Engaging Young Readers: Practical Tools and Strategies to Reach All Learners

Educators need to be able to engage with readers at every level, and part of their role is to evaluate where each student lies on the continuum and to improve their 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, exploring how technology can be used to improve the skills of a wide range of readers, including beginning readers, struggling readers, reluctant readers, enriched readers, and English Language Learners (ELLs).

Topics covered include:

Activating Prior Knowledge Rhyming as a Predictor
Phonological Awareness
Predictable-Patterned Reading
Using Music as an Instructional Tool
Choral Reading
Read Alouds
Graphic Organizers
Dramatic Learning
Questioning
Literature Circles
Writing Workshops

This book will give 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.