Letter Lessons and First Words

Letter Lessons and First Words

Author: Heidi Anne Mesmer

Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9780325105444

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"This is part of the Research-Informed Classroom series and is about the importance of teaching phonics and language development in young children"--


On Reading Books to Children

On Reading Books to Children

Author: Anne van Kleeck

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-04-02

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 1135643741

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Brings together current research on adult book reading to children; chapter authors are eminent scholars from fields of reading and literacy, child language, speech pathology, and psychology, representing diverse perspectives.


Developmental Education for Young Children

Developmental Education for Young Children

Author: Bert van Oers

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-06-16

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9400746172

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Developmental Education is an approach to education in school that aims at promoting children’s cultural development and their abilities to participate autonomously and well-informed in the cultural practices of their community. From the point of view of Cultural-historical Activity theory (CHAT), a play-based curriculum has been developed over the past decades for primary school, which presents activity contexts for pupils in the classroom that create learning and teaching opportunities for helping pupils with appropriating cultural knowledge, skills, and moral understandings in meaningful ways. The approach is implemented in numerous Dutch primary schools classrooms with the explicit intention to support the learning of both pupils and teachers. The book focuses especially on education of young children (4 – 8 years old) in primary school and presents the underpinning concepts of this approach, and chapters on examples of good practices in a variety of subject matter areas, such as literacy (vocabulary acquisition, reading, writing), mathematics, and arts. Successful implementation of Developmental Education in the classroom strongly depends on dynamic assessment and continuous observations of young pupils’ development. Strategies for implementation of both the teaching practices and assessment strategies are discussed in detail in the book.


Who's Doing the Work?

Who's Doing the Work?

Author: Jan Miller Burkins

Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 1625310757

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In their follow-up to Reading Wellness, Jan Burkins and Kim Yaris explore how some traditional scaffolding practices may actually rob students of important learning opportunities and independence. Who's Doing the Work? suggests ways to make small but powerful adjustments to instruction that hold students accountable for their own learning. Educators everywhere are concerned about students whose reading development inexplicably plateaus, as well as those who face challenging texts without applying the strategies they've been taught. When such problems arise, our instinct is to do more. But when we summarize text before reading or guide students when they encounter difficult words, are we leading them to depend on our support? If we want students to use strategies independently, Jan and Kim believe that we must question the ways our scaffolding is getting in the way. Next generation reading instruction is responsive to students' needs, and it develops readers who can integrate reading strategies without prompting from instructors. In Who's Doing The Work?, Jan and Kim examine how instructional mainstays such as read-aloud, shared reading, guided reading, and independent reading look in classrooms where students do more of the work. Classroom snapshots at the end of each chapter help translate the ideas in the book into practice. Who's Doing the Work? offers a vision for adjusting reading instruction to better align with the goal of creating independent, proficient, and joyful readers.


I Went Walking

I Went Walking

Author:

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2005-08

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9780152056261

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During the course of a walk, a young boy identifies animals of different colors.


The Tale of the Trollgre

The Tale of the Trollgre

Author: Kyle McMahon

Publisher:

Published: 2020-10-12

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780578780771

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A trollgre? What is a trollgre? A boy is chased by a monster called the trollgre and he meets new friends along the way. Find out just how scary a trollgre really is.


Comprehensive Literacy for All

Comprehensive Literacy for All

Author: Karen A. Erickson

Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company

Published: 2019-12-17

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781598576573

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An essential resource for educators, speech-language pathologists, and parents--and an ideal text for courses that cover literacy and significant disabilities--this book will help you ensure that all students have the reading and writing skills they need to unlock new opportunities and reach their potential.


The Bloomsbury Handbook of Reading Perspectives and Practices

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Reading Perspectives and Practices

Author: Bethan Marshall

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-10-15

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1350137588

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Shortlisted for the UK Literacy Association's Academic Book Award 2021 The Bloomsbury Handbook of Reading Perspectives and Practices focuses on the experiences of reading from a young age to maturity and the different ways reading is encountered: in other words, the processes involved as well as the outcomes. The international group of experts, within both teaching and academia, focuses on reading in school: how is it taught? What is taught? How is it assessed? Controversial issues are explored: the acquisition of phonics; teaching the canon, including or ignoring digital texts; the advent of standards-based tests. The contributions also consider people's biographies of reading, their memories of reading in school and their current views on literature. Together, this well-edited volume provides a more complete view of reading than is currently on offer, exploring all aspects of what it means to be literate and how we define being literate.