This newly revised and updated Fourth Edition of THE READING TEACHER'S BOOK OF LISTS places at your fingertips over 190 of the most used and useful lists for developing instructional materials and planning lessons for elementary and secondary students. For quick access, the lists are organized into 15 sections, from "Phonics" "Useful Word" and "Vocabulary" through "Comprehension," Assessment" and "References," each brimming with examples, key words, teaching ideas and activities you can use as is or easily adapt to meet your students' needs. Moreover, all of the lists are printed in a big 8 ¼" x 11" spiral-bound format ready to be photocopied as many times as you need them for use with individual students, small groups, or an entire class! You'll find over 40 new lists in the Fourth Edition, making it even more helpful than previous editions.  For example, there are complete new lists on .  Vowel Sounds  Suggested Phonics Teaching Order  The Final "E" Rule  Reading Math  Books for Developing and Reluctant Readers  Nonreversible Word Pairs  Multiple Intelligences and Reading  Comprehension Strategies  Anagrams  Speech Pronunciation  Children's Humor:  What Kids Say  Teaching with Newspapers  Activities for Tutors  50 Reading Tips for Parents  Rubrics for Writing  Books without Words  Oxymorons  Ways to Define a Word  Emoticons  Internet Search Engines for Educators  Web Sites for Reading, Writing & Literature   As well as expanded and updated lists on .  Consonant Sounds  Prefixes and Suffixes  Children's Book Awards  Book-List Collections  All-Time Favorite Books  Acronyms and Initializations  Story Starters  Student/Group Project guide  100 Ways to Praise  Games and Methods for Teaching  Graphic Organizers  Analogies  Riddles and Tongue Twisters  Portmanteau Words  Sentence Tunes  Sound Awareness Books plus the "classics" you've come to rely on over the years .  Phonics Example Words  Homophones  The First 1,000 Instant Words  Homographs and Heteronyms  Synonyms and antonyms  Spelling Demons  Compound Words  Metaphors and Similes  The Readability Graph  Greek and Latin Roots  Literary Terms  Proofreading Checklists  Interest Inventories  Test-Taking Strategies  Proverbs and Common Word Idioms  Book Report Alternatives In addition, you'll find an all-new section, "The Internet," designed for novice and expert alike (Virtual Reference Library) . a new Spelling" section with rules, methods, and commonly misspelled words (Capitalization Guidelines) .

a section just on "Instruction" ((Good Ideas for Reading Teachers) . and an invaluable index and cross-references throughout to make locating any list you want easy. In short, THE READING TEACHER'S BOOK OF LISTS , Fourth Edition gives you an unparalleled source of timely, practical information for all aspects of reading instruction that might otherwise take many years and much effort to acquire!.