Striking a Balance
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Striking a Balance

A Comprehensive Approach to Early Literacy

  1. 520 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Striking a Balance

A Comprehensive Approach to Early Literacy

About this book

Now in its sixth edition, Striking a Balance clearly illustrates how to create a comprehensive early literacy program that places direct skills instruction within the context of rich and varied reading and writing experiences.

Text discussions, dynamic activities, and valuable appendices provide a variety of effective instructional resources, selected based on research and teacher testimonials. The sixth edition incorporates recent updates to national and state standards, as well as expanded sections on working with English language learners and students with special needs, while maintaining the book's essential features: classroom vignettes, discussion questions, field-based activities, a student website, and study guide.

An essential resource for early literacy instructors, this textbook's practical approach fundamentally demonstrates how children develop authentic literacy skills through a combination of direct strategy instruction and motivating contexts.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9781138336780
eBook ISBN
9780429810305
Edition
6
Topic
Education
Subtopic
Education General
Focus 
Questions
What 
are 
the 
fundamental 
processes 
of 
reading?
Why 
is 
it 
important 
for 
teachers 
in 
the 
field 
to 
understand 
all 
aspects 
of 
the 
reading 
process?
How 
is 
reading 
dened 
by 
researchers 
and 
practitioners 
in 
the 
eld?
In 
the 
Classroom
Although 
this 
vignette 
is 
titled 
“In 
the 
Classroom,” 
in 
actuality 
the 
learning-to-read 
process 
begins 
long 
before 
4-year-old 
Lydia 
ever 
enters 
school. 
She 
has 
developed 
certain 
concepts 
about 
the 
function 
of 
print 
from 
the 
numerous 
signs 
in 
her 
urban 
environment 
and 
by 
observing 
how 
readers 
in 
her 
home 
interact 
with 
books, 
magazines, 
newspapers, 
and 
other 
reading 
material. 
For 
example, 
when 
she 
sees 
her 
older 
brother 
scan 
the 
fast-food 
menu 
and 
then 
order 
a 
hamburger 
and 
fries, 
she 
is 
discovering 
that 
those 
black 
squiggles 
carry 
meaning. 
When 
she 
asks 
her 
mother 
to 
write 
her 
name 
and 
her 
mother 
sounds 
it 
out 
in 
front 
of 
her, 
she 
observes 
that 
words 
are 
composed 
of 
a 
string 
of 
letters 
and 
that 
those 
let-
ters 
are 
composed 
of 
sounds 
that 
hold 
meaning.
1
A 
Child 
Learns 
to 
Read
Process 
and 
Product

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Brief Table of Contents
  6. Contents
  7. 1 A Child Learns to Read: Process and Product
  8. 2 A Quest for Balance: Moving Forward
  9. 3 Emergent Literacy: From Birth to Conventional Literacy
  10. 4 Phonemic Awareness: The Sounds of Our Language
  11. 5 Phonics, Sight Vocabulary, and Fluency: Why and How
  12. 6 Spelling: A Writer’s Tool
  13. 7 Acquiring Word Meanings: The Building Blocks of Literacy
  14. 8 Reading Comprehension: Making Sense of Print
  15. 9 Writing-Reading Connections: Reciprocal Paths to Literacy
  16. 10 Informational Text in the Classroom: Reading and Writing to Learn
  17. 11 Large- and Small-Group Reading Strategies: Creating a Literate Community
  18. 12 Literacy and Technology in a Balanced Classroom: Exploring Today’s Resources
  19. 13 Assessment of Early Literacy Development: Informing Instruction
  20. 14 Home as Partner: The Shared Connection
  21. 15 The Early Literacy Classroom: Orchestrating a Comprehensive Program
  22. APPENDICES
  23. Glossary
  24. References
  25. Index