Develop successful readers with these strategies for before, during, and after reading. In Building Literacy Through Small-Group Instruction, Gail Saunders-Smith describes the cognitive processes of emergent readers and provides educators with clear guidelines for promoting reading comprehension with small groups of young learners. A variety of exercises included helps children to locate, record, retrieve, and manipulate information from texts, while enabling teachers to measure how students respond in oral, written, graphic, and three-dimensional forms. Topics covered include: - Aliteracy - Coaching statements - Elements of craft - False positive readers - Fresh text - Guided reading - Instructional practice - Metacognition - Phonemic awareness - Self-monitoring - Shared reading - Sight words - Study skills - Teacher talk - Workable words - and more!

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