New 2007! Just Published! Help your students become reflective thinkers by engaging them with text.
Reflective Literacy Practices in an Age of Standards:
Engaging K-8 Learners
Richard Sinatra, Brett Elizabeth Blake, Francine Guastello, and Joanne Robertson, all at St. John's University, Staten Island, NY
This guide helps you engage your students with a text from the early years through junior high by integrating viewing, listening, speaking, reading, writing, and visual representation. The ideal blend of theory and practice, each chapter examines major literacy theories and shows how to implement them in the classroom. Interactive, comprehensive, and standards-based, the guide includes sample lessons as models to use when implementing central literacy concepts, student work to reinforce the material presented in each chapter, Anticipation Guides before and after each chapter, reproducible forms, and more.
"The book is well written and gives an excellent overview of reading strategies, theories, and classroom practices . . . . It is comprehensive, easy to read, thorough with its topics, and structured in a manner to help the reader get the most out of it."
— Marsha Beard, Assistant Superintendent of Instruction, USD 266, Maize
2007 Just Published Paperbound 320pp
ISBN: 1-929024-94-0 978-1-929024-94-0 Order #320 $44.95
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New 2003! Practical advice for assisting students in the understanding, reading, and writing of words for successful literacy development!
Word Recognition and Vocabulary Development Strategies for Literacy Success
Richard Sinatra, St. Johns University
Here you see how children and youth learn words in the oral and written languages - and how teachers can best assist learners in the understanding, reading, and writing of words for successful literacy development. In it you learn the differing rationales for using sound/symbol or phonics approaches in word learning, for using whole word recognition techniques in making meaning associations for words known in the oral language, and for learning the meanings and how to use word parts or morphemes to understand and form new words. You also see how the language of talk and of children's authors can act as the vehicles for the words children learn to read and understand.
- Complete convergence on the topics of word recognition and vocabulary development for differing ability levels of students.
- Explanations of various rationales and procedures for building the reading and understanding of words.
- Detailed strategy implementation steps, complete with case studies and illustrations of children's work.
2003 Available in April 128pp est. Paperbound ISBN 1-929024-59-2 (K-6) Order #3027 $23.95
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