An edition of Literacy in the Early Grades
(2010)
Literacy in the Early Grades
a successful start for PreK-4 readers and writers
3rd ed.
by Gail E. Tompkins
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With this third edition of Literacy in the Early Grades: A Successful Start for PreK-4 Readers and Writers, best selling author, Gail Tompkins, focuses her attention on the needs of students in PreKindergarten through Grade 4, and on the teachers who will prepare them for reading and writing success. With unsurpassed classroom application in the form of authentic classroom vignettes, student work samples, minilessons, assessment tools, video case studies, and the Compendium of Instructional Procedures, the text continues to cover the information new and experienced teachers need to know to teach literacy effectively. - Back cover.
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Language arts (Preschool), Language, Language arts (Early childhood), Study and teaching (Elementary), Child development, Language arts (Elementary), Children, Literacy, Language arts (elementary), Language arts, Children, language, Language arts (preschool), Language arts (early childhood), Study and teaching (elementary)
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Table of Contents
Introducing Ms. Janusz and her second graders
Becoming an effective teacher of reading.
Principle 1: Effective teachers understand how children learn
Principle 2: Effective teachers support children's use of the cueing systems
Principle 3: Effective teachers create a community of learners
Principle 4: Effective teachers adopt a balanced approach to instruction
Principle 5: Effective teachers scaffold children's reading and writing
Principle 6: Effective teachers organize for literacy instruction
Principle 7: Effective teachers differentiate instruction
Principal 8: Effective teachers link instruction and assessment
Review: How effective teachers teach reading and writing
Examining children's literacy development.
Vignette: Ms. McCloskey's students become readers and writers
Nurturing children's oral language development
Fostering an interest in literacy
How children develop as readers and writers
Review: How effective teachers support children's literacy development
Assessing children's literacy development.
Vignette: Mrs. McNeal conducts second-quarter assessments
Classroom-based reading assessment
Portfolio assessment
High-stakes testing
Review: How effective teachers assess children's literacy development
Cracking the alphabetic code.
Vignette: Mrs. Firpo teaches phonics
Phonemic awareness
Phonics
Review: How effective teachers assist children in "cracking the code"
Learning to spell.
Vignette: Mrs. Zumwalt differentiates spelling instruction
Stages of spelling development
Teaching spelling
Review: How effective teachers teach spelling
Developing fluent readers and writers.
Vignette: Ms. Williams teaches high-frequency words
Reading fluency
Writing fluency
Review: How effective teachers develop fluent readers and writers
Building children's word knowledge.
Vignette: Mr. Wagner teaches vocabulary
Children's vocabulary knowledge
Word-study concepts
Teaching children about words
Review: How effective teachers build children's word knowledge
Facilitating children's comprehension: reader factors.
Vignette: Third graders become strategic readers
What is comprehension?
Teaching about reader factors
Review: How effective teachers facilitate children's comprehension
Facilitating children's comprehension: text factors.
Vignette: Fourth graders learn about frogs
Text factors of stories
Text factors of informational books
Text factors of poetry
Teaching about text factors
Review: How effective teachers facilitate children's comprehension
Scaffolding children's reading development.
Vignette: Mrs. Ohashi uses the reading process
The reading process
Organizing for instruction
Review: How effective teachers scaffold children's reading development
Scaffolding children's writing development.
Vignette: First graders participate in writing workshop
The writing process
Teaching writing
The writing process in action
Review: How effective teachers scaffold children's writing development
Integrating literacy into thematic units.
Vignette: Third graders create multigenre projects
Connecting reading and writing
Demonstrating learning
Thematic units
Review: How effective teachers integrate literacy into thematic units
Compendium of instructional procedures
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