Teaching Emergent Readers - Collaborative Library Lesson Plans (Paperback)

A guide to using beginning chapter books to encourage young children to read independently. The purpose of this book is to give media specialists, teachers and/or teacher helpers and parents a guide to using beginning chapter books to encourage 4-6 year old children to read independently. The book contains in-depth lesson plans for 35 early chapter books. Each lesson contains bibliographic information plus setting, characters, plot, solution and book summary. In addition activities are included for the media specialist to provide schema, prediction, fluency and information literacy skill instruction. Teacher activities address phonics, phonemic awareness, decoding, fluency and the comprehension strategies of recall, inference and synthesis. The book is entirely made up of reproducible pages, and each book section also features a parent take-home page of extension/enrichment ideas. Contains lesson plans for books for young readers. Each book section contains 3 pages designed for use by teachers and teacher librarians.