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From: Teacher Librarian | Date: June 1, 2006| Author: Loertscher, David | Copyright information

READING IS OUR BUSINESS: HOW LIBRARIES CAN FOSTER READING COMPREHENSION

Sharon Grimes

A better title for this book would be something like How Teacher-Librarians Con Become Reading Teachers. Grimes, a teacher of the year in Baltimore County, MD, writes a clear explanation of how to teach reading comprehension through literature in the elementary school grades. She goes beyond the direct instruction of the classroom, where phonemic awareness and decoding are t...

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