Striking a Balance
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Striking a Balance

A Comprehensive Approach to Early Literacy

Nancy L. Cecil, Albert Lozano, Mae Chaplin

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Striking a Balance

A Comprehensive Approach to Early Literacy

Nancy L. Cecil, Albert Lozano, Mae Chaplin

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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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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2020
ISBN
9780429810305
Edition
6
Topic
Bildung
Subtopic
Bildung Allgemein
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

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