Helping Children Learn to Read: Creating a Classroom Literacy Environment - Softcover

Searfoss, Lyndon W.; Readence, John E.; Mallette, Marla H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0205270190 ISBN 13: 9780205270194

Publisher: Pearson, 2000

Synopsis

This K-8 methods text shows how to implement a balanced classroom literacy program.

Helping Children Learn to Read presents, in a clear, readable style, the current theories and techniques for creating a literacy program in elementary grades. There is strong coverage of the role of commercial and basal materials, the whole language perspective, and the integrated language arts curriculum. The book has a teaching-strategies orientation to decoding, vocabulary, comprehension, studying, and writing. There is also extensive discussion of emergent literacy, multicultural literature, metacognition, and holistic assessment.

The text incorporates learning aids throughout each chapter. These include: Graphic Organizers, Objectives, Process Guides within the chapter for key concepts, Follow-Through Activities, Working with Parents, and Resources.

About this title

About the Author

Nell K. Duke, EdD, is Associate Professor of Teacher Education and Learning, Technology, and Culture at Michigan State University, East Lansing. Her research focuses on early literacy development, particularly among children living in urban poverty. Her specific areas of expertise include the development of informational literacies in young children, comprehension teaching and learning in early schooling, approaches to addressing the needs of struggling reader/n-/writers, and issues of equity in literacy education. She has used a variety of research methodologies in her own work and teaches courses on research design. Dr. Duke has a strong interest in the preparation of educational researchers and has published and presented on this topic.
Marla H. Mallette, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Literacy Education at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Her research interests include literacy teacher education, literacy instruction and learning with students of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, and the convergence of early literacy and technology. She is very interested in research methodologies and has used various methodologies in her own work. Dr. Mallette has also published and presented on literacy research methodologies and the preparation of literacy researchers.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0205270190
• ISBN 13: 9780205270194
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 416