Breaking Reading Barriers in Grades Four to Twelve

Breaking Reading Barriers in Grades Four through Twelve is a user friendly source of tried & true strategies to teach reading in the upper grades. Piloted in a university lab school, ten vocabulary & ten comprehensive strategies are detailed with student work samples & procedures for before reading, during reading & post reading activities. These interactive strategies fit all curricular areas & grade levels. Sixty-two per cent of college level developmental reading students gained two years in comprehension by the end of a fourteen week semester using these strategies. Breaking Reading Barriers would be a great resource for hands-on teacher in service sessions using the district's textbooks. It structures active learning in every classroom & is a must for professional libraries atelementary, middle & high schools! Contact the authors at bobmcc12@bellsouth.net for more information.Phyllis Lewis Simpson is the author of 'Breaking Reading Barriers in Grades Four to Twelve', published 1998 under ISBN 9780970314703 and ISBN 0970314701.