Creating Literacy Instruction for All Students in Grades 4 to 8 - Softcover

Gunning, Thomas G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0205356842 ISBN 13: 9780205356843

Publisher: Pearson, 2003

Synopsis

Based on its highly successful parent text, this comprehensive, practical text provides its readers with step-by-step guidance for teaching children in grades 4 to 8 all major aspects of reading and writing.

In response to today's needs to tailor instruction for the middle grades (4-8), this new text features sample lessons for virtually every major literacy skill/strategy and offers numerous reinforcement suggestions and generous listings of materials appropriate for the middle grades. The text presents the theories behind the methods, so readers will be free to choose, adapt, and/or construct their own approaches as they create a balanced evidence-based program of literacy instruction. Because understanding one's own literacy processes can lead to more effective teaching, the text invites readers to examine their reading and writing processes.

Because language is the basis for literacy, the text emphasizes language development at all levels. Given the current emphasis on “Leaving No Child Behind,” the text explores techniques and materials for helping below-level readers and writers. Included are listings of intervention programs for older struggling readers and suggestions for helping middle school students who are still having difficulty with decoding skills. With classrooms becoming increasingly diverse, the text details age-appropriate techniques for working with English language learners and at-risk students. Emphasis has also been placed on fostering comprehension and matching readers with appropriate texts. Because of the impact of the standards movement and related assessment issues, a full chapter is devoted to assessment. Lists of standards and assessment suggestions are provided at the end of each chapter on instructional techniques. Appendix B contains a series of informal measures of key skills.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Creating Literacy Instruction for All Children in Grades 4 to 8 is the first book of its kind. Based on its highly successful parent text, this comprehensive, practical text provides its readers with step-by-step guidance for teaching children in grades 4 to 8 all major aspects of reading and writing. In response to today's needs to tailor instruction for the middle grades (4-8), this new text features sample lessons for virtually every major literacy skill/strategy and offers numerous reinforcement suggestions and generous listings of materials appropriate for grades 4 to 8.

What Makes This Book the First of its Kind...

• “Lessons” throughout the text provide step-by-step lesson plans for nearly every area of literacy instruction. All lessons include suggestions for assessment.
• “Help for Struggling Readers and Writers” sections throughout the text!
• Emphasis on English Language Learners within regular classrooms and marginal annotations on Adapting Instruction for English Language Learners.
• Unique “Leveling Books System” enables students to better understand what makes a book difficult to read, and allows them to label books on their own!
• Unique Appendix A includes a graded listing of 800 books!
• Action Plans provide specific suggestions for applying each of the key concepts and assessment and teaching suggestions discussed in each chapter.

Dr. Thomas Gunning currently teaches a variety of reading methods courses at Central Connecticut State University. He has conducted research on phonics, and has created his own word analysis program, which is known as Word Building. The author has also created a number of informal assessment devices and conducted research on reading interests. He has devised a collaborative comprehension approach known as Reading Seminar. Dr. Gunning has written several published comprehension programs and just completed Building Literacy in the Content Areas. He recently revised Assessing and Correcting Reading and Writing Difficulties, 2e, (2002) and Creating Literacy Instruction for All Children, 4e, (2003). The author wrote Best Books for Beginning Readers (1997), Best Books for Building Literacy for Elementary School Children (1999), Building Words: A Resource Manual for Teaching Word Analysis and Spelling Skills and Strategies (2001), and Phonological Awareness and Primary Phonics (2000). All are Allyn & Bacon books.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0205356842
• ISBN 13: 9780205356843
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 544