Bridges to Reading, 3-6
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Bridges to Reading, 3-6

Teaching Reading Skills with Children's Literature

  1. 179 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Bridges to Reading, 3-6

Teaching Reading Skills with Children's Literature

About this book

Now you can use quality children's literature to teach traditional reading skills! Providing a balance between traditional and literature-based instruction, these books include stimulating and instructive lessons based on approximately 150 skills commonly found in basal readers. These lessons utilize a variety of strategies that can be applied to teaching myriad skills-from alphabet and alphabetization to word recognition skills. Each featured book includes a variety of activities and a list of related books. Semantic feature analysis, attribute charts, writing activities, problem-solving, genre analysis, wordplay, and phonetic analysis are just some of the strategies covered. Wonderful tools for enlivening reading instruction, these resources reconcile the need to teach basic skills with the desire to use children's literature.

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Yes, you can access Bridges to Reading, 3-6 by Suzanne I. Barchers in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Library & Information Science. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Introduction
  3. Alphabet
  4. Alphabetization
  5. Auditory Discrimination
  6. Classification
  7. Comparison
  8. Comprehension: Creative
  9. Comprehension: Inferential
  10. Comprehension: Literal Versus Figurative
  11. Figurative Language
  12. Finding Details
  13. Generalization
  14. Genres: Biography
  15. Genres: Fairy and Folktales
  16. Genres: Fantasy
  17. Genres: Historical Fiction
  18. Genres: Informational
  19. Genres: Journals and Diaries
  20. Genres: Mystery
  21. Genres: Poetry
  22. Genres: Realistic Fiction
  23. Genres: Science Fiction
  24. Genres: Tall Tales
  25. Idiomatic Language
  26. Letter Writing
  27. Literary Elements and Features: Author's Purpose
  28. Literary Elements and Features: Characterization
  29. Literary Elements and Features: Conclusion
  30. Literary Elements and Features: Context Clues
  31. Literary Elements and Features: Fact
  32. Literary Elements and Features: Fiction
  33. Literary Elements and Features: Main Idea
  34. Literary Elements and Features: Narrative Order
  35. Literary Elements and Features: Parody
  36. Literary Elements and Features: Personification
  37. Literary Elements and Features: Plot Conflict
  38. Literary Elements and Features: Point of View
  39. Literary Elements and Features: Realism Versus Fantasy
  40. Literary Elements and Features: Setting
  41. Literary Elements and Features: Spin-Offs
  42. Literary Elements and Features: Style
  43. Literary Elements and Features: Subplots
  44. Literary Elements and Features: Theme
  45. Literary Elements and Features: Tone
  46. Metaphorical Language
  47. Oral Reading
  48. Paraphrasing
  49. Parts of Speech: Adjectives
  50. Parts of Speech: Adverbs
  51. Parts of Speech: Nouns
  52. Parts of Speech: Prepositions
  53. Parts of Speech: Verbs
  54. Phrases/Sentences
  55. Prediction
  56. Rhyme
  57. Sequence
  58. Summarization
  59. Text Structure: Cause/Effect
  60. Text Structure: Compare/Contrast
  61. Text Structure: Descriptive
  62. Text Structure: Enumerative
  63. Text Structure: Problem/Solution
  64. Text Structure: Sequential
  65. Visual Perception
  66. Vocabulary: Appreciating Words
  67. Vocabulary: Direct Instruction
  68. Vocabulary: Etymology
  69. Vocabulary: Indirect Instruction
  70. Wordplay: Alliteration
  71. Wordplay: Homonyms
  72. Wordplay: Jokes and Riddles
  73. Wordplay: Onomatopoeia
  74. Word Recognition: Decoding
  75. Word Recognition: Function Words
  76. Word Recognition: Phonemic Awareness
  77. Word Recognition: Sight Words
  78. Appendix
  79. Index of Authors and Titles
  80. About the Author