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What Every Principal Should Know About Teaching Reading: How to Raise Test Scores and Nurture a Love of Reading
What Every Principal Should Know About Teaching Reading How to Raise Test Scores and Nurture a Love of Reading Author:Marie Carbo Reading instruction is one of the top priorities for any building principal today. Students' ability to read has become one of the critical measures of every school's success—and a task at which too many schools fall woefully short. A dramatically effective solution to the teaching of reading exists, however, and it's being used by princip... more »als and teachers all across the United States. This approach to reading instruction, created by Dr. Marie Carbo, is known as Reading Styles. It allows teachers to gain a detailed understanding of their students' strengths and preferences and then identify the best way to work with each one. This important book details exactly how children's lives can be changed—have been changed—by the application of the Reading Styles approach. Dr. Carbo provides classroom-based, research-proven examples of how to strengthen reading program using children's Reading Styles, how to achieve high reading gains with modeling strategies and the Carbo Recorded-Book® Method, how to improve test scores, how to evaluate reading programs, and how to start an exemplary reading program (using examples from three model schools).« less