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NEW!
Moving Forward with RTI: Reading & Writing Activities for Every Instructional Setting & Tier (Heinemann, 2010)
Available for purchase from Heinemann Publishing
In her first book, RTI from All Sides, Mary Howard alerted teachers to the merits and potential missteps of Response to Intervention. In this follow-up guide, Mary provides teachers with the flexible literacy activities they need to move ahead with RTI and implement effective differentiated instruction in a variety of settings—including whole-group, guided practice, small-group, partner work, and independent learning. Through these instructional and reinforcement activities teachers gain the freedom to work with small groups of students and the confidence that all their students are on-task with meaningful, high-level work.
“We can’t warehouse students with decontextualized worksheets that promote passive learning and waste valuable time,” Mary explains. “I developed response forms as a vehicle for thinking using teacher modeling, partner work, and collaboration that revolves around rich dialogue. These concrete tools are deeply rooted in research-based reading, writing, and discussion practices that serve as a springboard for learning.” Each form and assessment sheet is carefully designed to cultivate daily rituals that introduce and support new learning while creating opportunities to promote student independence, encourage personal accountability, build long-term word knowledge, and make reading more purposeful and thoughtful. While ideal for tier 1 classroom instruction, these forms can be easily adjusted for tiers 2 and 3 when more intensity and teacher support is needed.
Building on her long-held belief that the key to RTI success is knowledgeable and empowered teachers, Mary Howard’s Moving Forward with RTI is designed to help you manage your class using a variety of interactive teaching and learning tools within and beyond the literacy block.
“If you’re a teacher trying to incorporate RTI into your day-to-day classroom practices, but you don’t quite know how to manage it, then this book will be a cherished, well-guarded resource you’ll want to chain to your desk.”
—Sharon Taberski
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RTI from All Sides: What Every Teacher Needs to Know (Heinemann, 2009)
Available for purchase from Heinemann Publishing
Response to Intervention (RTI) is here, but what do teachers need to know about it? As Mary Howard investigated that question, she was surprised: the more she knew about it, the more this “teacher’s teacher” was excited by it. That’s because RTI promises to use the great teaching you know to catch readers before they falter. With RTI from All Sides, she shows how to make RTI live up to its promise.
In RTI from All Sides, Howard points the way toward thoughtful and effective RTI—and away from potentially dangerous, rigid implementations. She offers suggestions for instructional design, collaboration, and troubleshooting—even for avoiding mediocre RTI products. Most important, she demonstrates how to apply the principles you trust to RTI:
- teaching reading and writing in authentic ways to help students choose just-right books that set them up to read in and out of school
- using simple, ongoing assessments to know when to intensify instruction inside and outside the regular classroom
- differentiating reading instruction to maintain the flow between whole-class, small-group, and one-on-one instruction while meeting specific students’ needs
- designing interventions to amplify instruction instead of sidelining students to skill-and-drill that takes them further from engaged, proficient reading
- coordinating efforts within and between instructional supports to emphasize acceleration through the targeted instruction students need to succeed.
In addition, Howard includes helpful questions that lead book study groups to a better understanding of RTI, its structure, its implementation, and its daily application.
RTI has the potential to return instructional decision-making to teachers and to galvanize schools to design effective practices for helping all readers achieve—especially those who struggle. Read RTI from All Sides and get the information you need to create a safety net that can save struggling readers before the learning gap widens forever.
“This book is desperately needed in districts and state departments everywhere. It is loaded with interventions that are right for kids and right for the educators who serve them. It profiles RTI as a framework for increasing intentional instruction…keeping the emphasis on knowledgeable educators rather than “programs.” If this book could become a prerequisite to implementation, I fully believe that the goals of RTI may well be realized.”
—Linda Hoyt, Author of Revisit, Reflect, Retell, Updated Edition
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NEW!
Response to Intervention: Using a Tiered Reading Model
to Build a Rich Framework
Book
$19.95
Book w/CD Set
$29.95
Get Mary’s book with a CD that has a pdf file of every student form in the book. This will make it easy to duplicate the forms for immediate use.
CD Alone
$14.95
The CD includes only pdf files of the forms with no descriptions. Purchase of this CD will be useless unless you already have a copy of the book.
Response to Intervention (RTI) is a powerful approach for addressing the literacy needs of students at a schoolwide level. A three-tiered reading model allows schools to create a rich framework of support that can be adjusted according to the needs of students. Tier one builds a strong foundation of success with a high quality general education program while alternative support options at increasing levels of instructional intensity are offered at tier 2 and tier 3. An RTI framework makes schools more instructionally responsive by creating a climate of differentiation that makes every teacher responsible for the literacy success of every child. Each support tier is carefully coordinated with the general reading program to provide the MORE students need within and across tiers.
In this new book, Mary illustrates how schools are achieving high success using the RTI model. She includes a detailed description of each tier and highlights the essential success factors of an RTI framework designed to meet the needs of all students. Learn dozens of powerful instructional strategies that can be implemented in any tier using open-ended learning activities. Make reading your priority with engaging strategies that can be easily adapted or integrated across all curriculum areas. |
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Solving the Comprehension Puzzle: Powerful Strategies to Enhance Meaning-Making for Struggling Readers
This book is the handbook for Mary’s Seminar, “Helping Struggling Readers”
Book
$24.95
Book w/CD Set
$34.95
Get Mary’s book with a CD that has a pdf file of every student form in the book. This will make it easy to duplicate the forms for immediate use.
CD Alone
$14.95
The CD includes only pdf files of the forms with no descriptions. Purchase of this CD will be useless unless you already have a copy of the book.
Comprehension is one of the most critical issues facing schools of today.
Without the ability to make sense of print, reading is little more than a fruitless effort. Comprehension reflects a key focus of reading instruction and application as we strive to design
a literacy program that brings this essential skill to the forefront. Exemplary teachers create
rich environments for struggling readers that enhance meaning-making on a daily basis using
powerful instructional strategies.
In Solving the Comprehension Puzzle, Dr. Mary Howard shares dozens of practical,
classroom-proven strategies that can be implemented immediately to strengthen any existing
reading program. Using an interdisciplinary approach that crosses all content areas, she offers
specific strategies that celebrate the unique needs of struggling students through flexible
approaches that support differentiated instruction. Discover how to easily make key adaptations
in your day-to-day instruction by embedding fluency, comprehension, vocabulary, decoding… and more…into every lesson.
Learn dozens of high-energy activities to add to your strategy toolbox that will engage the most
disengaged struggling readers through a dynamic multi-sensory approach that builds on the way
the brain learns. Gain a renewed sense of enthusiasm using strategy-rich suggestions that will
have an immediate impact on the reading proficiency of your struggling readers.
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The Ten Brains of Learning: Unlocking the Door to Powerful Literacy Instruction
60 Minute Audio CD
$14.95
Recently there has been an explosion of research on the human brain. The wealth of knowledge gleaned from coupling this research with what we know about literacy development has the potential to change the way we educate our children. Discover how "Ten Brains" of learning can either maximize or minimize learning, with specific strategies to avoid the pitfalls and enhance instruction both within and beyond the classroom. Learn the secrets of creating a rich learning environment focused on advancing literacy on a daily basis.
If your goals are to empower your students and optimize the learning experience, you have found your roadmap. Join Dr. Mary Howard on this remarkable journey of transforming education to guarantee the success of every child.
“Dr. Mary Howard provides teachers with the tools to facilitate learning everyday. Her knowledge of how the brain processes information helps teachers teach and students learn according to their strengths. It's refreshing to have so many practical and meaningful reading strategies teachers can use immediately.”
—Beverly James, Principal
For bulk orders of ten copies or more, contact Reading Connections about special discounted rates:
mhoward@drmaryhoward.com
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Turning Struggles into Successes
(Available as Book w/CD Set and Book w/DVD)
Book w/CD Set
$49.95
Book w/ DVD
$99.95
Multiple copies of the book are available at discounted rates with the purchase of this title. For information contact mhoward@drmaryhoward.com.
Dr. Mary Howard, passionate advocate for the struggling reader, presents this transformational seminar and delivers the tools necessary for making real and lasting change in today’s elementary classrooms. Using the most up-to-date brain research as a foundation, Dr. Howard turns theory into practical applications that make 100% effective instruction a potential reality for our schools. Become a dynamic force of change in the lives of your students, and watch their faces fill with wonder as you turn struggles into successes!
- 11 principles for creating a powerful literacy program grounded in research
- Step-by-step instructions for dozens of easy-to-implement strategies that enhance comprehension, fluency, sound-symbol relationships and sight word recognition
- Specific suggestions for adapting instruction to maximize success for every child
- Engaging strategies that use the brain-body connection to increase learning
- Varied activities that complement unique learning styles
- Creative ideas for building automaticity for long-term word learning
- Strategies for teaching children how to learn by building mental models
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Strategies for Literacy Instruction in the Primary Grades
(©1997)
$18.00
Suggestions for creating a successful literacy program in the primary classroom are provided to balance rich literacy experiences with instructional opportunities. Topics include both assessment and instructional strategies, with a focus on comprehension. The components of an effective lesson design are detailed, with step-by-step descriptions for enhancing decoding and comprehension through a variety of research based strategies. Specific suggestions are offered for creating a rich spelling program as well as strategies for involving parents in the literacy process. Both assessment and instructional forms are provided.
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Learning Strategies That Build Success
(©1997)
$20.00
This book is designed to offer specific research-based strategies for helping struggling readers in the elementary grades become more strategic readers. Beginning with a description of the characteristics of both active and passive readers, emphasis is on teaching children the same strategies used by successful readers. Strategies are organized by before, during and after reading strategies, with a description of critical considerations at each stage so that children assume a more active role throughout the reading process. Numerous specific strategies are clearly described at each stage of reading as well as strategies for teaching vocabulary and phonics. Over forty student graphic organizers are provided to support strategies recommended.
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Helping Struggling Readers in the Intermediate Grades
(©1997)
$20.00
This book is directed at helping your struggling readers in grade four to six develop critical reading strategies. Specific suggestions for flexible grouping and implementing support reading strategies are offered with a detailed section addressing outstanding comprehension strategies for both narrative and expository texts. Writing and vocabulary strategies are also suggested as well as a section on decoding and spelling. There are thirty-eight student graphic organizers designed to accompany many of the recommended strategies.
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Balancing the Process
(©1999)
$30.00
This book is solidly packed with over three hundred pages of research-based strategies for incorporating a balanced reading program. Topics include creating a more effective guided reading program and implementing literature circles. Extensive information is provided on designing a spelling program beyond the “test a week” mentality. Although the book is specifically written for the primary classroom, it has tremendous application throughout the elementary grades and can easily be modified.
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