Literacy

Helping Students Construct Meaning

J. David Cooper, Michael Robinson, Jill Slansky, Nancy D. Kiger

• Publisher: Cengage Learning EMEA
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9781305960602
• eBook ISBN:
  9781337516075
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business Education
• Index: Business

A leading resource for K–8 literacy programs, this extremely popular reading methods text has a simple goal: to provide aspiring teachers (including you) with the tools to help every student learn to read and write. LITERACY: HELPING STUDENTS CONSTRUCT MEANING, 10th Edition has been completely reorganized to better meet the needs of its readers; for instance, with early coverage of assessment in recognition of its foundational nature. Distinguished in the field by its use of practical literacy lessons and authentic examples that clearly demonstrate how to teach reading and writing, the text continues to provide pre-service and in-service teachers with the information, strategies, and techniques they need to assist their students in becoming literate. The Common Core State Standards are fully integrated throughout the text, and full-color children's stories (in excerpts or in their entirety) model extended literacy lessons.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Preface
• About the Authors
• Introduction
• To the Student Reading This Text
• Understanding This Text
• Chapter 1: What You Need to Know to Be an Effective Literacy Teacher
• Chapter 2: Frameworks for Effective Standards-Based Literacy Lessons
• Chapter 3: Assessment and Evaluation that Informs Instruction
• Chapter 4: Prior Knowledge: Activating and Developing Concepts and Vocabulary
• Chapter 5: How to Teach Strategies for Constructing Meaning
• Chapter 6: Beginning Literacy
• Chapter 7: Intermediate Grades and Middle School: Decoding, Vocabulary, and Meaning
• Chapter 8: Responding and the Construction of Meaning
• Chapter 9: Writing and the Construction of Meaning
• Chapter 10: Helping Struggling Readers
• Chapter 11: Developing a Management System for a Comprehensive Balanced Literacy Classroom
• A HANDBOOK RESOURCE: Word Skills: Phonics and Structural Analysis for Teachers
• Glossary
• References
• Author/Source Index
• Subject Index