Help America Read: A Handbook for Volunteers

by Gay Su Pinnell, Irene C. Fountas, Irene Fountas

A recent explosion of volunteerism has occurred in classrooms, libraries, boardrooms, and church basements across the nationand nowhere has this trend been more keenly felt than in literacy programs. Here, unpaid workers want to help meet the challenge of teaching America to read. But who teaches them to work with children? With teachers' time already stretched to the limit and many volunteers lacking sufficient training, the need for a concise...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0435072501
• ISBN13: 9780435072506
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 106 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.9" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 12

Customer Reviews

This slim book will enable you to truly "Help America Read"

Full of practical suggestions for helping readers of all age and grade levels increase their reading and comprehension skills, this slim handbook goes a long way to equip any literacy tutor with tools they need to go into any classroom or library and assist our nation in raising literacy awareness and ability.