Goodbye Round Robin: 25 Effective Oral Reading Strategies » (1st Edition)

Former elementary school teacher and reading specialist, Dr. Michael F. Opitz is a professor of reading at the University of Northern Colorado where he teaches undergraduate and graduate literacy courses and works with doctoral candidates. He is the author and coauthor of several books including Literacy Lessons to Help Kids Get Fit and Healthy (Scholastic, 2010), Comprehension and English Language Learners: 25 Oral Reading Strategies that Cross Proficiency Levels (Heinemann,2009), Do-able Differentiation: Varying Texts, Supports and Groups to Reach Readers (Heinemann, 2008), Don't Speed! Read! 12 Steps for Smart and Sensible Fluency instruction (Scholastic, 2007), Reading Diagnosis and Improvement: Assessment and Instruction, 6th ed. (Allyn & Bacon, 2010), Books and Beyond: New Ways to Reach Readers (Heinemann, 2006) Listen Hear! 25 Ways to Enhance Listening Comprehension (Heinemann, 2005), Reaching Readers: Flexible and Innovative Strategies for Guided Reading (Heinemann, 2001), Rhymes and Reasons: Literature and Language Play for Phonological Awareness (Heinemann, 2000), Good-bye Round Robin (Heinemann, 1998/2008), Flexible Grouping in Reading (Scholastic, 1998), and Literacy Instruction for Culturally and linguistically Diverse Students (IRA, 1998). He is also an author of Extreme Pair-It (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009), a supplemental reading program aimed at engaging boys with reading, Literacy By Design (Rigby, 2008), a supplemental literacy program, Intervention by Design) (Rigby, 2009), an intervention program tailored to children who need additional help with reading, Summer Success Reading (Great Source, 2007), a reading program designed to help children who need additional help with reading as well as Afterschool Achiever's Reading Club (Great Source, 2003). Michael is also a contributing author of the revised Daybooks, grades 3-5 (Great Source, 2008). Michael's articles appear in professional and trade journals. Michael works in selected classrooms in the U.S. and abroad planning, teaching, and evaluating demonstration lessons focused on different aspects of literacy. He provides in-service and staff development sessions, serves as a consultant, and presents at state and international conferences.

Timothy Rasinski is the coauthor of the Heinemann title Good-bye Round Robin, Updated Edition (2008). He is a professor of curriculum and instruction at Kent State University and directs its award-wiining clinic for struggling readers. He has written and edited numerous books and professional articles on reading education and coedited the IRA journal The Reading Teacher as well as the Journal of Literacy Research. A past president of the College Reading Association, Raskinski recently served on IRA's board of directors.

Good-bye Round Robin offers numerous practical suggestions for engaging English language learners in meaningful oral-language activities, all connected to wonderful, recently-published books for students of different ages and reading abilities. Opitz' book provides specific strategies teachers can use to help their ELLs develop both oral and written English proficiency. This book is an excellent resource for any teacher, but it is an especially useful resource for teachers of English language learners.

- Yvonne and David Freeman

Authors of Essential Linguistics and Teaching Reading in Multilingual Classrooms

Oral reading can increase the comprehension, fluency, and strategic thinking of every reader - if you have the right strategies. Good-bye Round Robin, Updated Edition, gives you the 25 best ways to turn oral reading into one of your most effective literacy tools.

Good-bye Round Robin, Updated Edition, makes it easy to work the right amount and the right types of oral reading into your teaching. Michael Opitz and Timothy Rasinski present proven oral-reading strategies, every one of which fits easily into your existing literacy block routines.

And this Updated Edition goes further than ever to help you get the most from every oral-reading opportunity. It's newly designed to help you match readers to instruction more quickly and confidently. Opitz and Rasinski have revised and expanded their booklists to include over 300 new children's literature titles, enabling you to choose the best book for your lessons and your readers. What's more they offer classroom-tested ways to use oral reading to support struggling readers and English learners at all stages of language acquisition.

Use Good-bye Round Robin, Updated Edition, and make the most of oral reading.

1 Understanding reading 1

2 Developing comprehension 13

3 Sharing and performing 43

4 Helping struggling readers 67

5 Guiding assessment 85

6 Involving parents 101

7 Answering questions about oral reading 111

App. A More recommended children's literature by Strategy 120

App. B Recommended websites by Strategy 125

Works cited 129