This handy guide gives teachers, schools, and districts the support they need to help their students achieve dramatic academic gains and become lifelong readers. Reading Without Limits provides a unique structure based on choice, shared, and guided reading that rigorously prepares students for high-level literacy achievement. Students will be raised to the highest level of fervor, love of learning, stamina, and independent thinking.
Written for real teachers (who work late hours grading tests, making bulletin boards, and coaching basketball games), this book keeps things practical. Teachers and school leaders can mix and match the tools presented in order to fit the individual needs of their students. The tools are written so that they can be implemented on Monday. Also included:
- Reading strategies that align with the Common Core State Standards
- Reading assessments
- Options for special needs students
- A chapter on how to integrate standardized testing
Along with hundreds of ready-to-use teaching strategies, Reading Without Limits comes with a website where teachers can download even more resources for free! www.reading-without-limits.com
Reading Without Limits is the first book offered in the KIPP Educator Series.KIPP, or the Knowledge Is Power Program, began in 1994. As of fall 2012, there are 125 KIPP schools in 20 states and the District of Columbia serving nearly 40,000 students climbing the mountain to and through college.
“This book isn’t just a tool for you to help get kids to pass a test. Maddie Witter gives teachers and leaders the tools to create lasting change in kids’ lives.”
—Wendy Kopp, Founder & CEO, Teach For America
“Insightful, detailed, original; Reading Without Limits is an outstanding guide for educators.”
—Deborah Kenny, Ph.D., Founder & CEO, Harlem Village Academies
This handy guide gives teachers, schools, and districts the support they need to help their students achieve dramatic academic gains and become lifelong readers. Reading Without Limits provides a unique structure based on choice, shared, and guided reading that rigorously prepares students for high-level literacy achievement. Students will be raised to the highest level of fervor, love of learning, stamina, and independent thinking.
Written for real teachers (who work late hours grading tests, making bulletin boards, and coaching basketball games), this book keeps things practical. Teachers and school leaders can mix and match the tools presented in order to fit the individual needs of their students. The tools are written so that they can be implemented on Monday. Also included:
- Reading strategies that align with the Common Core State Standards
- Reading assessments
- Options for special needs students
- A chapter on how to integrate standardized testing
Along with hundreds of ready-to-use teaching strategies, Reading Without Limits comes with a website where teachers can download even more resources for free! www.reading-without-limits.com
Reading Without Limits is the first book offered in the KIPP Educator Series.KIPP, or the Knowledge Is Power Program, began in 1994. As of fall 2012, there are 125 KIPP schools in 20 states and the District of Columbia serving nearly 40,000 students climbing the mountain to and through college.
“This book isn’t just a tool for you to help get kids to pass a test. Maddie Witter gives teachers and leaders the tools to create lasting change in kids’ lives.”
―Wendy Kopp, Founder & CEO, Teach For America
“Insightful, detailed, original; Reading Without Limits is an outstanding guide for educators.”
―Deborah Kenny, Ph.D., Founder & CEO, Harlem Village Academies
About the Author
Maddie Witter is a founding teacher of KIPP Infinity Charter School, one of the top-performing middle schools in New York City. At KIPP Infinity, Maddie taught literacy, and was the school’s founding director of instruction where she supervised teacher development and curriculum for the reading, writing, content, and nonfiction studies programs.
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