Full Description
The information contained in this text covers literacy instruction in kindergarten, primary grades, middle school, and secondary school. It gives the background on the developmental aspects of all attributes needed for successful reading. It presents a balanced body of information for instruction between wholistic approaches and traditional approaches for the total literacy curriculum. This book includes the complete developmental aspects of skills necessary for competence in all literacy tasks from birth to adolescent literacy, the need for availability for teachers to assess the progress of all these skills as they are presented in a wholistic fashion on a regular basis, the criteria of how decisions are made for remedial reading instruction, the interface of special education considerations for students experiencing literacy deficits, approaches for adolescent literacy programs, and extensive information on teaching English language learners.
Contents
List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: LEA and the Science of Literacy Instruction; Chapter 1 Reading Development as Part of Literacy Development; Chapter 2 Language Development ; Chapter 3 The Development of Early Skills for Literacy Proficiency; Chapter 4 Development of Motor Ability for Writing; Chapter 5 Understanding Spelling; Chapter 6 Literacy Instruction in the Primary Grades; Chapter 7 Literacy Strategies for the Secondary School; Chapter 8 Reading Deficits and the Interface with Special Education; Chapter 9 Remediation of Mild to Moderate Reading Deficits; Chapter 10 Remediation of More Severe Deficits in Reading Ability; Chapter 11 The Counterparts of Written Expression: Comprehension, Vocabulary Memory, Word Retrieval, and Dysnomia; Chapter 12 Written Expression; Chapter 13 Teaching English Language Learners; Chapter 14 Technology Ideas; References; Appendices; Index
