Real-Life Reading Activities for Grades 6-12

Download or read book Real-Life Reading Activities for Grades 6-12 written by James F. Silver and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2001-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For secondary reading specialists and English teachers, this practical resource provides over 200 ready-to-reproduce lessons and exercises to teach and reinforce basic reading skills with students of all abilities. Each lesson includes an Instructor's Page with background information and teaching suggestions followed by one or more Student Skill sheets designed for sequential development of skills that build to higher levels of reading proficiency within each section. Organized into 7 sections: Reading for Deeper Meanings, Reading and Vocabulary, Reading Diagrams: Charts, Tables & Graphs, Reading Pictures: Cartoons & Maps, Reading & Study Skills, Reading & Its Writing Connection, and Reading & Research. These lessons and activities are completely flexible and can be used with individual students or an entire class to meet particular corrective or remedial reading skill needs.