Teaching Children to Read: Putting the Pieces Together (3rd Edition) - Hardcover

D. Ray Reutzel~Robert B. Cooter; Robert B. Cooter Jr.

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9780130998354: Teaching Children to Read: Putting the Pieces Together (3rd Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0130998354 ISBN 13: 9780130998354

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1999

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This Elementary Reading Methods book is the only one on the market that offers a transitional perceptive to teach reading in a balanced way . It provides theoretical guidelines and methodology to combine both the use of basals and skills based instruction with a more balanced approach to teaching reading. For educators and school administrators.

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An exciting new edition of the only text on the market to concentrate, specifically, on transition approaches to teaching reading! While offering extensive coverage of all reading teaching methods, this text's main objective is showing future teachers how "balanced literacy" programs can be developed to draw upon the most important and successful ideas from both whole language and traditional "direct instruction" philosophies. Readers learn how to make gradual transitions from traditional to language teaching, in ways that have been proven through research. Coverage begins with theoretical and instructional models, and proceeds to discussion of such fundamental skills as identifying words in print and acquiring vocabulary. Subsequent chapters detail techniques for making the transition from basal readers to books, and for designing environments that encourage learning and promote literacy. Finally, it discusses such issues as holistic assessment of reading and writing, and applying transition ideas in content areas.

In working toward completing the fourth edition of Teaching Children to Read: Putting the Pieces Together, we drew upon a number of important elements. First, we considered the outcome of a wonderful professional experience we had several years ago when we decided to leave our university positions and return to teaching children. We tried out the various ideas and strategies about reading and writing that we had been collecting and verified how to practically apply them in the classroom.

We built upon this foundation with the findings of research on reading instruction. A strong research base for decision making is important for sound teaching. For this new edition, we completely updated our text to include the most recent information drawn from scientifically based research on balanced reading and writing instruction.

Finally, we decided to sculpt these ideas in such a way as to present the principles and theories you need to understand the teaching of reading, offer to you the best methods and assessments you'll need to create a classroom reading program, and provide a clear picture of the classroom itself. This revision is designed to illustrate precisely, from environment to procedures, what reading instruction in the elementary classroom should look like.

ORGANIZATION

The first thing you will notice about this text is that we have focused the chapters into three distinct parts. By pulling the text apart into these discrete sections, we will give you a better sense of how the elements of literacy fit together to create the whole literacy picture. We intend the practical nature of this text to give you the pieces of the literacy puzzle you need to become a creative problem solver and effective reading teacher.

Part I: Principles and Foundations: Understanding Literacy Development. The first chapter describes the characteristics of effective reading teachers and the principles that support literacy development. The second chapter presents the role language development plays in reading preparedness. A thoroughly updated Chapter 3 relates how reading theories form the basis of models for reading instruction.

Part II: Methods and Assessment: Strategies That Support Literacy Development. Chapters 4 through 9 consider strategy instruction and assessment, which is linked to the seven core elements of reading instruction, presented in Part I. In Part II you'll find an entirely new chapter, which focuses on understanding and developing reading fluency (Chapter 7), as well as an updated chapter on examining the components of basal reading programs (Chapter 8).

Part III: Classroom Practice: Organizing and Planning for Literacy Instruction. The final four chapters comprise a meticulous walk through the processes of planning and implementing effective reading instruction in primary and intermediate classrooms, integrating the disparate theory, research, instruction, and assessment chapters into seamless classroom descriptions. From one chapter to another, the reading and writing process is set up as a continuum beginning with emergent readers and writers, continuing on to developing readers and writers who benefit from reading and writing workshops, and ending with the honing of skills with independent readers and writers by supporting their needs for using content area and reference materials. These chapters will help you gain a sense of how teaching practices are sequenced to be developmentally appropriate.

New to This Edition

Comprehensive reading instruction. This strong new focus calls for a balance in skills and strategies, reading and writing, and research-based instruction and assessment to implement the best literacy instruction.
Characteristics of Teachers. Chapter 1 delineates the seven characteristics of highly effective reading teachers. This is what you must know and be able to do to become a master reading teacher.
Organizing Classrooms. Part III of the text builds upon the information presented in Parts I and II by delineating ways to organize classrooms to promote literacy development and help ensure children's success in reading. This finely tuned information includes strategies on how to prepare and set up learning centers and how to plan for literacy instruction even before school begins and throughout the school year.
Connecting to Standards. These features connect chapter concepts with the IRA/NCTE standards in classroom teaching. Link directly to these and all major standards from our Companion Website at www.prenhall.com/reutzel to continue making these connections, and to keep abreast of these continually updated principles.
Online Lessons and Strategies. Margin notes within chapters will connect chapter concepts with online strategies and lesson plans specifically for struggling readers and writers. You'll find these valuable tools on our Companion Website at www.prenhall.com/reutzel.
Companion Website. In addition to the Online Lessons and Strategies and important Standards materials, our Companion Website contains self-assessments to help you gauge your understanding of each chapter's concepts, a threaded message board for nationwide discussions, chapter objectives, and important literacy related Internet links.