Catching Readers, Grade 3: Day-by-Day Small-Group Reading Interventions

Consider daily life for a child struggling with reading Imagine what it is like to go through school day after day feeling that you are bad at the one thing that schools seem to value most. Barbara Taylor brings decades of research and development to the question of how to help struggling readers become successful The Catching Readers series could not come at a more important time, as RTI leads schools to invest more than ever in small-group reading instruction."---Nell K. Doke, Michigan State University

"When we're true to children's developmental needs and know which books to put in their hands, good things fall into place. The key is to focus on the children and the practices we know help them to read at each grade level," says Barbara Taylor.

These foundational beliefs have been the focus of Barbara Taylor's career and inspired her to create the Early intervention in Reading (EIR) process. After more than two decades of classroom practice, research, and refinement, Barbara Taylor has translated her EIR process into the Catching Readers series (Grades K-5).

Barbara Taylor has been active in reading research and outreach to schools throughout her career as a professor at the University of Minnesota. In addition to developing the Early Intervention in Reading model, Taylor has published widely on reading comprehension, effective reading instruction, and successful schoolwide reading improvement in journals, including Reading Research Quarterly, Elementary School Journal, and The Reading Teacher. In 2010 she was awarded the Oscar Causey Award for Distin guished Contributions to Reading Research from the National Reading Conference, the latest in a long line of awards.