Building Words : A Resource Manual for Teaching Word Analysis and Spelling Strategies

Gunning, Thomas G.

ISBN 10: 0205309224 / ISBN 13: 9780205309221

Published by Pearson Education, Limited, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Building Words : A Resource Manual for Teaching Word Analysis and Spelling Strategies
• Publisher: Pearson Education, Limited
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0205309224
• ISBN 13: 9780205309221
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

A step-by-step guide to literacy education in grades 1-4, Building Words goes beyond theory to include specific guidelines and lesson plans for the classroom. This flexible, easy-to-use book includes almost everything you might need to structure an effective literacy program based on word analysis skills and strategies. The book guides the reader through a series of lessons, from initial assessment through the principles of emergent literacy and phonics, to the more advanced skills of contextual analysis and spelling. In addition, each section is complemented by dozens of songs, riddles, and puzzles that can be used in activities to practice and reinforce word analysis skills in the classroom. For teachers of grades 1-4 or early childhood educators.

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.