Beginning Reading - A Balanced Approach to Literacy Instruction in First Three Years of

List of contents

Section 1: Who needs another book on reading instruction?

Introduction

1. Speaking and reading

Section 2: Starting the first school year

2. A balanced literacy program: theory and practice

3. Listening comprehension

4. Phonological awareness

Section 3: The first year at school

5. The formal literacy program: Theory

6. The formal literacy program: Rationale and outline

7. Sound/symbol correspondence

8. Phonemic awareness

9. Decodable texts, word families and text features

10. Spelling

Section 4: The second year at school

11. Literary texts

12. Factual and procedural texts

13. Word building and morphological awareness

14. Fluency and reading comprehension acquisition

Section 5: The third year at school

15. Listening comprehension

16. Reading comprehension and creative writing

Section 6: Assessment and intervention

17. Assessment

Summary

A systematic, research-based guide to teaching reading in the first three years of school. It is designed to ensure that teachers are able to work with 'at risk' or 'reluctant' readers as effectively as those children for whom reading seems to come naturally.

Product details

• Authors: Yola Center, Center Yola
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9780367717520
• ISBN: 978-0-367-71752-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Teacher & Student Mentoring, Teaching of a specific subject, Primary & middle schools, Educational: English language: reading & writing skills, Primary and middle schools, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Reading & Phonics, EDUCATION / Teaching / General