Best Practices in Early Literacy Instruction

Best Practices in Early Literacy Instruction
Author: Diane M. Barone
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Total Pages: 542
Release: 2013-09-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1462511775

Bringing together prominent scholars, this book shows how 21st-century research and theory can inform everyday instructional practices in early childhood classrooms (PreK-3). Coverage includes foundational topics such as alphabet learning, phonological awareness, oral language development, and learning to write, as well as cutting-edge topics such as digital literacy, informational texts, and response to intervention. Every chapter features guiding questions; an overview of ideas and findings on the topic at hand; specific suggestions for improving instruction, assessment, and/or the classroom environment; and an engrossing example of the practices in action.

Comprehensive Literacy for All

Comprehensive Literacy for All
Author: Karen A. Erickson
Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-12-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781598576573

An essential resource for educators, speech-language pathologists, and parents--and an ideal text for courses that cover literacy and significant disabilities--this book will help you ensure that all students have the reading and writing skills they need to unlock new opportunities and reach their potential.

Engaging Children with Print

Engaging Children with Print
Author: Laura M. Justice
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2013-12-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1462514839

Preschool teachers and early childhood professionals know that storybook reading is important, but they may not know how to maximize its benefits for later reading achievement. This indispensable guide presents research-based techniques for using reading aloud to intentionally and systematically build children's knowledge of print. Simple yet powerful strategies are provided for teaching preschoolers about book and print organization, print meaning, letters, and words, all while sharing engaging, commercially available books. Appendices include a detailed book list and 60 reproducibles that feature activities and prompts keyed to each text.

Developing Early Literacy

Developing Early Literacy
Author: Susan Hill
Publisher:
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2006
Genre: Language arts (Early childhood)
ISBN: 9781741482539

Focuses on the development of reading, writing, speaking and listening for children from birth to eight years.

From Children's Interests to Children's Thinking

From Children's Interests to Children's Thinking
Author: Jane Tingle Broderick
Publisher:
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2020-06-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781938113635

Learn how to connect your curriculum planning to children's interests and thinking. With this book, educators will discover a systematic way for using documentation to design curriculum that emerges from children's inquiries, what they wonder, and what they want to understand. Get strategies for designing a classroom environment at the start of the year to facilitate emergent inquiry curriculum. Each chapter guides teachers to document and reflect on their thinking through each of the five phases of a cycle of inquiry process, including observing, interpreting the meaning of the play they see, and developing questions to engage children.

The Fluent Reader

The Fluent Reader
Author: Timothy V. Rasinski
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2003
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780439332088

Introduces oral reading teaching methods for developing word recognition and comprehension in students.

Children with Disabilities: Reading and Writing the Four-Blocks® Way, Grades 1 - 3

Children with Disabilities: Reading and Writing the Four-Blocks® Way, Grades 1 - 3
Author: David Koppenhaver
Publisher: Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2008-08-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1604185643

Meet the learning needs and preferences of all students using Children with Disabilities: Reading and Writing the Four-Blocks(R) Way for students in grades 1–3. This 144-page book provides a glimpse into an inclusion special-education classroom that uses the Four-Blocks(R) Literacy Model. This wonderful collection of ideas, strategies, and resources includes information on Self-Selected Reading, Guided Reading, Writing, and Working with Words. It also includes strategies for reading and writing success in special-education classrooms, variations for students with disabilities, teacher's checklists, IEP goal suggestions, examples of assistive technology, and answers to commonly asked questions. The book supports the Four-Blocks(R) Literacy Model and provides a list of children's literature that can be used in lessons.

Early Childhood Literacy

Early Childhood Literacy
Author: Timothy Shanahan
Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781598571158

What are today's best practices in early literacy instruction--and what should schools and programs focus on in the future? More than 20 of the biggest names in early literacy research give you balanced, insightful answers, using the landmark NELP

A Land We Can Share

A Land We Can Share
Author: Paula Kluth
Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2008
Genre: Education
ISBN:

The how and why of teaching literacy skills to children with autism