Literacy in Grades 4-8: Best Practices for a Comprehensive Program - Softcover

Cecil, Nancy L.; Gipe, Joan P.; Marcy, Merrill E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1934432830 ISBN 13: 9781934432839

Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

Comprehensive yet succinct and readable, Literacy in Grades 4-8, Third Edition offers a wealth of practical ideas to help preservice and practicing teachers create a balanced and comprehensive literacy program while exploring the core topics and issues of literacy in grades 4 through 8. It addresses teaching to standards; differentiating instruction for readers and writers; motivating students; using assessment to inform instruction; integrating technology into the classroom; working with English learners and struggling readers; and connecting with caregivers. Selected classroom strategies, procedures, and activities represent the most effective practices according to research and the many outstanding classroom teachers who were observed and interviewed for the book.

The Third Edition includes added material connecting the Common Core State Standards to the instruction and assessment of literacy skills; a combined word study and vocabulary chapter to help readers integrate these important topics in their teaching; more on technology, including comprehension of multimodal texts, enhancing writing instruction with technology tools, and teaching activities with an added technology component; added discussion of teacher techniques during text discussions, strategic moves that help students become more strategic readers.
Key features: In the Classroom vignettes; more than 50 activities,some with a technology component; questions for journal writing and for projects and field-based activities; troubleshooting sections offering alternative suggestions and activities for those middle-grade students who may find a particular literacy focus challenging.

About this title

About the Author:

Nancy Lee Cecil is Professor of Education, California State University, Sacramento, USA.

Joan P. Gipe is Professor Emerita, University of New Orleans, and Lecturer, California State University, Sacramento, USA. 

Marcy E. Merrill is Professor of Education, California State University, Sacramento, USA.

Review:

It is an excellent text for beginning teachers of students in grades 4-8. It remains my go-to text for our introductory teaching-of-reading course that all our [intermediate teaching] candidates take. --Mary Paxton, Shippensburg University

One of the best parts of this text are the relevant classroom examples and activities. Our students always appreciate this feature.... This text has been great for our students. --Kathy Rosebrock, University of San Francisco

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1934432830
• ISBN 13: 9781934432839
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 430