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Teaching Children to Read has always been well known for its comprehensive look at literacy instruction. This streamlined edition of that text has been developed to provide readers a brief version that offers essential information about reading instruction based on research that aligns with No Child Left Behind directives. The focus of this book is how to teach phonemic awareness, phonics, comprehension, vocabulary, fluency, and ongoing classroom assessment. Special features include: bull; bull;A theory chapter to ground literacy background knowledge. bull;An infusion of the most current research available to inform practice and all five No Child Left Behind initiatives regarding phonemic awareness, phonics, comprehension, vocabulary, and fluency. bull;A newly organized assessment chapter presenting four purposes of assessment as identified by Reading First legislation, including outcome assessment; screening instruments; diagnostic assessment tools; and ongoing, progress-monitoring assessments.

Theoretical Roots of Reading Instruction	p. 2
Phonemic Awareness and Phonics Instruction	p. 28
Increasing Vocabulary and Word Knowledge	p. 60
Improving Reading Comprehension	p. 94
Developing Reading Fluency	p. 136
Materials and Programs for Literacy Instruction: Basals and Beyond	p. 160
Assessing Literacy Learning	p. 202
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The Essentials of Teaching Children to Readis a concise, yet comprehensive, compilation of the best documented scientifically based reading research (SBRR) on the five key areas of reading development: phonological and phonemic awareness, phonics instruction, reading comprehension, reading fluency, and vocabulary development. This book is primarily designed to be a tool for practicing teachers and a resource for improving daily reading instruction. In these pages, the reader will discover the essentials of proven classroom strategies backed up in large measure by direct experience and research conducted by the authors themselves in classrooms around the country-urban, rural, and suburban. In other words, we have walked in the shoes of reading teachers. HOW ISTHE ESSENTIALS OF TEACHING CHILDREN TO READORGANIZED? Teachers accustomed to lengthy texts on reading instruction in college courses will be pleasantly surprised.The Essentials of Teaching Children to Readis a "lite" text designed for real-world teachers dealing with the demands of real-world classrooms. At every turn, we have constructed a book that respects your time by providing only the critical information for improving reading instruction and nothing more. We begin with the fundamentals of organizing our thinking about comprehensive reading instruction, followed by specifics on scientifically based reading research (SBRR) in the five critical areas of reading instruction, then show you how to organize for instruction. We also include summaries along the way on national standards in reading instruction as described by the most influential organizations across America so that we are all "speaking the same language." The following is a brief description of the chapters contained in The Essentials of Teaching Children to Read. Introduction: A Nation Refocusing Its Attention on Reading--The book begins with an introductory narrative describing the current scene in America and the need for a comprehensive approach to reading instruction. We summarize the rationale and need for the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and the Reading First legislation that made progress possible. We argue for, among other things, scientifically-based instructional approaches based on clear data from the classroom as well as consistency and high quality in delivery so that no child is left behind. In sum, we believe in insuring that every classroom should be as good as our best. Chapter 1:Theoretical Roots of Reading Instruction--We believe that there is nothing so practical as a good theory. Here we "cut to the chase" on theories of how children learn to read and the implications for teachers, support personnel and, yes, families. This chapter helps you to become grounded in the essential principles of learning and how they relate to daily decision making about the "just right" strategies for your students. Chapter 2:Phonemic Awareness and Phonics Instruction--With Chapter 2, we begin a careful study of the "Big Five" in reading instruction with a summary of scientifically based reading research (SBRR) in two key areas that lead to automaticity in decoding. This chapter begins with a look at research on early reading development and the seminal work titledThe Report of the National Reading Panelas well as other key research findings. This is must-know information for all reading teachers. Next comes a presentation of the scope and sequence of benchmark skills to be learned in phonemic awareness, the alphabetic principle, and phonics. As with all later chapters, we equip the reader with "nuts and bolts" explanations of research-proven strategies to teach each and every benchmark skill on the pathway to literacy. Chapter 3:Increasing Vocabulary and Word Knowledge--Reading is a language-sharing activity that is heavily dependent on vocabul

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Essentials of Teaching Children to Read : What Every Teacher Needs to Know

Essentials of Teaching Children to Read : What Every Teacher Needs to Know

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