Reading Without Limits: Teaching Strategies to Build Independent Reading for Life Book

Foreword by Dave Levin ix

Preface: Getting the Most out of This Book xiii

Acknowledgments xxi

About the Author xxiii

Introduction: What Is Reading Without Limits? 1

PART 1 LAUNCHING LIFELONG READERS

1 Finding Students' Reading Levels 25

PART 2 STEPS TO CREATING LIFELONG READERS

2 Teaching Students to Understand What They Read 49

3 Choice Reading to Encourage a Ton of Reading 79

4 Shared Reading to Teach, Reinforce, and Challenge 116

5 Guided Reading to Move Students Along Their Continuum 145

PART 3 PUTTING THE POWER OF CHOICE, SHARED, AND GUIDED READING TO WORK IN YOUR CLASSROOM OR SCHOOL

6 Make It Visible 171

7 Muscle Memory Routines 185

8 What to Do When Choice, Shared, or Guided Reading Isn't Working 209

PART 4 STEPS TO ENHANCE LIFELONG READERS

9 Reading Conferences, Our Aha Moments 225

10 Teaching Vocabulary 248

11 Class Discussion 270

12 Standardized Tests 289

13 Testing 1, 2, 3 . . . Testing 306

PART 5 PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER

14 Planning a Lesson 329

15 Building the Reading Without Limits Program 344

Appendix A List of Children's and Young Adult Texts Referenced and Recommended 357

References 362

Notes 370

Index 380