Teaching Reading In Today's Elementary Schools

This market-leading text sets the standard for reading instruction and provides preservice teachers with extensive coverage of strategies, examples, and study devices. The book balances new approaches to reading?such as language arts integration and emergent literacy/literacy as a continuum?with the more traditional foundations of strong skills and phonics instruction. Coverage of current topics includes assessment standards, teaching diverse learners, technology and the teaching of literacy, and the role of parent-teacher communication in student success.

• Expanded and clarified coverage of phonics and word recognition strategies includes a user-friendly appendix for even greater accessibility.
• The "Teaching Strategies Review for PRAXIS" chart includes textual references to assist teacher candidates as they prepare for reading exams.
• The Teaching Reading Student CD-ROM contains videos of classroom situations accompanied by questions to stimulate student reflection and critical thinking.

Betty Roe is Professor Emerita at Tennessee Technological University. She formerly was the Director of the Ph.D. in Exceptional Learning Program and Professor of Curriculum and Instruction. She earned her Ed.D. at the University of Tennessee in Curriculum and Instruction with Reading emphasis. She is the senior author of SECONDARY SCHOOL LITERACY INSTRUCTION, 10th Edition; INFORMAL READING INVENTORY, 8th Edition; and TEACHING READING IN TODAY'S ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, 11th Edition; all published by Cengage Learning.

Sandra Hope Huddleston Smith is an assistant professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and Director of Teacher Education and Rural Services at Tennessee Technological University. She received her M.A. in Special Education from Tennessee Tech in 1981, and a Specialist in Education degree in Reading/Curriculum from Tennessee Tech in 1989.