Simple Starts Making the Move to a Reader-Centered Classroom 1st Edition – (PDF/EPUB Version)

You don’t become an amazing reading teacher all at once. Someone shows you where to begin. Someone who has taught every kind of reader and coached teachers just like you. Someone like Kari Yates. Simple Starts is Kari’s getting-started guide to creating the reading classroom of your dreams—and your students’. Teacher to teacher, she distills research and best practice into essentials that help you:

Engage readers with books they’ll love
Provide kids the time for reading and discussion
Nurture independence through choice
Guide students’ growth and yours by asking “What’s next?”
Conversational, practical, and inspirational, Simple Starts is filled with teaching strategies, quick reflection charts, example anchor charts, and teacher know-how from thirty years in classrooms and schools.

“What’s next is simple,” writes Kari Yates. “You don’t have to know everything about books or reading. You just need to follow a few simple steps.” With Kari and Simple Starts you’ll do it. So come on in! Your kids are counting on you, and it’s time to bravely begin.