Teaching Reading Fundamentals and Strategies with Social-Emotional Learning

Marjorie S. Schiering taught the use of interdisciplinary methods for the diverse learner using active engagement strategies in reading and thinking skills involving character development and SEL over five decades. From teaching children to read at the first, third, fifth and sixth grade levels, using student-centered differentiated instructional strategies for learners, the author became an international presenter, university professor of ELA, reading, children’s literature, short stories, children’s, and textbook author on topics involving preventing school violence, teaching creativity and interactive workbooks, to name three.

Preface

Introduction

Acknowledgments

Prelude

Part One: Reading Fundamentals 1-6

Chapter One: What Are You Thinking?

Chapter Two: What Are You Feeling? And Distinguishing Thinking from Feeling

Chapter Three: Memory Definition and Types of Memory

Chapter Four: Reading and Understanding = Comprehension

Chapter Five: Plot…Parts of a Story

Chapter Six: Character and Social-emotional Learning (SEL)



Part Two: Teaching Reading Strategies Prelude

Chapter Seven: Guidelines: Oral Reading Presentations + Silent Reading Directives

Chapter Eight: Forthcoming Chapters 9-14’s Content with Explanations



Part Three: Teaching Different Reading Stratagies

Chapter Nine: The Reciprocal Reading Strategy

Chapter Ten: Orton Gillingham Strategy (Catherine Colonna)

Chapter Eleven: Reader’s and Writer’s Workshop (Daniel Berger and Natalie Simpson-White)

Chapter Twelve: Shared Reading

Chapter Thirteen: Guided Reading (Joseph Aurilla, Danielle Bruno and Alessia Giliberti)

Chapter Fourteen: Balanced Literacy’s Independent Writing

Part Four: Teaching Reading Through Anecdotes and Short Stories

Chapter Fifteen: Anecdotes: Persons of Good Character

Chapter Sixteen: Short Stories

Part Five: Appendix A and B

Appendix A: Author’s Closing Thoughts

Appendix B: Author’s Poetry About Teaching