Real–Life Reading Activities for Grades 6–12: Over 200 Ready–to–Use Lessons and Activities to Help Students Master Practical Reading Skills - Softcover

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.

James F. Silver, Professor Emeritus in Residence at The College of New jersey in Trenton, is a former middle/junior high school teacher, K-8 principal, and New jersey certified reading specialist. This is his fifth teacher resource published by The Center for Applied Research in Education. Mr. Silver lives in Pennington, NJ.