Seven Strategies of Highly Effective Readers
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Seven Strategies of Highly Effective Readers by Elaine K Mcewan-Adkins
This essential reading instruction teaching tool offers hard evidence to show how effective readers use specific strategies to extract and comprehend information.
"The strengths of this book are manyIt translates theory into practice, showing how a solid theory can inform one′s teaching." -- Stevi Quate, Co-director of the Secondary Literacy Network
"Very comprehensive! It contains everything a teacher needs to guide students in comprehension." -- Aileen Carew, Marin Reading Council President & Reading Specialist
"With a veteran teacher’s insight, Elaine McEwan presents practical instructional activities to which all of my students have responded, even my most reluctant readers. I would recommend this book to both reading and content area teachers." -- Larry Snyder, 8th Grade Language Arts Teacher
"Very comprehensive! It contains everything a teacher needs to guide students in comprehension." -- Aileen Carew, Marin Reading Council President & Reading Specialist
"With a veteran teacher’s insight, Elaine McEwan presents practical instructional activities to which all of my students have responded, even my most reluctant readers. I would recommend this book to both reading and content area teachers." -- Larry Snyder, 8th Grade Language Arts Teacher
Elaine K. McEwan is an educational consultant with The McEwan-Adkins Group, offering professional development for educators to assist them in meeting the challenges of literacy learning in Grades Pre K-6. A former teacher, librarian, principal, and assistant superintendent for instruction in several suburban Chicago school districts, Elaine is the award-winning and best-selling author of more than three dozen books for educators. Her Corwin Press titles include Raising Reading Achievement in Middle and High Schools: Five Simple-to-Follow Strategies for Principals, Second Edition (2006), Seven Strategies of Highly Effective Readers: Using Cognitive Research to Boost K-8 Achievement (2004), Ten Traits of Highly Effective Principals: From Good to Great Performance (2003), Making Sense of Research: What’s Good, What’s Not, and How to Tell the Difference (2003), Seven Steps to Effective Instructional Leadership, Second Edition (2003), Teach Them ALL to Read: Catching the Kids Who Fall through the Cracks (2002), and Ten Traits of Highly Effective Teachers: How to Hire, Mentor, and Coach Successful Teachers (2001). McEwan was honored by the Illinois Principals Association as an outstanding instructional leader, by the Illinois State Board of Education with an Award of Excellence in the Those Who Excel Program, and by the National Association of Elementary School Principals as the National Distinguished Principal from Illinois for 1991. She received her undergraduate degree in education from Wheaton College and advanced degrees in library science (MA) and educational administration (EdD) from Northern Illinois University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780761946212 |
| ISBN 10 | 0761946217 |
| Title | Seven Strategies of Highly Effective Readers |
| Author | Elaine K Mcewan-Adkins |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc |
| Year published | 2004-06-03 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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