Full Description
This established text and teacher resource is now in a revised and updated third edition, with a broader focus on whole-class instruction as well as small-group and individualized intervention. The evidence-based Interactive Strategies Approach (ISA) provides a clear framework for supporting literacy development in grades K-3, particularly for students who experience reading difficulties. The book gives teachers the knowledge needed to more effectively use existing curricular materials to meet core instructional goals in the areas of phonemic awareness, phonics, word solving/word learning, vocabulary and language skills, and comprehension. Twenty-six reproducible forms can be copied from the book or downloaded and printed from the companion website. Of special value, the website also features approximately 200 pages of additional printable assessment tools and instructional resources. Prior edition title: Early Intervention for Reading Difficulties.
New to This Edition
*Increased attention to whole-class instruction, teaching linguistically diverse students, writing development, and language-literacy connections.
*More examples of explicit instructional language, including sample scripts.
*Incorporates the latest research about early literacy development and difficulties.
*End-of-chapter "key points" and an end-of-book glossary.
*Additional online-only reproducible tools, including ISA lesson sheets.
Contents
Preface to the Third Edition
Introduction
I. Theoretical and Practical Understandings of Early Literacy Learning and Instruction
1. Early Literacy Learning and the Interactive Strategies Approach
2. Responsive Instruction
3. Motivation to Read and Write
II. Understanding Print and the English (Alphabetic) Writing System
4. Purposes, Concepts, and Conventions of Print
5. Phonemic Awareness
6. Letter Naming and Letter Formation
7. Letter-Sound (Grapheme-Phoneme) Relationships
8. The Alphabetic Principle and the Alphabetic Code: Early Development
9. Rimes and Word Families
10. The Alphabetic Principle and the Alphabetic Code: Later Development
11. Morphological Units and Multisyllabic Words
III. Word Learning
12. Strategic Word Solving, Word Identification, and Word Learning
13. High-Frequency Word Learning and Word Identification
IV. Meaning Construction
14. Text-Reading Fluency
15. Vocabulary and Oral Language Development
16. Comprehension and General Knowledge
V. Integration of the Goals: Putting It All Together
17. Small-Group Instruction
18. Revisiting and Concluding
Glossary
References
Index
