Focusing on pre-kindergarten through grade 4, this book provides a solid foundation in literacy instruction including phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Offering a wealth of assessment tools and authentic classroom examples, it shows beginning educators how to teach reading and writing effectively in the early grades and how to create a classroom climate where literacy flourishes. Gail Tompkins bases her book on four contemporary literacy theories–constructivist, interactive, socio-linguistic and reader response–and maintains her solid focus on assessment and balanced literacy instruction. This edition features more on preventing reading difficulties, nurturing English Language Learners, fostering the earliest literacy learners, and adapting strategies to individual student development.
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Tompkins’ text reflects a solid approach to the intricacies of early reading instruction. She covers all aspects that I would find essential, critical, and relevant. The various spotlights, vignettes, figures and summaries support the text and help amplify it. The Compendium is an invaluable resource and a constant reference point!
Armin R. Schulz, California State University, Stanislaus
This unique text prepares you to teach young readers and writers by taking you into successful classrooms, helping you prepare for your own classroom, and giving you the practical tools to take with you. Paying particular attention to the needs of these early learners, the text provides recommendations for preventing early learning difficulties and suggestions for helping pre-kindergarteners develop literacy abilities. You’ll also find tools to help you adjust lessons for English learners, as well as minilessons and step-by-step guidance for strategy and skill instruction. The second edition of Literacy for the 21st Century: Teaching Reading and Writing in Pre-Kindergarten Through Grade 4 presents a thoughtful, balanced approach to teaching literacy specifically in the early grades.
Takes you into the classroom
Helps you prepare your own classroom
Gives you the tools to take into your classroom
The author does a great job of building background knowledge especially for pre-service and beginning teachers. The Compendium of Instructional Procedures is wonderful for quick stop-n-shop for each strategy. It helps to simplify each strategy and newly learned concept so that pre-service teachers can easily implement them in their clinical/field experiences. Good job, too, of integrating information about addressing the needs of English language learners throughout the text. Kantaylieniere Hill-Clark, University of Memphis
“What a difference in Tompkins's [Literacy for the 21st Century: Teaching Reading and Writing in Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 4] 2/e! It's more than 33% revised, it's a true new edition. [I] very much enjoyed realizing how much better, tighter, and in-depth she got this time around. I've always appreciated her thoroughness and her teacher-friendliness--and this edition maintains her style well.”
Marie Ann Donovan, Ed.D.
Associate Professor of Education
DePaul University
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