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Tompkins, Literacy for the 21^st Century, 4^th Edition, will be the book your students will want to keep in their own classroom because it offers readers:

AUTHENTIC CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE: Readers see effective literacy instruction in action with authentic examples of real classrooms and real teachers.

• Classroom vignettes open every chapter and share authentic classroom lessons and student artifacts.

BALANCE: This text strengthens and clarifies a vision of literacy instruction that explains how to balance the use of various methods and approaches to the teaching of skills and strategies.

• Expanded coverage of assessment—Includes specific examples of assessment tools
  • Provides classroom-ready implementation to help you create an assessment-driven literacy classroom. Ex. Pg. 294 

CLASSROOM PRACTICE: No introductory text gives prospective teachers a better vision of the joy and challenges of teaching reading and writing.  Loaded with ideas to take right into the classroom, Literacy for the 21^st Century systematically prepares teachers to meet the needs of developing readers and writers.

• Minilessons provide clear, concise skill and strategy instruction for teaching reading and writing in the classroom, ready for you to take right into your classrooms!
  • Enables students to see how real teachers develop and teach minilessons. Ex. Pg. 242, 271
• Compendium of Instructional Procedures, Provides students with steps to follow as they use the procedures during student teaching and in their own classrooms. 
  • This invaluable resource and quick reference will get you up and running quickly in your own classroom. Ex. Pg. 467
• A fully integrated Companion Website—integrates national and state standards
  • Providing users with standards-aligned lessons, as well as self-assessments, practice with Praxis-like questions, field activities, and web links. www.prenhall.com/Tompkins
• Ready for RICA website - link to this robust practice site from www.prenhall.com/tompkins
  • Cater your practice specifically to California's teacher examination and California's standards.

New To This Edition

Tompkins, Literacy for the 21^st Century, 4^th Edition, will be the book your students will want to keep in their own classroom because it offers readers:

• AUTHENTIC CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE: Readers see effective literacy instruction in action with authentic examples of real classrooms and real teachers
• NEW! Instructional Procedures: Scenes from the Compendium DVD in the back of every copy of the book
  • Helps readers develop context for classroom teaching by viewing teachers in action. See DVD in back of the book, Compendium of Instructional Procedures Ex. pg 499, and margin notes throughout linking narrative to DVD and compendium Ex. pg. 96.
  • Classroom vignettes open every chapter and share authentic classroom lessons and student artifacts. Ex. pg. 78-79

• BALANCE: This text strengthens and clarifies a vision of literacy instruction that explains how to balance the use of various methods and approaches to the teaching of skills and strategies.
• NEW! Strengthened coverage of basal reading programs as part of the coverage of the four instructional approaches that can organize instruction for today's classrooms, including Literature focus units, Literature circles, Reading and writing workshop
  • Provide readers with an easy to understand, handy, reference for integrating reading instruction into the daily classroom curriculum. Show TOC, Ch. 10.
• NEW! Components of a Balanced Literacy Program feature in every chapter makes it easy for readers to see how they can create a balanced K-8 literacy classroom.
  • Components of a balanced literacy program include phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, writing and more.  See Pg. vii in Preface and feature on pg. 224.

- Click on Feature under About This Product to see more about Balance.

• CLASSROOM PRACTICE: No introductory text gives prospective teachers a better vision of the joy and challenges of teaching reading and writing.  Loaded with ideas to take right into the classroom, Literacy for the 21^st Century systematically prepares teachers to meet the needs of developing readers and writers. 
• NEW! Nurturing English Learners features demonstrate how chapter content must be reconsidered in terms of the English learner. 
  • Provide readers with specific information and examples to allow them to practice, or reference, adapting traditional strategies to most effectively assist English Language Learners. Ex. Pg. 195
• NEW! Scaffolding Struggling Readers provides pivotal information for helping students who struggle make real progress in the literacy classroom.
  • Provides ideas for addressing struggling readers specific areas of need Ex. Pg. 208
• NEW! IRA/NCTE Standards Integration activities -- on Companion Website www.prenhall.com/tompkins
  • Provides adaptable lessons that can be saved to the readers hard drive or disk through the Online Portfolio, provides classroom-ready lessons that align with national and state standards  
• NEW! Praxis practice questions - on Companion Website www.prenhall.com/tompkins
  • Prepares readers for the Praxis II exam.
• NEW! Part of the Merrill Teacher Prep Textbook Series.  "Standards to Take Into Your Classroom" featured on the front and back cover of every Teacher Prep text lists page references for the book's strategies, plans, activities, lessons, and other resourceful materials for students to use in the classroom--making this text not just a book for learning, but a book for teaching.

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Table of Contents

Part 1:  What Is a Balanced and Comprehensive Approach to Literacy Instruction?

Chapter 1 Becoming an Effective Teacher of Reading

Chapter 2 Teaching the Reading and Writing Processes

Part 2:  How Do Children Learn to Read and Write?

Chapter 3 Working with Young Readers and Writers

Chapter 4 Breaking the Alphabetic Code

Chapter 5 Developing Fluent Readers and Writers

Chapter 6 Expanding Students’ Knowledge of Words

Chapter 7 Facilitating Students’ Comprehension: Reader Factors

Chapter 8 Facilitating Students’ Comprehension: Text Factors

Chapter 9 Assessing Students’ Literacy Development

Part 3:  How Do Teachers Organize Literacy Instruction?

Chapter 10 Teaching with Basal Reading Textbooks

Chapter 11 Teaching Literature Focus Units

Chapter 12 Orchestrating Literature Circles

Chapter 13 Implementing Reading and Writing Workshop

Chapter 14 Reading and Writing in the Content Areas

Courses

Elementary Reading Methods (K-8)  [CORE TEXTS]   (Reading & Literacy)

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• Literacy for the 21st Century: A Balanced Approach, 5/E
  Tompkins
  ©2010  |  Allyn & Bacon  |  Paper; 544 pp  |  Instock
  ISBN-10: 0135028922  |  ISBN-13: 9780135028926
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  The market leader in literacy education, Literacy for the 21^st Century: A Balanced Approach continues to evolve to meet the needs of a changing world. Crafted for the undergraduate K-8 literacy course, this comprehensive and thoroughly applied text continues to cover the information new and experienced teachers need to know to teach literacy effectively, and follows this information with the specific strategies to use in the classroom to develop successful readers and writers. Integrating the best of what we know about teaching reading and writing, and implementing the ideas that will lead us into the future of education, the fifth edition provides the balance new and experienced teachers need to be successful in the classroom.

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• Literacy for the 21st Century: A Balanced Approach (with MyEducationLab), 5/E
  Tompkins
  ©2010  |  Allyn & Bacon  |  Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap; 544 pp  |  Instock
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  The market leader in literacy education, Literacy for the 21^st Century: A Balanced Approach continues to evolve to meet the needs of a changing world. Crafted for the undergraduate K-8 literacy course, this comprehensive and thoroughly applied text continues to cover the information new and experienced teachers need to know to teach literacy effectively, and follows this information with the specific strategies to use in the classroom to develop successful readers and writers. Integrating the best of what we know about teaching reading and writing, and implementing the ideas that will lead us into the future of education, the fifth edition provides the balance new and experienced teachers need to be successful in the classroom.

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What makes Literacy for the 21^st Century the most valuable and relevant literacy text on the market?

Authenticity

Bringing in the voices of K-8 teachers and students, Literacy for the 21^st Century will help you envision the opportunities and challenges that await you when teaching reading and writing.  You will:

• View teachers in action through the thrilling new DVD created to help you see literacy strategies in the context of classroom teaching.
• Envision today’s classrooms through chapter opening vignettes that share stories from successful literacy classrooms.
• Observe literacy learning and assessment in the student work samples that appear throughout chapters, helping you recognize the ways students develop as readers and writers. 

Balance

Literacy for the 21^st Century strengthens and clarifies the ways to balance skills and strategies instruction with authentic reading and writing experiences. Careful study of this text will allow you to: 

• Understand literacy instruction in terms of four foundational instructional approaches: basal reading programs, literature focus units, literature circles, and reading and writing workshop.
• Recognize the ten Components of a Balanced Literacy Program through new chapter features, clarifying the elements to balance and the ways to do it successfully.

Classroom Practice

Loaded with ideas to take right into the classroom, Literacy for the 21^st Century truly prepares you to differentiate your teaching and meet the needs of all students.  Special features include:

• Nurturing English Learners features thatdemonstrate how chapter content must be reconsidered in terms of the English learner. 
• Scaffolding Struggling Readers features, providing pivotal information to help students who struggle make real progress in developing literacy competency.
• Minilessons that offerclear, concise skill and strategy instruction, ready for you to take right into your classrooms!
• A Compendium of Instructional Procedures composed of dozens of step-by-step instructional methods designed to get you up and running quickly in your own literacy classroom.

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