Creating literacy instruction for all students

✍ Scribed by Gunning, Thomas G

• Publisher: Pearson
• Year: 2013;2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 557
• Edition: Eighth edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Aspiring and practicing professionals get the authoritative help they need to become highly effective teachers by applying the book's numerous research-based teaching strategies, lesson plans, and step-by-step guidance for teaching reading and writing. This practical, comprehensive text focuses on helping aspiring and practicing professionals become highly effective teachers. In turn, their students will develop as proficient readers and writers who are well on their way to becoming college and career ready. The author accomplishes this using landmark research that focuses on using highly effective practices, such as setting goals, monitoring progress, and implementing teaching strategies, and provides information on the average percentile gains achieved when these practices are instituted. Readers get step-by-step guidance for teaching reading and writing, including sample lessons for virtually every major literacy skill/strategy-30 lessons that incorporate the key elements of effective assessment and instruction.This new edition continues to emphasize how to adapt instruction for struggling readers and writers, English language learners, and special needs students and includes powerful new research-based teaching techniques that work especially well with struggling readers. This edition also stresses effective steps teachers can use to implement Response to Intervention and looks at developing higher-level literacy requirements for reading and writing, including those stemming from Common Core State Standards.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Table of Contents......Page 4
1. Assessing for Learning......Page 7
2. Fostering Emergent/Early Literacy......Page 77
3. Teaching Phonics, High-Frequency Words, Fluency, and Syllabic Analysis......Page 145
4. Building Vocabulary......Page 223
5. Comprehension: Theory and Strategies......Page 275
6. Comprehensions: Text Structures and Teaching Procedures......Page 331
7. Reading and Writing in the Content Areas and Study Skills......Page 371
8. Reading Literature......Page 411
9. Approaches to Teaching Reading......Page 449
10. Writing and Reading......Page 479
11. Creating and Managing a Literacy Program......Page 515
Appendix: Informal Assessment of World Building......Page 540
A......Page 542
B......Page 543
C......Page 544
D......Page 545
F......Page 546
H......Page 547
L......Page 548
M......Page 549
P......Page 550
Q......Page 551
R......Page 552
S......Page 553
T......Page 554
W......Page 555
Z......Page 556

✦ Subjects

Education