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The following are strategies that currently reflect "best practice" in reading instruction. Questions about them often appear on specialty tests that strive to assess both knowledge of principles and processes. These strategies supplement many of those more fully discussed in the text. | | Print, multimedia, and Internet resources: explore the materials available to you. | |
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 The syllabus covers a fifteen-week course in reading methods that includes a practicum. Course work is for a period of seven to ten weeks, and the practicum is for the remainder of the time. |  For each chapter you'll find helpful information such as a chapter outline, a spotlight on vocabulary, a list of additonal instructional media, and classroom ideas and additional strategies. |
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 Enhance classroom lectures with visual presentations. |  Here you will find a correlation to the video
clips that appear on the CD for Teaching Reading in Today's Elementary
Schools, 9/e that are appropriate to show in your middle school
course. |
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 A complete test bank is offered for each chapter including: multiple choice items, completion items, essay/case analysis items, and performance assessment ideas. | |
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