Reading without limits: a practical step-by-step guide for helping kids become lifelong readers

This book is for you. It doesn’t matter whether you are a public, charter, private, or alternative education teacher: the Reading Without Limits program works in each one. Help for teachers to significantly raise student achievementThis handy guide and map gives teachers, schools, and districts the help they need to move their kids to the highest level of fervor, stamina, and love of learning and independent thinking. This book provides a unique structure of choice; shared and guided reading that rigorously prepares students for lifelong reading habits and high level literacy achievement that helps readers get to and through college. Structured in,"mild" "medium," and "spicy" steps, teachers and school leaders can mix and match the tools presented in order to fit individual needs that can sustainably be put in place in their classrooms as soon as tomorrow. All strategies presented are given from the perspective of what is most immediately helpful, practical, and sustainable.Offers a practical guide for fostering a love of learning and thinking in studentsEach chapter includes: assessments options; incorporating choice; options for special needs studentsAligns with Common Core state standards and includes a chapter on standardized testing "Reading Without Limits" is written for real teachers (who work late hours grading tests, making bulletin boards, attending basketball games, and getting phone calls about homework) who need to keep things practical!