The Reading Puzzle

About the Series...

The Reading Puzzle series contains 10 books for Kindergarten through Grade 8 centered on the skills identified by the National Reading Panel as critical to reading success. It provides instructional tools teachers can use immediately as part of the reading curriculum. Each of the books in the series helps unlock one piece of the reading puzzle and contains standards-based, ready-to-use activities that can be used to supplement any reading program.

As puzzle pieces fit together to complete a picture, reading skills are dependent upon one another to make reading meaningful for students. The Reading Puzzle series helps you organize instruction to better develop students’ core reading skills—including phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension—to make them successful readers.

These activity books make it easy to put McEwan's highly-successful strategies, outlined in her best-seller Teach Them ALL to Read, into practice. The strategies and activities will support struggling readers and enhance existing skill to encourage improvement in all students' reading skills.

   Download a sample lesson plan and student activity from The Reading Puzzle: Word Analysis, Grades 4-8

About the Author
Elaine K. McEwan is a partner and educational consultant with The McEwan-Adkins Group, offering workshops in instructional leadership, team building, and raising reading achievement. A former teacher, librarian, principal, and assistant superintendent for instruction in a suburban Chicago school district, McEwan is the author of more than thirty-five books for parents and educators. Her Corwin Press titles include Raising Reading Achievement in Middle and High Schools: Five Simple-to-Follow Strategies for Principals, Second Edition (2006), Seven Strategies of Highly Effective Readers: Using Cognitive Research to Boost K-8 Achievement (2004), Ten Traits of Highly Effective Principals: From Good to Great Performance (2003), Making Sense of Research: What’s Good, What’s Not, and How to Tell the Difference (2003), Seven Steps to Effective Instructional Leadership, Second Edition (2003), Teach Them ALL to Read: Catching the Kids Who Fall through the Cracks (2002), and Ten Traits of Highly Effective Teachers: How to Hire, Mentor, and Coach Successful Teachers (2001). She has an advanced degree in  educational administration from Northern Illinois University.