Teaching Reading in the 21st Century - Hardcover

Michael F. Graves

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0205263674 ISBN 13: 9780205263677

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, 1998

Synopsis

Informed by the latest research on topics ranging from phonemic awareness and phonics to teaching comprehension strategies, motivation, and assessment, this text provides the knowledge base, skills, and research-based strategies that you need to guide K-8 students successfully toward literacy for the 21st centuryâ using reading and writing for thinking, problem solving, and communicating. Principal themes include balancing phonemic skills with more holistic approaches; fostering the love of reading; and successfully teaching all students to become able and eager readers.

• Motivating Struggling Readers features provide real-life examples of research-based strategies in action that help make reading exciting for all learners.
• Motivating Children with Technology features provide access to technological resources related to chapter concepts and explain why a technology-based approach can sometimes be more motivating for students than a traditional approach.
• Differentiating Instruction for English Language Learners features provide guidance on how to successfully teach English language learners in a classroom of native speakers.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Teaching Reading in the 21st Century (with Assessments and Lesson Plans Booklet), 4/e

 

About the Fourth Edition:

 

With new chapters on fluency and motivation, the Fourth Edition of Teaching Reading in the 21st Century maintains the friendly voice of its widely recognized author team and its superior coverage of assessment for learning, and strengthens its commitment to a rich, balanced, and comprehensive program of reading instruction. Always practical, this edition is even richer in first-person accounts, instructional routines, classroom vignettes, and hands-on literacy activities.

 

One reviewer sums it up:

 

In a perfect number of chapters for a typical college semester, Graves et al. carefully cover such incredibly important concepts as the complex, recursive nature of reading and writing, the special considerations... for English language learners, and the intricacies of grouping learners. Countless professors will appreciate the ways in which the authors highlight and consistently interweave such vital notions as metacognition, scaffolding, the gradual release of responsibility model, and reciprocal teaching. Perhaps my favorite part of the text is that there is not just one, but two excellent chapters on comprehension.

                                    Christine Woodcock, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts

 

What is New of the Fourth Edition?

• A new full-color design and increased trim size make this already-friendly book even friendlier.
• A complete new chapter on Motivation and Engagement (Ch. 3)
• A complete new chapter on Fluency (Ch. 6)
• New and Revised In the Classroom/ Instructional Routines features in every chapter
• An Expanded Assessment Strategies and Lesson Plans Booklet—free with every new student text

About the Author

Michael F. Graves is a former high school English teacher, a Professor Emeritus of Literacy Education at the University of Minnesota, and a member of the Reading Hall of Fame. Michael has authored and coauthored over a dozen books on vocabulary learning and instruction and on comprehension instruction. His recent books include Teaching Vocabulary to English-Language Learners, Fostering Comprehension in English Classes, and Reading and Responding in the Middle Grades.

Edition details

• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0205263674
• ISBN 13: 9780205263677
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 588