In this resource, you'll get the "big picture" of teaching reading in the middle school, including research, as well as the practical details you need to help every student become a better reader. Veteran teacher Laura Robb shares how to: teach reading strategies across the curriculum; present mini-lessons that deepen students' knowledge of how specific reading strategies work; help kids apply the strategies through guided practice; support struggling readers with a plan of action that improves their reading motivation; helps kids choose books that are at their instructional level; organize a reading-writing workshop, and much more. For use with Grades 5 and Up.
About Laura Robb
Author, teacher, coach, and speaker, Laura Robb has completed 43years of teaching in grades 4-8. She presently coaches teachers in reading/writing workshop at Powhatan School in Virginia and coaches teachers in grades K-8 in Staunton, Virginia, Long Island, and Ann Arbor, ichigan, and West Nyack, New York.
She has written more than 16 books for teachers -- her most recent titles are her 476 page binder, Teaching Reading: A Complete Resource for Grades 4 and Up, and a big book for teaching reading strategies, Teaching Reading With Think Aloud Lessons. In addition, Robb has penned these best sellers for Scholastic: Nonfiction Writing From the Inside Out: Lessons for Teaching all Elements of the Craft, Inspired by Conversations with Leading Authors, Teaching Reading in Middle School, Teaching Reading in Social Studies, Science, and Math, Grammar Strategies and Lessons That Strengthen Students' Writing
Look for Robb's newest Scholastic book: Differentiating Reading Instruction shows teachers in grades 4 and up how to meet the divertse needs of classes with mixed reading levels.
Robb has just completed a major work on writing for Heinemann called: Teaching Middle School Writers--available April, 2010. She has completed a second edition of Teaching Reading in Middle Schoolthat will be available in June, 2010.
Robb has designed classroom libraries for Scholastic. Presently, Robb has classroom libraries for grades 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. She also works with Scholastic to customize classroom libraries when school districts request tailoring purchases to their specific needs.
A co-author for The Great Source's Daybooks and Sourcebooks, Grades 2, 3, 4, and 5, Robb also co-authored The Great Source's Summer Success Reading Program for Grades K-8, their Reading Handbook for grades 6-8, one for grades 4-5, and one for grade 3. Presently, Robb is the senior author of Reading Advantage, a Great Source program for middle and high school students who read two to eight years below grade level.
Robb is the lead author for the revision of the Daybooks for grades 3 to 5.
Robb has completed a three year term on the National Council of Teachers of English Commission on Reading. Robb and commission colleagues have written a book on literacy for NCTE called:What Research Really Says About Teaching and Learning to Read, edited by Dr. Steve Kucer. . She's also served on the editorial review board for Language Arts magazine. Robb wrote the "Motivating Readers' Column for Instructor Magazine for 1996-1998. She's also collected two poetry anthologies: Snuffles and Snouts illustrated by Steven Kellogg (Dial, 1995) and Music and Drum illustrated by Deborah Lill (Philomel, 1997).
Robb is a keynote speaker at conferences all over the country, trains teachers on differentiating reading instruction and writes articles for education journals.
