Description
For courses in Elementary Reading Methods (K–8)—Core Texts, Reading & Literacy
Alternative Certification—Literacy, Curriculum & Instruction
A personal guide and resource for in-service teachers
With an emphasis on the teacher’s role in literacy development, this book focuses on seven pillars of effective reading instruction and gives educators the background knowledge they need in order to understand why they do what they do in teaching reading.
In keeping with what research tells us, that it is the teacher who makes the difference in effective reading instruction, this guide urges educators to become capable literacy teachers by thinking deeply about their teaching decisions in order to understand and meet the literacy needs of every student. The emphasis is on the essential nature of the teacher’s role in literacy instruction, while asserting the primacy of the role of teacher quality and effectiveness as the key to successful literacy instruction.
The authors present five pillars of effective reading instruction—Teacher Knowledge, Classroom Assessment, Evidence-Based Teaching Practices, Response to Intervention (RTI), and Family and Community Connections—and add two new pillars to this edition: Motivation and Engagement and Technology and New Literacies. The seven pillars provide a logical and consistent structure for closely examining the essential elements that well-prepared literacy teachers know, understand, and are able to implement in classrooms. Teachers are encouraged to use the seven pillars to ground their thinking about future teaching in order to successfully develop and perform their vital roles in helping all children become successful readers and writers.
Table of Contents
Chapter One Effective Reading Instruction: The Teacher Makes the Difference
Chapter Two Developing Children’s Oral Language
Chapter Three Phonics and Word Recognition: Learning to Read Words
Chapter Four Developing Children’s Reading Fluency
Chapter Five Increasing Reading Vocabulary
Chapter Six Teaching Reading Comprehension
Chapter Seven Assessment
Chapter Eight Evidence-Based Programs, Interventions, and Standards for Literacy Instruction
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Essentials of Teaching Children to Read, The: The Teacher Makes the Difference, CourseSmart eTextbook, 3rd Edition
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$26.99 | ISBN-13: 978-0-13-296354-1
