Helping Children Learn to Read: Creating a Classroom Literacy Environment (4th Edition) - Softcover

Searfoss, Lyndon W.; Readence, John E.; Mallette, Marla H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0205270190 ISBN 13: 9780205270194

Publisher: Pearson, 2000

Synopsis

This K-8 methods book shows how to implement a balanced classroom literacy program that is child-centered and print rich with reading at the core. Helping Children Learn to Read presents, in a clear, readable style, the current theories and techniques for creating a literacy program in elementary grades. There is strong coverage of the role of the basal reader and how to modify its use; the whole language perspective and an integrated language arts curriculum; a teaching-strategies orientation to decoding, vocabulary, comprehension, studying, and writing; plus extensive discussion of emergent literacy, multicultural literature, metacognition, and holistic assessment. For anyone interested in elementary reading methods.

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This K-8 methods book shows how to implement a balanced classroom literacy program that is child-centered and print rich with reading at the core.

Helping Children Learn to Read presents, in a clear, readable style, the current theories and techniques for creating a literacy program in elementary grades. There is strong coverage of the role of the basal reader and how to modify its use; the whole language perspective and an integrated language arts curriculum; a teaching-strategies orientation to decoding, vocabulary, comprehension, studying, and writing; plus extensive discussion of emergent literacy, multicultural literature, metacognition, and holistic assessment.

For anyone interested in elementary reading methods.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0205270190
• ISBN 13: 9780205270194
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 416