If you enjoy using children’s literature in the classroom but need to teach traditional reading skills, this is the book for you. Balancing traditional and literature-based instruction, you can teach more than 150 skills commonly found in basal readers with these creative lessons. From alphabet and alphabetization to word recognition, this book reconciles your need to teach basic skills with your love of the best of children’s literature. Grades K-3.

If you are trying to teach skills found on standardized tests while using the children’s literature you’ve grown to use, you’ll want this book! Balancing traditional and literature-based instruction, you can teach more than 150 skills commonly found in basal readers with these creative lessons. From alphabetization to oral reading to parts of speech, this book gives you lessons to teach strategies such as semantic feature analysis, attribute charts, genre analysis, wordplay, and many more. Grades 3-6.

This classic has sold more than 4,000 copies since its publication. Practical strategies for classroom management are coupled with chapters on topics such as teaching research projects, folk tales, and poetry. No teacher will want to miss the list of 125 alternatives to the standard book report. Now available only through StoryCart® Press in limited quantities for the special price of $20.00.

As many teachers find, it is often not enough to simply surround the elementary school student with good literature and implement a reading program. A reading methods text must first identify how to teach reading in order to be effective. In Teaching Reading: From Process to Practice, Barchers provides teacher with an integrated literature approach to developing a reading program for K-8 students, combining the best of both basal readers and literature.