Engaging Young Readers
Description
Engaging Young Readers
Practical Tools and Strategies to Reach All Learners
By L. Robert Furman
ISBN: 9781564847379
Published: April 2019
Length: 152 pages
This book features practical reading strategies for elementary students, with a focus on how technology can be used to improve the skills of a wide range of readers.
Educators must be able to engage with readers at every level. They must also be able to evaluate where each student lies on the continuum and improve students’ skills to bring them to the appropriate level. Engaging Young Readers is a beginner-level guide focusing on developmental reading strategies for elementary students at all stages, with guidance on how to use technology to improve the skills of beginning readers, struggling readers, reluctant readers, enriched readers and English Language Learners (ELLs).
Topics covered include:
- Using music as an instructional tool
- Choral reading and read alouds
- Graphic organizers
- Dramatic learning and literature circles
- Writing workshops
- And much more!
This book gives teachers the strategies and technology they need to meet their students where they are in their reading ability so they can move forward in their personalized skill development.
Audience: K-5 educators
About the Author
L. Robert Furman, Ed.D., is an educator, leader, speaker and author. He has received numerous awards, including being named one of the National School Boards Association’s 2015 “20 to Watch” in technology education. He is the principal at South Park Elementary Center near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
