Fifty Literacy Strategies: Step By Step - Softcover

Tompkins, Gail E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0138603707 ISBN 13: 9780138603700

Publisher: Pearson, 1997

Synopsis

Elementary Reading or Language Arts.

One of today's leading literacy and language arts authors provides future and current teachers with practical, hands-on approaches for teaching literacy in this text that contains 50 research-based and field tested strategies. It includes strategies for reading, writing, listening, speaking, and visualizing. Each strategy includes general information (defining terms, purpose of the strategy, application, and research citations); a list of steps for implementing the strategy; and a concluding paragraph that gives ideas for application and additional examples.

About this title

From the Back Cover

The new edition of 50 Literacy Strategies: Step by Step by Gail E. Tompkins is a conveniently organized resource for all elementary and middle school teachers, providing research-based and classroom-tested instructional strategies to develop literacy abilities.  Everything you need to know to implement each activity effectively and quickly is included in a consistent, easy-to-understand format. 

 

Each of the instructional strategies outlines:

·      Instructional Focus: Whether the strategy develops oral language, phonics/phonemic awareness, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, writing, spelling, and/or content areas

·      Grade Level: Whether the strategy is appropriate for k-2, 3-5 or 6-8

·      Scaffolding English Learners: How the strategy is particularly appropriate, or how it can be adapted to better meet the needs of, English Learners

·      Step by Step: As always, clearly outlined steps to implement the strategy

·      Why and When to Use the Strategy: Sections to help you determine when each activity is most appropriate

·      Authentic Student Samples: Artifacts from the classroom that model the responses you will receive from students

 

The instructional strategies are organized alphabetically and numbered for easy reference.  Inside the cover is an index grouping strategies by instructional focus, providing another helpful guide to finding the strategy needed.

About the Author

Gail E. Tompkins is Professor Emerita at California State Unversity, Fresno, and she continues to direct the San Joaquin Valley Writing Project.  She regularly works with teachers in their kindergarten through eighth-grade classrooms and leads staff development programs on reading, language arts, and writing.  In 1998 Dr. Tompkins was inducted into the California Reading Association's Reading Hall of Fame in recognition of her publication and other accomplishments in the field of reading, and recently she was awarded the prestigious Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching at California's State University, Fresno.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0138603707
• ISBN 13: 9780138603700
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128