Creating Literacy Instruction for All Children in Grades Pre-K to 4 (2nd Edition) (Books by Tom Gunning) - Softcover

Gunning, Thomas G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0132685817 ISBN 13: 9780132685818

Publisher: Pearson, 2012

Synopsis

In response to today’s need to tailor instruction for the lower grades (PreK-4), this comprehensive, practical guide gives aspiring and practicing professionals the methods and techniques they need to become highly effective teachers who are well equipped to help all students become proficient readers and writers.

 

Creating Literacy Instruction for All Children in Grades Pre-K to 4 features lesson plans for virtually every major literacy skill or strategy, abundant lists of recommended children’s reading, helpful student strategies, numerous reinforcement activities, and real-life illustrations of exemplary teaching, all designed to help teachers incorporate today’s most effective teaching methods and techniques into their literacy teaching.

 

About this title

About the Author:

Thomas G. Gunning, a former elementary school reading consultant and junior high English teacher, is Professor Emeritus, Southern Connecticut State University, where he was department chair and reading clinic director. Gunning is currently an Adjunct Professor, Reading/ Language Arts Department, Central Connecticut State University. Gunning has conducted research on group reading inventories, vocabulary assessment, reading disabilities, intervention programs, readability, response to intervention, decoding processes and strategies, and literacy skills needed to cope with high-stakes tests. Professor Gunning’s other books with Pearson include Creating Literacy Instruction for All Students, Eighth Edition; Assessing and Correcting Reading and Writing Difficulties, Fourth Edition; Creating Literacy  Instruction for All Students In Grades 4-8,  Third  Edition; Developing Higher-Level Literacy in All Students: Building Reading, Reasoning, and Responding; and Closing the Literacy Gap.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0132685817
• ISBN 13: 9780132685818
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 648