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The Scobre Press Teacher's Resource Guide
Connect with your struggling readers through high-interest supported reading.
Along with our high-interest fiction and nonfiction books, The Scobre Press Teacher's Resource Guide allows you to support your struggling and proficient readers by using the principles of differentiated instruction, while incorporating research-based strategies that get results..
Developing fluency, enhancing vocabulary, and learning to habitually use reading comprehension strategies when interacting with text, can only be perfected through practice. The Scobre Press Reading Program has been developed as a tool for teachers to incorporate into their classrooms, enticing their most reluctant readers to read independently and practice the skills used by proficient readers. Using the graphic organizers in our Teacher's Resource Guide as they read independently, struggling readers begin to improve comprehension, and ultimately, their love of reading.
Download an abbreviated 2008-2009 Teacher's Guide:
2008-2009 Teacher's Resource Guide
100K Adobe PDF
Features of The Scobre Press Teacher's Resource Guide
Reading Comprehension Strategies
In an effort to more effectively teach students these strategies, we created Supported Independent Reading. This new program allows students to read independently, while an instructor "scaffolds" them with activities designed to help them habitually interact with text--eventually doing so without any prompting. This process can be compared to being a coach of a sports team. As a coach, you wouldn't simply hand your athletes a ball and instruct them to play. Rather, you would begin by modeling a set of skills. Next, you would have the players practice those skills, stopping them when necessary. Finally, you would let them play. The process should be the same with reading. Handing your students books without teaching them the skills--reading comprehension strategies--will not help them to become better readers. The activities in this guide are intended as a "scaffold" to help struggling students attain the habits of proficient readers. In addition, the reading comprehension, discussion, and writing questions relating to each book are a great tool for assessment.
Reading Compreshensinon Questions and Answers.
Thoughtful essays appear in the back of each book, helping students to stop, think, and write as they read a chapter of a Scobre Press book. Questions require students to cite text as they go...
Character Education Lessons
Every book in The Scobre Press Reading Program has been centered around a character education theme. We have incorporated graphic organizers and exercises into this guide for character education. Using this guide and The Scobre Press in teaching about strong character will also have positive impacts on your students' reading comprehension skills. Our character education sequence is set up so that students are interacting with the text in the same way they do when learning comprehension strategies.
