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Features

• Thorough research and broad-based knowledge born of the same expertise as that of a literacy education best-seller by a well-respected author—Few options exist for this new course.

  • Prepares future teachers for new certification requiring separate courses for Pre-K through Grades 3 and 4—ensures they learn best practice from a recognized expert.

• Minilessons throughout the material—The hallmark of a Gail Tompkins text.

  • Creates a blueprint for how to teach a wealth of skills and strategies within the reading/writing classroom.

• CD-ROM—Features multilingual,multi-grade (K-3) classroom footage of a master teacher engaged in an integrated literacy lesson.

  • Free with the text this CD of virtual classroom experiences takes students into the classroom of a practicing teacher and helps them see how literacy teaching happens, and how it is best done..

• Margin notes specific to ESL and Pre-K populations.

  • Identifies the best strategies for these groups of learners—helps future teachers begin building their own repertoire of techniques.

• Full-color insert and margin notes explain when to use the text's CD-ROM supplement.

  • Instructions in the color insert guide students through the CD features and aslo explain how students can set up their own custom study to create materail for a teaching portfolio.

• Spotlight features in Chapter 2 including artifacts and analysis of strengths and weaknesses for three young learners.

  • Illustrates best practice for these “example” learners—highlighting techniques for providing individual attention, assessment, and evaluation.

• Spotlight features in Chapters 10 and 12.

  • Shows how teachers organize for instruction.

• Chapter-opening vignettes and How Effective Teachers... at the end of each chapter—Highlight real classrooms and real teaching strategies.

  • Shows students how “good” teachers do it—helps them imagine themselves in the role of classroom teacher.

Table of Contents



 1. Becoming an Effective Teacher of Reading.


 2. Examining Children's Literacy Development.


 3. Assessing Children's Literacy Development.


 4. Breaking the Alphabetic Code.


 5. Learning to Spell.


 6. Developing Fluent Readers and Writers.


 7. Expanding Children's Knowledge of Words.


 8. Guiding Children's Comprehension.


 9. Becoming Familiar with the Structure of Text.


10. Scaffolding Children's Reading Development.


11. Scaffolding Children's Writing Development.


12. Integrating Reading and Writing into Thematic Units.


Compendium of Instructional Procedures.


Glossary.


Indexes.

Courses

Emergent Literacy  (Reading & Literacy)
Elementary Reading Methods (K-8)  (Reading & Literacy)

Author Bios

Gail E. Tompkins is a Professor at California State University, Fresno, in the Department of Literacy and, Early Education, where she teaches courses in reading, language arts, and writing for preservice teachers and students in the reading/language arts master's degree program. She directs the San Joaquin Valley Writing Project and works regularly with teachers, both by teaching model lessons in classrooms and by leading staff development programs. Recently Dr. Tompkins was inducted into the California Reading Association's Reading Hall of Fame in s recognition of her publications and other accomplishments in the field of reading. She has also been awarded the prestigious Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching at California State University, Fresno.

Previously, Dr. Tompkins taught at Miami University in Ohio and at the University of Oklahoma in Norman where she received the prestigious Regents' Award for Superior Teaching. She was also an elementary teacher in Virginia for eight years.

Dr. Tompkins is the author of three books published by Merrill/Prentice Hall: Teaching Writing: Balancing Process and Product, 3rd (2000), 50 Literacy Strategies (1998), and Language Arts: Content and Teaching Strategies, 5th ed. (2002). She has written numerous articles related to reading and language arts that have appeared in The Reading Teacher, Language Arts, and other professional journals.

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Literacy for the 21st Century: Teaching Reading and Writing in Pre-Kindergarten Through Grade 4 provides a solid foundation in the content of literacy instruction—phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension—liberally spiced with Gail Tompkins's trademark "minilessons" and illustrated with children's writing samples. Included are a wealth of age-appropriate assessment tools, authentic classroom activities, and illustrative examples of how effective teachers engage children in preschool through primary grades in the captivating act of reading and writing.

Features of this text include:

• Teaching notes that identify the best strategies for ELL and PreK populations.
• Free CD-ROM that features video footage from authentic K-4 classrooms. The CD is integrated into the text via margin notes and a full-color insert.
• Chapter-opening vignettes and How Effective Teachers... at the end of each chapter to highlight real classrooms and real teaching strategies.
• Spotlight features for looking closely at individual students and teachers—highlighting individual attention, assessment and evaluation, and the best teaching practices while emphasizing a focus on struggling readers and English language learners.

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©2003  |  Allyn & Bacon  |  On-line Supplement; 0 pp  |  Live
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