brochures

Appendix B
Information on “Choices” Booklists

Appendix C
The America Reads Challenge

Appendix D
Book Adventure

Appendix E
Television Series for Beginning Readers

 

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