Sesame Street Treasury

Sesame Street Treasury
Author: Publications International, Ltd
Publisher: Publications International
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-08
Genre: Children's stories, American
ISBN: 9781412717366

Sesame Street has been helping children laugh and learn since 1969, and Sesame Street Treasury showcases 23 favorite stories, songs, poems, and more from the classic television series. Beloved Sesame Street characters are illustrated on every page, including Elmo, Grover, Bert and Ernie, Zoe, Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, Cookie Monster, The Count, and more. Preschoolers and their parents will love reading this treasury together.

Understanding Reading

Understanding Reading
Author: Frank Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 569
Release: 2004-05-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135619727

Understanding Reading revolutionized reading research and theory when the first edition appeared in 1971 and continues to be a leader in the field. In the sixth edition of this classic text, Smith's purpose remains the same: to shed light on fundamental aspects of the complex human act of reading--linguistic, physiological, psychological, and social--and on what is involved in learning to read. The text critically examines current theories, instructional practices, and controversies, covering a wide range of disciplines but always remaining accessible to students and classroom teachers. Careful attention is given to the ideological clash that continues between whole language and direct instruction and currently permeates every aspect of theory and research into reading and reading instruction. To aid readers in making up their own minds, each chapter concludes with a brief statement of "Issues." Understanding Reading: A Psycholinguistic Analysis of Reading and Learning to Read, Sixth Edition is designed to serve as a handbook for language arts teachers, a college text for basic courses on the psychology of reading, a guide to relevant research on reading, and an introduction to reading as an aspect of thinking and learning. It is matchless in integrating a wide range of topics relative to reading while, at the same time, being highly readable and user-friendly for instructors, students, and practitioners.

Reading Recovery and Every Child a Reader

Reading Recovery and Every Child a Reader
Author: Sue Burroughs-Lange
Publisher: UCL Institute of Education Press (University College London Institute of Education Press)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Children
ISBN: 9780854739967

This book describes the origins and implementation of an approach to early literacy designed to ensure that every child leaves primary school able to read. This approach, called Every Child a Reader, was developed from the established early literacy intervention, Reading Recovery. The book describes the main features of Reading Recovery - how it operates for each child, how the teachers are trained to teach them, and the infrastructure necessary for Reading Recovery to make an effective impact on the poorest literacy learners in primary school. The story of Every Child a Reader is a model of how effective interventions need to be supported to ensure that their effectiveness is not jeopardised as they expand in scale and scope. It captures a particular period in educational and political history, surveying the policy and practice that shaped the implementation of a successful national early literacy intervention that has had a significant impact on school standards. This book is essential reading for all those interested or involved in early literacy and the prevention of literacy failure through effective intervention; to those who have heard about Reading Recovery but are not familiar with its operation in the UK, and to those involved in managing large-scale interventions in schools.