ISBN: 9780132277211

Edition: Second edition.

Description: xix, 396 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)

Other Title: Literacy for the twenty-first century

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents:

• 1. Becoming an effective teacher of reading
• 2. Examining children's literacy development
• 3. Assessing young children's literacy development
• 4. Cracking the aphabetic code
• 5. Learning to spell
• 6. Developing fluent readers and writers
• 7. Expanding children's knowledge of words
• 8. Facilitating children's comprehension: reader factors
• 9. Facilitating children's comprehension: text factors
• 10. Scaffolding children's reading development
• 11. Scaffolding children's writing development
• 12. Integrating reading and writing into thematic units
• Compendium of instructional procedures.

LCCN: 2002033808

Control Number: 2815641

Subjects:

• Language arts (Elementary)
• Language arts (Preschool)