Reading As Communication: To Help Children Write and Read

The first part of the volume covers the developmental, environmental, and process views of literacy cultivation. The second part covers the development of fluency, inferential thinking, and comprehension, sight vocabulary, graphophonic awareness, conceptual vocabulary growth, and teacher and student strategies for comprehension. The third part addresses literature, writing, and the new basal programs, while the last part discusses guiding children toward self-assessment, enhancing comprehension and enjoyment, the multicultural, multiability classroom, and management of a classroom literacy program. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Powerful changes have streamlined this popular methods book making it as fresh as the first edition. While the importance of literature in the reading curriculum still provides the core of this book, the latest ideas in education have been incorporated to strengthen it. More than other books, it includes the best methods for preparing teachers to instill in elementary students the knowledge that reading is more than learning, it's an engaging experience of communicating.