This book helps teachers create a comprehensive early literacy program that places direct skills instruction within the context of rich and varied reading and writing experiences. In her clear and engaging style, the author addresses language acquisition, the beginnings of literacy, teaching to standards, informational reading and writing, new literacies, and common questions about using assessment to inform instruction; she also provides guidance and strategies for working with English learners and struggling readers. The fourth edition has been updated to reflect current research and field knowledge.    New to the Fourth Edition  A new chapter on literacy and technology. Exciting new innovations that can help teachers engage children in literacy in today s world are discussed in a new chapter. It includes information on writing electronically, reading and finding information online, creating multimodal/hypertext projects, and communicating and collaborating online.   An in-depth section on literacy from birth to the primary grades. A new section shows what to expect from children at every stage of literacy development--from birth to conventional reader.   A discussion of Response to Intervention. The implications of RTI for literacy teachers are highlighted.   New case examples. Expanded teaching scenarios look at such topics as RTI in action helping one child achieve literacy success and providing explicit instruction of a comprehension strategy. In the assessment chapter, the case example follows a specific child from diagnosis to intervention to avid reader, showing the teacher s decision-making processes along the way.   New sections throughout. This new material looks at national standards, visual literacy including viewing and visually representing, formative and summative assessment, guidelines for selecting multicultural literature, putting together a family literacy night, and conducting a literature circle, among other topics.   An expanded children's literature appendix. The appendix now includes books that are ideal for enhancing vocabulary, writing skills, and comprehension.   Greater emphasis on working with English learners. New ideas and consideration for English learner, together with variations of activities and strategies, have been incorporated throughout.   Now full color throughout. The book's new color layout enhances the features and pedogogy and will help to engage readers more fully.    Other Special Features  An updated interactive companion website and study guide.   In the Classroom chapter-opening vignettes.   More than 40 hands-on activities for use in the classroom.   Step-by-step instructions are included to help readers put these activities to work in their own classes.   Questions for journal writing and discussion.    Suggestions for projects and field activities.    Glossary.   Assessment devices.

Striking a Balance: A Comprehensive Approach to Early Literacy: A Comprehensive Approach to Early Literacy

Education & Teaching

Nancy Lee Cecil

Schools & Teaching

Routledge

Striking a Balance: Best Practices for Early Literacy

Teaching to the Heart: An Affective Approach to Reading Instruction

Sheffield

Freedom Fighters, 2/E is about teaching the language arts, but it is much more than that. The book is an urgent appeal for teachers to arm their students with the power to communicate freely and unself-consciously by offering to them the joy that comes from knowing how to express themselves. The book charges that caring teachers are the REAL Freedom Fighters - freeing children to communicate by providing them with the tools of the language arts and the confidence to use them, while sharing enthusiastically in their successes.

Freedom Fighters: Affective Teaching of the Language Arts

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Sheffield Pub Co

This popular book was written to help prepare pre-service and practicing teachers meet the challenge of today's diverse student population. It will help them create a balanced, comprehensive program that places direct skills instruction within the context of rich and varied reading and writing experiences. The author addresses language acquisition, the beginnings of literacy, teaching to standards, informational text, and common questions about using assessment to inform instruction; she also provides guidance and strategies for working with English language learners and struggling readers.The third edition has been updated to reflect current research and field knowledge. Other new features include a new chapter on informational reading and writing, new learning activities that involve using the book's informal assessment tools and researching relevant websites, and new instructional activities.

All children are natural poets―even those who are academically at-risk. In For the Love of Language, the author illustrates how literacy scaffolds can release the poet within every child. Explore colour, nonsense, and shape poems; modelled poetry, free verse, alliteration, limericks; haiku, argument, alphabet poems; and many more. Each poetry activity provides a description, an easy-to-follow pattern, lead-in activities, and student-written samples. Winner of Learning Magazine Teachers’ Choice Award.

For the Love of Language: Poetry for Every Learner

Portage & Main Press

Poetry writing, says Nancy Lee Cecil, helps students build self-esteem and express themselves in their own way. In For the Love of Language, the author showed how literacy scaffolds can release the poet in every child. Now, in For the Love of Poetry, the author features 35 new literacy scaffolds. Each provides a description, an easy-to-follow pattern, lead-in activities, and two example poems written by students. Each scaffold also includes cross-curricular extension activities―including math, language arts, social studies, art, and music―based on the ideas students write in their poetry. For the Love of Poetry will inspire confidence in students of all ages and backgrounds, both as writers and as people.

For the Love of Poetry: Literacy Scaffolds, Extension Ideas, and More

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

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Striking a Balance: A Comprehensive Approach to Early Literacy: A Comprehensive Approach to Early Literacy

Striking a Balance: Best Practices for Early Literacy

Teaching to the Heart: An Affective Approach to Reading Instruction

Freedom Fighters: Affective Teaching of the Language Arts

Striking a Balance: Best Practices for Early Literacy

For the Love of Language: Poetry for Every Learner

For the Love of Poetry: Literacy Scaffolds, Extension Ideas, and More