The Joyful Reading Resource Kit: Teaching Tools, Hands-On Activities, and Enrichment Resources, Grades K-8

All children deserve a chance to learn to love reading. TheJoyful Reading Resource Kit offers teachers an impressive array oftools, resources, and activities for getting students at all levelsexcited about reading while developing their proficiency incomprehension. Serving as a companion to Joyful Reading, the bookoffers teachers everything they need to implement the SchoolwideEnrichment Model in Reading (SEM-R), a differentiated instructionalapproach that encourages students to read independently for aperiod of time each day on books of their own choice. Implementedin three phases, the SEM-R program has been shown by research toimprove fluency and comprehension among at-risk students. TheJoyful Reading Resource Kit includes:

• Reproducible "bookmarks" for scaffolding students in criticalthinking and comprehension activities

• Extensive lists of recommended books

• Tips for supporting students in selection of appropriatelychallenging books

• Materials for managing independent reading in the classroom, including log sheets, five-minute conference tips, writing prompts, assessment rubrics, and a reading growth chart

• Exciting enrichment resources to develop students' readinginterests, including a survey form, online books, Web-basedactivities, and Renzulli Learning resources

• Hands-On Creativity activities that help students elaborateideas, develop fluency, brainstorm, and much more

• Reproducible X-ploration projects on varied topics that studentscan pursue independently at their own pace

The Joyful Reading Resource Kit is a vital compendium not onlyfor classroom teachers but also for parents and after-schooleducators who wish to support students in discovering the richrewards and delights of reading.