Description
Comprehensive yet succinct and readable, Literacy in Grades 4-8, Third Edition offers a wealth of practical ideas to help preservice and practicing teachers create a balanced and comprehensive literacy program while exploring the core topics and issues of literacy in grades 4 through 8. It addresses teaching to standards; differentiating instruction for readers and writers; motivating students; using assessment to inform instruction; integrating technology into the classroom; working with English learners and struggling readers; and connecting with caregivers. Selected classroom strategies, procedures, and activities represent the most effective practices according to research and the many outstanding classroom teachers who were observed and interviewed for the book.
The Third Edition includes added material connecting the Common Core State Standards to the instruction and assessment of literacy skills; a combined word study and vocabulary chapter to help readers integrate these important topics in their teaching; more on technology, including comprehension of multimodal texts, enhancing writing instruction with technology tools, and teaching activities with an added technology component; added discussion of teacher techniques during text discussions, strategic moves that help students become more strategic readers.
Key features: In the Classroom vignettes; more than 50 activities,some with a technology component; questions for journal writing and for projects and field-based activities; troubleshooting sections offering alternative suggestions and activities for those middle-grade students who may find a particular literacy focus challenging.
Table of Contents
One: A Comprehensive Literacy Program for Grades 4–8; Two: Assessment of Progress in Literacy; Three: Fostering Oral Language; Four: Vocabulary Instruction; Five: Reading Comprehension; Six: Writing Instruction; Seven: Literacy in the Content Areas; Eight: Fluency; Nine: Differentiating Instruction for Diverse Classrooms; Ten: Fostering Literacy in and Beyond the Classroom; Eleven: Connecting School and Home; Twelve: Literacy in Grades 4–8
