Creating Literacy Instruction for All Children - Hardcover

Gunning, Thomas G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 020528793X ISBN 13: 9780205287932

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, 1999

Synopsis

Creating Literacy Instruction for All Children is a comprehensive, practical book that provides step-by-step guidance for teaching all major aspects of reading and writing. Gunning's book allows the reader to discover approaches and techniques that fit individual personal styles and situations. It aims to present as fairly, completely, and clearly as possible the major methods and strategies shown successful in research and practice. The book features sample lessons for virtually every major literacy skill/strategy and offers numerous reinforcement suggestions and generous listings of materials. With two updated chapters on word analysis skills/strategies, the book continues to give teachers the information and techniques they need to implement a systematic but functional program of word analysis that is integrated with students' reading and writing. The book also presents the theory behind the methods, so readers will choose, adapt, and/or construct their own approaches as they create literacy instruction. This edition endorses the viewpoint that a well-prepared classroom teacher is capable of effectively instructing most struggling readers and writers. For in-service and pre-service teachers of elementary reading methods and language arts.

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About the Author

Thomas G. Gunning has taught courses in methods of teaching reading and writing for more than 20 years and was director of the Reading Clinic at Southern Connecticut State University. Before that, as a secondary English teacher, a reading specialist, and an elementary school reading consultant, he worked extensively with achieving and struggling readers and writers. Dr. Gunning, who recently served as a Reading First consultant, is currently working with elementary and middle school students to help them develop higher level literacy skills, as well as serving as an adjunct professor in the Reading/Language Arts Department at Central Connecticut State University. Over the years, Dr. Gunning’s research has explored reading interests, informal reading inventories, decoding strategies, readability, higher-level literacy skills, and response to intervention. As a result of this research, he has created a number of informal assessments and programs for developing decoding and comprehension skills.

About this edition

• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 020528793X
• ISBN 13: 9780205287932
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 592