Teaching New Literacies in Grades K-3: Resources for 21st-Century Classrooms (Solving Problems in the Teaching of Literacy) - Hardcover

9781606234983: Teaching New Literacies in Grades K-3: Resources for 21st-Century Classrooms (Solving Problems in the Teaching of Literacy)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1606234986 ISBN 13: 9781606234983

Publisher: The Guilford Press, 2009

Even the youngest readers and writers in today’s classrooms can benefit enormously from engagement with a wide range of traditional and nontraditional texts. This teacher-friendly handbook is packed with creative strategies for introducing K–3 students to fiction, poetry, and plays; informational texts; graphic novels; digital storytelling; Web-based and multimodal texts; hip-hop; advertisements; math problems; and many other types of texts. Prominent authorities explain the research base underlying the book’s 23 complete lessons and provide practical activities and assessments for promoting decoding, fluency, comprehension, and other key literacy skills. Snapshots of diverse classrooms bring the material to life; helpful reproducibles are included.

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About the Author:

Barbara Moss, PhD, is Professor of Literacy Education in the School of Teacher Education at San Diego State University. She has taught English and language arts in elementary, middle, and high school settings and has worked as a reading coach. Dr. Moss’s research focuses on the teaching of informational texts at the elementary and secondary levels. She regularly presents at local, state, national, and international conferences and has published numerous journal articles, columns, book chapters, and books. Dr. Moss has served as the Young Adult Literature column editor for Voices in the Middle, a publication of the National Council of Teachers of English.

Diane Lapp, EdD, is Distinguished Professor of Education in the Department of Teacher Education at San Diego State University. She has taught elementary, middle, and high school and serves as Director of Learning at Health Sciences High and Middle College. Her research and instruction focus on issues related to struggling readers and writers who live in economically deprived urban settings, and their families and teachers. Widely published, Dr. Lapp has received the Outstanding Teacher Educator of the Year Award from the International Literacy Association, among other honors, and is a member of both the International Reading Hall of Fame and the California Reading Hall of Fame.

Review:

"Teaching New Literacies in Grades K-3 is the right book at the right time. It expands the definition of 'new literacies' to include the skills and strategies needed for reading, understanding, and evaluating not only electronic and digital texts, but also other types of texts that have grown in importance in the lives of primary-grade children. This is one of those books that offers too much information for a single reading--teachers are likely to return to it time and again to find answers to questions new and old."--Jeanne R. Paratore, EdD, Department of Literacy and Language, Counseling and Development, Boston University "This book is jam-packed with lessons to incorporate new literacies, especially critical literacies, into any primary-grade classroom! These lessons provide readers with an understanding of the research as well as examples from real classrooms across the country. From hip hop to folk literature, from digital storytelling to high-stakes testing as a genre, this user-friendly book has it all. Current classroom teachers will come away with new ideas for their classrooms and preservice teachers will learn how to incorporate new literacies into their instruction. This book would be a great addition to advanced literacy methods courses at the undergraduate and graduate level."--Jennifer Garrette Lisy, MEd, former kindergarten and first-grade teacher, Chicago, Illinois "I am eager to introduce this book to the teachers I work with. The consistent format makes it easy to read and access the lessons in each chapter. I also appreciate the inclusion of the research base for using the different text types. The book's ideas for differentiated instruction offer crucial assistance for teachers striving to meet the needs of all their K-3 learners. The cutting-edge resources in these pages are exciting and engaging."--Michelle Lewis, MEd, Literacy Leader, Reading First, North Parkway Elementary Magnet School, Jackson, Tennessee "This book will help primary-grade teachers use a wide range of text types to provide students with engaging choices and critical learning opportunities. The chapters provide concrete, standards-based lesson plans. I was struck by the many genres that often go untaught in K-3, including most of the informational texts. It is absolutely wonderful to get lesson ideas for teaching such a wide variety of text types."--Dawnene D. Hassett, PhD, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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