The Reading Teacher's Book of Lists

Jacqueline E. Kress, Edward B. Fry

• Editorial: Jossey-Bass
• Año: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781119080930
• Edición: 6
• Categoría: Education
• Categoría: Teaching Methods for Reading

The essential handbook for reading teachers, now aligned with the Common Core

The Reading Teacher's Book of Lists is the definitive instructional resource for anyone who teaches reading or works in a K-12 English language arts-related field. Newly revised and ready for instant application, this top seller provides up-to-date reading, writing, and language content in more than 240 lists for developing targeted instruction, plus section briefs linking content to research-based teaching practices. This new sixth edition includes a guide that maps the lists to specific Common Core standards for easy lesson planning, and features fifty brand-new lists on: academic and domain-specific vocabulary, foundation skills, rhyming words, second language development, context clues, and more. This edition also includes an expanded writing section that covers registers, signal and transition words, and writers' craft. Brimming with practical examples, key words, teaching ideas, and activities that can be used as-is or adapted to students' needs, these lists are ready to differentiate instruction for an individual student, small-group, or planning multilevel instruction for your whole class.

Reading is the center of all school curricula due to recent state and federal initiatives including rigorous standards and new assessments. This book allows to you skip years of curating content and dive right into the classroom armed with smart, relevant, and effective plans.

• Develop focused learning materials quickly and easily
• Create unit-specific Common Core aligned lesson plans
• Link classroom practice to key research in reading, language arts and learning
• Adapt ready-made ideas to any classroom or level

It's more important than ever for students to have access to quality literacy instruction. Timely, up to date, and distinctively smart, The Reading Teacher's Book of Lists should be on every English language arts teacher's desk, librarian's shelf, literacy coach's resource list, and reading professor's radar.

Section 1

Foundations

1. List 1. Typical Literacy Development
2. List 2. Speech Sound Development
3. List 3. Sound-Awareness Books
4. List 4. Rhyming Books
5. List 5. Predictable Books
6. List 6. Books without Words
7. List 7. Print Concepts
8. List 8. Phonics Awareness
9. List 9. Rhyming Words
10. List 10. Minimal Pairs
11. List 11. Word Segmentation
12. List 12. Active Response Activities
13. List 13. Handwriting Charts
14. List 14. Reading and Language Tips for Parents of Young Children
15. List 15. Language Arts Glossary for Parents and Others

The foundation for reading and literacy starts long before children enter school and begin formal instruction. It emerges through the complex interactions of children's physical, cognitive, and social-emotional development. Research shows this development proceeds more or less in the same order for all children unless they have a disability and that most children learn to speak by age three and learn to read by age seven. Knowing the progression of literacy-related development from birth to age seven helps teachers and others recognize young children who are typically developing and those who are not. It also aids planning and support for children's learning by pointing out the developmental progression of skills acquisition.

By the time children attend school there are discernable differences in their language use and familiarity with print and other literacy-related activities. To help children be successful direct instruction is needed. In direct instruction, teachers focus attention on specific skills and provide lots of opportunity for practicing them. ...