Growing Readers

Primary-grade teachers face an important challenge: teaching children how to read while enabling them to build good habits so they fall in love with reading.

Kathy Collins works at the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, Columbia University, as a Primary Reading Specialist. She taught first grade at P. S. 321 in Brooklyn, and she has worked in schools around the country as a staff developer and consultant on primary reading instruction

Chapter 1: Creating Classrooms for Learners, Thinkers, and Talkers; Chapter 2: Experiences in Literacy Throughout the Day; Chapter 3: Units of Study in a Primary Reading Workshop; Getting Ready: Setting the Tone and the Bottom Lines; Chapter 4: Readers Build Good Habits; Getting Ready: Behind-the-Scenes Work; Chapter 5: Readers Use Strategies to Figure Out Words; Getting Ready: Talk Amongst Yourselves; Chapter 6: Readers Think and Talk About Books to Grow Ideas; Getting Ready: Finding Reading Mentors and Setting Up Reading Centers; Chapter 7: Readers Pursue Their Interests in Books and Other Texts; Chapter 8: Readers Make Plans for Their Reading Lives