Good-bye Round Robin: 25 Effective Oral Reading Strategies [Paperback]

Michael F. Opitz (Author), Timothy Rasinski (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0325000980 | ISBN-13: 978-0325000985 | Publication Date: November 3, 1998

The authors' aim is to show where oral reading fits in the reading program and share twenty-five of the best strategies for helping children learn to read aloud.

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About the Author

A former elementary school teacher and reading specialist, Michael Opitz is a professor of reading at the University of Northern Colorado. He is well known to individual teachers, instructional leaders, and researchers as the author of numerous professional and curricular resources and through extensive PD work in schools nationwide. TEACHER PROFESSIONAL BOOKS Titles with Heinemann - Accessible Assessment: How 9 Sensible Techniques Can Power Data-Driven Reading Instruction (2011) - Comprehension and English Language Learners: 25 Oral Reading Strategies That Cross Proficiency Levels (2009) - Do-able Differentiation: Varying Texts, Supports and Groups to Reach Readers (2008) - Good-bye Round Robin (1998/2008) - Books and Beyond: New Ways to Reach Readers (2006) - Listen Hear! 25 Ways to Enhance Listening Comprehension (2005) - Reaching Readers: Flexible and Innovative Strategies for Guided Reading (2001) - Rhymes and Reasons: Literature and Language Play for Phonological Awareness (2000) - Reading Diagnosis and Improvement: Assessment and Instruction, 6th ed. (Allyn & Bacon, 2011) - Literacy Lessons to Help Kids Get Fit and Healthy (Scholastic, 2010) - Don't Speed. Read! 12 Steps for Smart and Sensible Fluency Instruction (Scholastic, 2007) - Flexible Grouping in Reading (Scholastic, 1998) - Literacy Instruction for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students (IRA, 1998) - Getting the Most from Predictable Books (Scholastic, 1995) - Learning Centers: Getting Them Started, Keeping Them Going (Scholastic, 1994) CORE, SUPPLEMENTAL, AND RTI PROGRAMS - Pair-It Extreme (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010), a supplemental reading program aimed at engaging boys with reading - Literacy by Design (Rigby, 2008), a supplemental literacy and RtI program - Intervention by Design (Rigby, 2009), an intervention program tailored to children who need additional help with reading - Summer Success Reading (Great Source, 2007), a reading program designed to help children who need additional help with reading - Afterschool Achiever's Reading Club (Great Source, 2003) - Daybooks, Grades 3 - 5 (Great Source, 2008, contributing author) ARTICLES Mike is the author of more than 20 articles in peer-reviewed journals such as: - The Reading Teacher - Literacy Research and Instruction - Reading Horizons AWARDS AND HONORS Mike has received more than 15 awards for his teaching, scholarship, and service to professional organizations, including the Fannie Stabenow Award rom the Colorado Council of the International Reading Association. LEADERSHIP ROLES - Editorial Boards of The Reading Teacher and Reading Horizons - Former Chair of IRA's Teacher Educator Award Committee - Numerous committees in CCIRA PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Michael Opitz provides on- and off-site professional development through Heinemann Professional Development.

Timothy Rasinski is the coauthor of the Heinemann title Good-bye Round Robin, Updated Edition (2008). He is a professor of curriculum and instruction at Kent State University and directs its award-wiining clinic for struggling readers. He has written and edited numerous books and professional articles on reading education and coedited the IRA journal The Reading Teacher as well as the Journal of Literacy Research. A past president of the College Reading Association, Raskinski recently served on IRA's board of directors.

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Heinemann (November 3, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0325000980
• ISBN-13: 978-0325000985
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 6.8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #606,163 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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105 of 107 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars There's a strategy to fit your teaching style!, May 10, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Good-bye Round Robin: 25 Effective Oral Reading Strategies (Paperback)

Good-bye Round Robin contains 25 oral reading strategies that stay away from traditional round-robin reading. Included in each strategy description are sections where teachers explain how they use/manage that strategy, extentions on the strategy are provided, and book/poem titles are suggested. Many chapters include easy reference check lists that tell which strategies can be used to assess which skills, as well as record keeping check lists created specifically for that strategy....a real time saver. Having over 17 years teaching experience, it was reassuring to know that I stumbled upon some of the explained strategies in my career (and they're good). The book also gave me new strategies (and variations on old ones) that I can use in my middle school classroom. I recommend this book to starting teachers who are looking to add to their "tool belt" of skills, and to veteran teachers who are seeking effective, meaningful oral reading strategies.

68 of 69 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great strategies for teaching children how to read!, March 29, 2000

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Cathy S Byrne (South Elgin, Illinois) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Good-bye Round Robin: 25 Effective Oral Reading Strategies (Paperback)

Harris and Hodges (1995) define round-robin reading as "the outmoded practice of calling on students to read orally one after another." Allington (1984) goes on to note "...oral reading is a form of assessment or practice but often without a clearly developed, or delivered, instructional focus." Oral reading is important and the authors of this book share how to use oral reading in the most effective and efficient ways possible. This book provides effective oral reading strategies that teachers can use to best teach all children to read. The research-based information is well-organized and easy to read. For every oral reading strategy presented, the skills that each strategy helps children develop is given. In addition, for each oral reading strategy teaching suggestions, title suggestions, extensions, tips, and connections are listed. The "Involving Parents" chapter reviews ways that oral reading can be used at home and the "Guiding Assessment" chapter is devoted to oral reading as a tool for assessment and within that chapter one can find specific strategies and many reproducible forms. This book is a wonderful resource for teachers, tutors, and parents.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Round Robin Review by Dr. Kimberly Tyson, November 2, 2006

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Kimberly Tyson (Indianapolis, IN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Good-bye Round Robin: 25 Effective Oral Reading Strategies (Paperback)

I love this book because it offers easy-to-implement fluency strategies. A teacher I work with calls it her "Fluency Bible" and keeps it next to the guided reading area in the classroom. I give this book away to every school that I work with and every workshop I conduct on Reading Fluency! Easy to read - practical - strategy & research-based - it's the best!