Reading Champions! Second Edition: Teaching Reading Made Easy Rita M. Wirtz MA @RitaWirtz
BOOK SUMMARY
Reading Champions, Teaching Reading Made Easy, Second Edition You?ll love this jam packed resource guide, a truly practical grab bag of ready-to-use reading mini-lessons. Take your pick of directed reading activities, engaging strategies and a wealth of common sense, extraordinarily effective practice activities sure to engage learning diverse students. Author and seasoned reading instructor and language arts specialist, Mrs. Rita Wirtz provides time-tested tips and success secrets for parents, tutors, and teachers helping transform scholars-in-waiting into reading champions. Commonsense, time-tested reading recipes in this user friendly book provide a step-by-step framework to successfully teach the fundamentals of reading: Phonics ? Spelling ? Vocabulary ? Fluency ? Comprehension Everybody?s a reading teacher now, so you need this teaching resource. You?ll definitely appreciate directed reading activities, surefire strategies, effective shortcuts, ready-to-use mini-lessons, and useful interventions. Rita also shares engaging anchor charts, formats, phonics origami, games, skill-builder and booster activities for students of any age and reading skill level. With a focus on phonics instruction and reading for meaning, help your students: ? Recognize new words ? Correct basic challenges and reading errors ? Increase reading rate and fluency ? Boost vocabulary and spelling ? Practice comprehension strategies ? Build confidence as readers Best of all, discover ways to motivate kiddos to become capable, confident readers who love to read! Every child a great reader. Here?s how!
RITA WIRTZ
@RitaWirtz
Rita Wirtz holds a BA in English and speech, a master’s degree in reading from Arizona State University (ASU), and an administrative services credential (K–12) through California State University–Sacramento (CSUS). She is a California language arts and reading specialist who has instructed at all levels including K-12 classrooms, labs, and clinics for more than 40 years. Rita was also a HS English teacher, principal (pre-6th), college prof., ESEA program evaluator, curriculum developer and keynote speaker. She currently lives in Oregon.