Answers to Your Biggest Questions About Teaching Elementary Reading: Five to Thrive [series]

"Answers to your Biggest Questions About Teaching Elementary Reading aims to help new teachers to start on the right foot, offering research-backed advice and experience an educator who has been in the profession throughout these shifts - and who has ledher school to adopt best practices in reading instruction. Written in a friendly, accessible, and practical style, this brief, colorful book will provide answers to the most critical questions early-career teachers have about reading instruction, providing the MOST critical things a new teacher can do and know to have the most success in teaching reading as well as next steps toward thriving as a reading teacher"--
Teach reading right with just-in-time expert advice!A lot has changed in reading instruction over the past decades, with old assumptions and tired curricula making way for both trusted and new best practices. This book offers research-backed, classroom-tested guidance to set you on the right path. Through practical teaching strategies, classroom examples, actionable steps, further reading suggestions, and more, you’ll learn to Build and maintain an inclusive, equitable classroom reading community Structure, organize, and plan student-centered, responsive reading instruction Design and implement effective, compassionate assessment methods Engage and empower students to develop agency as readers