50 Literacy Strategies : Step by Step - Softcover

Tompkins, Gail E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0138603707 ISBN 13: 9780138603700

Publisher: Merrill Pub Co, 1997

Synopsis

Elementary Reading or Language Arts. One of today's leading literacy and language arts authors provides future and current teachers with practical, hands-on approaches for teaching literacy in this text that contains 50 research-based and field tested strategies. It includes strategies for reading, writing, listening, speaking, and visualizing. Each strategy includes general information (defining terms, purpose of the strategy, application, and research citations); a list of steps for implementing the strategy; and a concluding paragraph that gives ideas for application and additional examples.

About this title

From the Back Cover

This conveniently organized resource book reflects the latest, most exciting ideas in literature focus units, reading/writing workshop, and thematic instruction. It provides step-by-step instructions for using fifty research based, classroom tested literacy strategies—encompassing reading, writing, listening, speaking, and visualizing—and for each, supportive material helps classroom teachers decide the when, why, and how of optimal use. A Categorical Index of strategies appears on the inside front cover, serving as a handy reference for classroom use, making strategy selection easier and more reliable. New instructional strategies such as interactive writing, story retelling, and word sorts have been included. A supplemental book to assist elementary school teachers in literacy and language arts.

About the Author

Gail E. Tompkins is Professor Emerita at California State Unversity, Fresno, and she continues to direct the San Joaquin Valley Writing Project.  She regularly works with teachers in their kindergarten through eighth-grade classrooms and leads staff development programs on reading, language arts, and writing.  In 1998 Dr. Tompkins was inducted into the California Reading Association's Reading Hall of Fame in recognition of her publication and other accomplishments in the field of reading, and recently she was awarded the prestigious Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching at California's State University, Fresno.

Edition details

• Publisher: Merrill Pub Co
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0138603707
• ISBN 13: 9780138603700
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Number of pages: 124