Author(s): Rita M. Wirtz MA

Education

Reading Champions, Teaching Reading Made Easy, Second Edition You'll love this jam packed resource guide, a truly practical grab bag of ready-to-use reading mini-lessons. Take your pick of directed reading activities, engaging strategies and a wealth of common sense, extraordinarily effective practice activities sure to engage learning diverse students. Author and seasoned reading instructor and language arts specialist, Mrs. Rita Wirtz provides time-tested tips and success secrets for parents, tutors, and teachers helping transform scholars-in-waiting into reading champions. Commonsense, time-tested reading recipes in this user friendly book provide a step-by-step framework to successfully teach the fundamentals of reading: Phonics - Spelling - Vocabulary - Fluency - Comprehension Everybody's a reading teacher now, so you need this teaching resource. You'll definitely appreciate directed reading activities, surefire strategies, effective shortcuts, ready-to-use mini-lessons, and useful interventions. Rita also shares engaging anchor charts, formats, phonics origami, games, skill-builder and booster activities for students of any age and reading skill level. With a focus on phonics instruction and reading for meaning, help your students: - Recognize new words - Correct basic challenges and reading errors - Increase reading rate and fluency - Boost vocabulary and spelling - Practice comprehension strategies - Build confidence as readers Best of all, discover ways to motivate kiddos to become capable, confident readers who love to read Every child a great reader. Here's how