Cathy M Collins

Time Management for Teachers: Techniques and Skills That Give You More Time to Teach

126 Strategies to Build Language Arts Abilities: A Month-By-Month Resource

Teaching Thinking: An Agenda for the Twenty-First Century

Literacy Difficulties: Diagnosis and Instruction for Reading Specialists and Classroom Teachers (2nd Edition)

The purpose of this book is to prepare teachers to meet the reading and writing needs of students whose progress is not moving as rapidly as their peers'. Class-tested for two years in courses at the University of Georgia, Monmouth University, and the University of Notre Dame, Literacy Difficulti...

The Vocabulary-Enriched Classroom: Practices for Improving the Reading Performance of All Students in Grades 3 and Up (Theory and Practice)

A student’s ability to read depends largely on the size and quality of his or her vocabulary. However, despite that fact, vocabulary instruction has not evolved to the same degree as instruction in word recognition, comprehension, and other areas of literacy. This book will change that. Containing s...

Learning to Read: Lessons from Exemplary First-Grade Classrooms

An important goal in every first-grade classroom is to get children reading--but how? This book examines current research on first-grade literacy instruction, and shows how it translates into what good teachers really do in the classroom. The authors, premier early literacy scholars and educators, d...

Comprehension Instruction: Research-Based Best Practices

Comprehension instruction is widely recognized as an essential component of developing students' pleasure and profit from reading. Yet despite significant recent gains in knowledge about how comprehension develops and how it can be taught effectively, classroom practice still lags behind research in...

Teaching Comprehension: The Comprehension Process Approach

Teaching Comprehension is unparalleled to any other text in its coverage of how to teach reading comprehension to students of all ages. Renowned scholar Cathy Collins Block takes on the challenging task of providing what every student needs to know about teaching comprehension, in a concise manner. ...

Comprehension Instruction, Second Edition: Research-Based Best Practices (Solving Problems in the Teaching of Literacy)

This comprehensive professional resource and text is based on cutting-edge research. In each chapter, leading scholars provide an overview of a particular aspect of comprehension, offer best-practice instructional guidelines and policy recommendations, present key research questions still to be answ...

Reading First and Beyond: The Complete Guide for Teachers and Literacy Coaches

Packed with enriching ideas for all educators, this guide summarizes the key areas of the Reading First program to provide a comprehensive understanding of its components.