Promote Reading Gains with Differentiated Instruction: Ready-to-Use Lessons for Grades 3-5

Accelerate learning gains using differentiated instruction! This professional teaching resource supports educators with easy-to-use lessons that strengthen students’ reading skills. This book provides teachers with 36 lessons that support differentiated instruction in grades 3, 4, and 5. The lessons focus on four advanced reading skills: visualize, infer, draw conclusions, and compare/contrast. Written by literacy experts and authors Laura Robb, Tim Rasinski, and David Harrison, this book offer useful lessons and reading strategies that meet students’ diverse reading needs. The first part of this resource provides helpful information that supports the ready-to-implement lessons in the second part. These lessons create opportunities for individual and collective growth by reading, discussing, and writing about poems and texts. Build key literacy skills such as comprehension, critical thinking, vocabulary building, and word study with this teacher resource! | Accelerate learning gains using differentiated instruction! This professional development resource supports teachers with differentiated lessons that strengthen students’ reading skills and comprehension. | Laura Robb, M.S.Ed., is an author, teacher, coach, and speaker who has taught grades 4 to 8 for more than 40 years. In addition to speaking and consulting, she coaches K-8 teachers. Robb is a featured speaker at conferences and leads workshops in the United States and internationally. In 2016, Robb was NCTE’s recipient of the Richard W. Halle Award for Outstanding Middle Level Educator.
David Harrison, Litt. D, is a nationally acclaimed author and poet. He has written more than seventy-five books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for young readers and has been anthologized in countless others. His work has been translated into twelve languages and has been aired on television, radio, podcast, and video stream. David has authored many professional and classroom resources for teachers, including Partner Poems for Building Fluency: 40 Engaging Poems for Two Voices with Motivating Activities That Help Students Improve Their Fluency and Comprehension with Timothy Rasinski and Gay Fawcett. He has even created a video series, Let's Write This Week with David Harrison, that brings writing tips into the elementary classroom and offers graduate college credit for teachers. David holds degrees from Drury University and Emory University and holds honorary doctorates of letters from Missouri State University and Drury University where he is the current poet laureate. David Harrison Elementary School is named in his honor.

Dr. Timothy Rasinski is a professor emeritus of literary education at Kent State University and was previously director of its award-winning reading clinic. Dr. Rasinski is the author of numerous best-selling books, articles, and curriculum programs on literacy education and has co-authored many resources for Shell Education including, but not limited to, Greek & Latin Roots: Keys to Building Vocabulary, Starting with Prefixes and Suffixes, Practice with Prefixes, Vocabulary Ladders: Understanding Word Nuances series, Getting to the Roots of Content-Area Vocabulary series, Idioms and Other English Expressions series, Close Reading with Paired Texts series, Rhymes for the Times: Literacy Strategies through Social Studies, as well as TCM’s curriculum resource Building Vocabulary series.

Dr. Rasinski is a frequent, well-known presenter nationwide and in 2021, 2023, and 2026 was named one of the top 2% most-citied scientists in the world. His scholarly interests include reading fluency, word study, reading in the elementary and middle grades, and readers who struggle. Dr. Rasinski served a three-year term on the Board of Directors of the International Reading Association and was co-editor of The Reading Teacher, the world’s most widely read journal of literacy education. He has also served as co-editor of the Journal of Literacy Research. Dr. Rasinski is a former president of the College Reading Association and has won the A. B. Herr and Laureate Awards from the College Reading Association for his scholarly contributions to literacy education. In 2010, Dr. Rasinski was elected to the International Reading Hall of Fame, and in 2019 Dr. Rasinski was recipient of the International Literacy Association’s highest honor—the William S. Gray Citation of Merit—for his contributions to the field of literacy.

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"This book was a perfect fit for teachers in grades three to five, but could also be used in grades six to eight to boost the reading skill of students reading two or more years below their grade level because no grade level is printed on the reproducible lessons. This book became my annual gift to ELA teachers to read, study, and discuss with colleagues and then to collaborate as they planned using the differentiated lessons with students!"