Teaching Emergent Readers: Collaborative Library Lesson Plans

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The purpose of this book is to give media specialists, teachers and/or teacher helpers and parents a guide to using beginning chapter books to encourage first and second graders to read independently. The book contains in-depth lesson plans for 35 early chapter books. Each lesson contains bibliographic information plus setting, characters, plot, solution, and book summary. Activities for the media specialist to provide schema, prediction, fluency, and information literacy skill instruction is provided as well. Teacher activities included address phonics, phonemic awareness, decoding, fluency, and the comprehension strategies of recall, inference, and synthesis. Each book section also features a parent take-home page of extension/enrichment ideas.

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Recommended. If you need a book of comprehensive lesson plans for using early chapter books, this one is well done. It is also useful for those of you who have a fixed schedule in your library and see this age group regularly. * Teacher Librarian *
Starred Review Teaching Emergent Readers is an excellent way to introduce and use literature with young readers. It will aid teachers and media specialists in motivating students, in teaching and/or reviewing information literacy skills as well as providing a means for students to improve their understanding of literature.This book is an excellent resource for the seasoned as well as the new media specialist or teacher. It provides easy-to-use format for lesson planning. Highly Recommended. * Library Media Connection *

Author Bio

Judy Sauerteig is Media Coordinator, Cherry Creek Academy, Englewood, Colorado.