The Gentry Collection

Brain Words

How the Science of Reading Informs Teaching

J. Richard Gentry and Gene Ouellette

In their recent book, Brain Words: How the Science of Reading Informs Teaching, Richard Gentry and Gene Ouellete explain the latest research and theory on lexical representation and its relation to rapid and accurate word reading, a necessary skill to mastering literacy.

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Kid Writing in the 21st Century

(Pre-K, K & Grade 1)

Richard Gentry, Ph.D. G. Feldgus, Ed.D., Isabell Cardonick, M.Ed., J.

Kid Writing in the 21st Century will fill the gap between your students being able to write with “squiggles and diamonds” and with full, proficient alphabetic writing.  It’s not enough to say, “write as best you can”—you need to show them how, and this book has the strategies:

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SPELLING CONNECTIONS

A WORD STUDY APPROACH (Grades 1-6)

Richard Gentry, Ph.D

Backed by years of extensive ongoing research, Spelling Connections takes a broader view of spelling as it relates to overall literacy improvement and success. This word study approach provides a structured, systematic look at spelling patterns that teaches spelling

SPEL…IS A FOUR-LETTER WORD is devoted to helping teachers and parents to teach spelling as part of the reading-writing process.

PUBLISHED IN 1987, this was Dr. Gentry’s first book that focused on demolishing widely held myths about poor spellers and about the process of spelling.

Raising Confident Readers: How to Teach Your Child to Read and Write — from Baby to Age 7 Paperback – July 13, 2010

Raise a Child Who Loves to Read

How do kids really learn to read? And how can you encourage interest in reading and writing from the start? In Raising Confident Readers, based on the five phases of literacy development, Dr. J. Richard Gentry provides fun and easy ways to teach your child to read and write successfully.

Fostering Writing in Today’s Classroom 

by Richard Gentry (Author), Vickie Wallace-Nesler (Author), Jan McNeel (Author)

The Science of Spelling

The Explicit Specifics That Make Great Readers and Writers (and Spellers!)

J. Richard Gentry

Once again, Richard Gentry revolutionizes how you think about spelling instruction. The Science of Spelling breaks down preconceptions and misconceptions about how kids learn to spell, making startling new connections between orthography and literacy. Through up-to-the-moment research, Gentry that children use early spelling cognition to break the reading code.

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Breaking the Code

The New Science of Beginning Reading and Writing

By J Richard Gentry

Writing with the same clarity and teacher-friendly approach as in his best-selling The Science of Spelling, Richard Gentry will show you how scientific thinking and student-centered teaching can work together to create powerful literacy instructional practices. Let Breaking the Code open a window for you into the minds of young readers, so that you can open a window for them into a world of literate possibilities.

Teaching Kids to Spell

By J Richard Gentry & Jean W Gillet

Teaching Kids to Spell fills the need for a book to help teachers working in an integrated language arts program provide systematic, personalized spelling instruction. The authors provide a much-needed bridge between traditional spelling instruction and whole language approaches, showing teachers (and parents, too) how spelling ability begins to emerge in young children’s invented spellings, how it grows as children pass through predictable stages of spelling strategies, and how eventually every student can reach a standard of correct “expert” spelling.

My Kid Can’t Spell 

J. Richard Gentry

Understanding and Assisting Your Child’s Literacy Development

My Kid Can’t Spell is a readable and accessible handbook for parents who want to play a more active role in their children’s reading, writing, and spelling development. Spelling, after all, impacts virtually every aspect of reading and writing, and it is the key to unlocking literacy.

Spelling expert J. Richard Gentry offers timely and practical solutions to many of the problems parents of K-8 children face. The book is packed with tools, guidelines, and strategies that parents can immediately use.

Strategies for Implementing Writer’s Workshop

Richard Gentry Jan McNeel Vickie Wallace-Nesler

This comprehensive resource provides teachers with techniques to engage students as they strengthen their writing skills with Writer’s Workshop. Whether working with small- and independent-writing groups or the entire classroom, this resource provides lesson plans geared to students of various grades from K-2, 3-5 and 6-8.

 Fostering Writing in Today’s Classroom

Richard Gentry Jan McNeel Vickie Wallace-Nesler

Create enthusiastic writers and facilitate a positive learning environment with Fostering Writing in Today’s Classroom. This easy-to-implement resource offers dynamic topics such as setting up Writer’s Workshop in your classroom; teaching the 5-step writing process; implementing the traits of effective writing; and connecting writing to close reading, reporting, and thinking. Great for professional development and staying current on research-based best practices, new teachers, pre-service educators, and even teaching veterans won’t want to let go of this book!