Teaching Reading with Jamestown: Strategies and Instruction

• Help new teachers organize a reading course
• Use successful, research-based reading strategies while teaching any subject
• Organize your Jamestown materials into an effective reading curriculum
• Place students in the correct levels of Jamestown books
• Teaching Reading with Jamestown provides all the support needed for the teaching of reading!

Whether you are a professional in the field of reading or an instructor whose specialization lies elsewhere, using this guide will help you maximize your students' abilities and augment their reading skills. This new reading guide will help you:

• Construct effective three-part reading lessons
• Use research-based strategies to improve fluency and comprehension
• Utilize proven techniques to develop vocabulary
• Organize and plan instruction
• Compare your classroom goals against national standards

Includes mini-lessons that can be applied to any reading materials, additional strategies for use with your Jamestown books, graphic organizers, and a placement test to help you start students off at an appropriate reading level. The placement test was developed by Edward B. Fry, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University and author of Jamestown's Reading Improvement series and the Fry Readability Scale.

Use Teaching Reading with Jamestown to:

• Organize your staff development programs
• Train teachers new to the field of reading
• Get optimal use out of your Jamestown books