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| Vacca Features | p. xvii |
| Preface | p. xxi |
| Knowledge and Beliefs About Reading | p. 1 |
| The Importance of Belief Systems | p. 3 |
| Different Beliefs, Different Instructional Decisions | p. 4 |
| Reading Instruction and Teachers Belief Systems | p. 7 |
| How Teachers Come to Know About Reading and Learning to Read | p. 11 |
| Constructing Personal Knowledge | p. 12 |
| Co... MORE | p. 12 |
| Constructing Professional Knowledge and Expertise | p. 13 |
| Cognitive Insights into Reading and Learning to Read | p. 16 |
| The Alphabetic Principle and Learning to Read | p. 16 |
| Schema Theory and Reading Comprehension | p. 18 |
| Metacognition and Learning | p. 19 |
| Self-Knowledge | p. 21 |
| Task Knowledge | p. 21 |
| Self-Monitoring | p. 21 |
| Reading from a Language Perspective | p. 22 |
| Psycholinguistics and Reading | p. 23 |
| Graphophonemic System | p. 23 |
| Syntactic System | p. 23 |
| Semantic System | p. 23 |
| Sociolinguistics and Reading | p. 24 |
| Models of Reading | p. 25 |
| Bottom-Up Models | p. 26 |
| Top-Down Models | p. 27 |
| Interactive Models | p. 28 |
| What About Struggling Readers and Teachers Knowledge and Beliefs About Reading? | p. 28 |
| Summary | p. 29 |
| Teacher Action Research | p. 29 |
| Related Web Sites | p. 30 |
| MyEducationLab | p. 31 |
| Approaches to Reading Instruction | p. 32 |
| Belief Systems and Approaches to Literacy Instruction | p. 35 |
| Beliefs About Reading Interview | p. 35 |
| Theoretical Orientation to Reading Profile | p. 38 |
| Curriculum Perspectives | p. 38 |
| Bottom-Up Curricula | p. 40 |
| Readers And Textbooks | p. 40 |
| The First-Grade Studies | p. 41 |
| Top-Down Curricula | p. 41 |
| Some Principles Underlying Top-Down Practices | p. 41 |
| Classroom Conditions For Learning | p. 43 |
| Instructional Approaches | p. 43 |
| The Basal Reading Approach | p. 43 |
| The Language-Experience Approach | p. 45 |
| Integrated Language Arts | p. 46 |
| Literature-Based Instruction | p. 46 |
| Technology-Based Instruction | p. 47 |
| Approaches and Strategies in Comprehensive Instruction | p. 48 |
| What About Struggling Readers and Approaches to Literacy Instruction? | p. 53 |
| Summary | p. 53 |
| Teacher Action Research | p. 54 |
| Related Web Sites | p. 54 |
| MyEducationLab | p. 55 |
| Meeting the Literacy Needs of Diverse Learners | p. 56 |
| The Complexity of Diversity in Literacy Classrooms | p. 59 |
| Linguistic Diversity in Literacy Classrooms | p. 60 |
| Instructional Beliefs About Linguistic Diversity | p. 61 |
| Instructional Principles for Students Speaking Diverse Languages and Dialects | p. 63 |
| Instructional Strategies for Students Speaking Diverse Languages | p. 64 |
| Sheltered English Adaptations | p. 66 |
| Instructional Conversations | p. 66 |
| Response Protocol | p. 66 |
| Reading And Writing Practices | p. 68 |
| Content Area Practices | p. 69 |
| Thematic Teaching | p. 69 |
| Dialects and Reading Strategies | p. 70 |
| Background Knowledge And Motivation | p. 70 |
| Culturally Relevant Materials And Motivation | p. 70 |
| Dialectical Miscues | p. 71 |
| Using Language Experience | p. 71 |
| Cultural Diversity in Literacy Classrooms | p. 71 |
| Instructional Beliefs About Cultural Diversity | p. 72 |
| Instructional Principles for Students from Diverse Cultures | p. 72 |
| Instructional Strategies for Culturally Diverse Students | p. 74 |
| Consider Yourself And Your Own Beliefs And Experiences With Other Cultures | p. 74 |
| Determining Cultural Expectations | p. 74 |
| Validating Each Child S Experience | p. 75 |
| Fostering Ethnic, National, And Global Ident | |
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