Full Description
Featuring a holistic approach that integrates literacy, educational psychology, and the arts, this early literacy textbook provides creative strategies and activities to help you meet the needs of diverse learners, birth through age nine. Comprehensive, yet written in a conversational style, it presents ideas to use as a springboard for developing your own unique style and method of literacy instruction. Sample activities by age groups facilitate a flexible foundation of curriculum design. Chapter features -- including Lesson Ideas, Vignettes, Diverse Learners, Brain Briefs, Literacy Assessment, and Teacher Toolbox -- reinforce concepts, illustrate theories, and offer practical teaching examples. With this text, you'll learn how to support and inspire children on their journeys to becoming lifelong readers and writers.
Contents
Part I: BUILDING LITERACY FOUNDATIONS.
1. Theoretical Foundations in Literacy, Psychology, and the Arts.
2. Emergent and Early Literacy.
3. Literacy Assessment.
Part II: ENGAGING LEARNERS IN LITERACY.
4. Phonics and Word Identification.
5. Vocabulary Development and Instruction.
6. Reading Comprehension.
7. Writing and Spelling Development.
Part III: INTERACTING CREATIVELY WITH LITERACY.
8. Family Literacy and Classroom Connections.
9. Diverse Learners and Literacy.
10. Teaching Literacy Through the Arts.
APPENDIX: INTEGRATED LESSON PLANS.
Lesson 1: Accepting Diversity and Self Identity.
Lesson 2: Planting the Seeds of Literacy.
Lesson 3: Expressing Ideas and Connecting with Others.
Lesson 4: Exploring Word Study.
Lesson 5: Thinking Creatively for Vocabulary Comprehension.
Glossary.
References for Children's Literature.
References.
