<ul><i>[Brassell] explains step by step...how to meet the standards without turning your classroom into a boot camp. He's been a classroom teacher without even a dollar's budget, yet found ways to scavenge thousands of books - for free!</i> - Jim Trelease </ul> <p>For less proficient readers, going to school can often feel like humiliating drudgery. But you can help every student see reading as an opportunity, not an obligation. In <i>Readers for Life</i> Danny Brassell shows you the way with smart advice on how to guide children toward becoming lifelong lovers of reading without completely overhauling your curriculum or discarding your daily routines.</p> <p><i>Readers for Life</i> provides proven, easy - to - use strategies to help you improve your literacy curricula, increase your students' joy of reading, and implement a community - volunteer program in your classroom. Best of all, Brassell demonstrates how you can do it in just one hour a week. His reading - fitness program describes:</p> <ul> <li>what materials you need to get started, including research - based strategies for increasing book access and building a large, diverse collection of children's literature - without spending your own money</li> <li>how to set up your classroom library to help students enjoy exploring, choosing, and reading books</li> <li>how to set up a comprehensive volunteer reading - tutoring program in your classroom </li> <li>what specific reading activities help kids get - and keep - the reading bug</li> <li>what kinds of resources, forms, and checklists you'll need to get started and continue moving toward your curricular goals</li> <li>how the whole enterprise will help more students meet standards</li> </ul> <p>Help kids learn to love reading, not avoid it. Use the dozens of effective strategies in this quick, practical guide and turn your classroom into a reading - fitness powerhouse. Trust Danny Brassell and inspire every student to become a <i>Reader for Life</i>. </p>