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McCarthy, JoEllen – Stenhouse Publishers, 2020
"Layers of Learning" explores read-aloud strategies designed to enhance your reading and writing standards by capitalizing on the way literature can impact caring communities. With over 200 picture-book suggestions, author JoEllen McCarthy introduces the Heartprint Framework, which demonstrates how you can layer literacy and life lessons…
Descriptors: Reading Aloud to Others, Literacy Education, Caring, Teaching Methods
Hall, Joan Kelly, Ed.; Looney, Stephen Daniel, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2019
The chapters in this volume build on a growing body of ethnomethodological conversation analytic research on teaching in order to enhance our empirical understandings of teaching as embodied, contingent and jointly achieved with students in the complex management of various courses of action and larger instructional projects. Together, the…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Teachers, Reading Aloud to Others
Bouzoukis, Carol E. – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2011
iPads, iPhones, Notebooks, X-Boxes, PlayStations, Televisions, Computers. They've found their way into every corner of our lives. Add to that, the pressures of the modern education with standardized tests and crowded classrooms, and it seems that our children have lost the simplicity of childhood. Are our children losing their imagination, too?…
Descriptors: Imagination, Play, Guides, Self Esteem
Justice, Laura M.; Sofka, Amy E. – Guilford Publications, 2010
Preschool teachers and early childhood professionals know that storybook reading is important, but they may not know how to maximize its benefits for later reading achievement. This indispensable guide presents research-based techniques for using reading aloud to intentionally and systematically build children's knowledge of print. Simple yet…
Descriptors: Reading Aloud to Others, Reading Achievement, Preschool Teachers, Emergent Literacy
Lubliner, Shira I.; Scott, Judith A. – Corwin, 2008
This unique book emphasizes the importance of supporting students' academic development with targeted vocabulary instruction that includes a wide range of language forms and words. The authors provide sound theory and practical techniques to help teachers bridge the achievement gap by strengthening vocabulary, deepening literacy skills, and…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Language Patterns, Reading Instruction, Literacy Education
Vasinda, Sheri, Ed.; Szabo, Susan, Ed.; Johnson, Robin D., Ed. – Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers, 2015
The theme for the 58th annual conference of the Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers (ALER) was Bridging Cultures Through Literacy. In the first section of the Yearbook, Parker Fawson's presidential address captures the unique nature of ALER and its role in his professional development, and then moved beyond to capture the changing…
Descriptors: Literacy, Literacy Education, Reading Comprehension, Common Core State Standards
Anderson, Dee – ALA Editions, 2008
Because they're quick and fun to read, riddles can "hook" even reluctant readers and keep them coming back for more. Riddles also improve vocabulary, comprehension, and oral reading; enhance deductive and inductive thinking skills; and promote libraries as places for fun. Drawing on her work with children in schools and public libraries, Dee…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Oral Reading, Public Libraries, Library Skills
Campbell-Rush, Peggy – Crystal Springs Books, 2007
In this book, author Peggy Campbell-Rush shares the strategies she relies on to teach young students not only how to read and write, but also to love to read and write. Teachers will find close to 100 tips, ideas, and activities that they can implement immediately, including: the dos and don'ts for reading aloud; putting new twists on tedious…
Descriptors: Writing Workshops, Emergent Literacy, Reading Instruction, Writing Instruction
Barton, Bob – 1986
Recognizing that exposure to storytelling and reading aloud enhance children's language skills and their enjoyment of literature, this book provides a rationale and suggestions for storytelling and reading aloud both in and beyond the classroom. The first chapter explores various nursery rhymes from around the world, and how this oral tradition…
Descriptors: Characterization, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition, Literature Appreciation
Rothlein, Liz; Christman, Terri – 1989
This guide provides activities for use with 15 popular children's books. Basic information is provided for each book--author, illustrator, publisher, publication date, grade level, and a list of other works by the same author. Each section includes a summary of the book, an introduction to use when presenting the book to children, key vocabulary…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Grade 1, Grade 2
Pollard, Rebecca S. – Western Publishing House, 1891
This Manual provides the foundation for a reading and spelling course which avoids use of the phonic method. Instead of teaching the word as a whole and afterward subjecting it to phonic analysis, this Synthetic Method takes the sounds of the letters for the starting point, and with these sounds lay a foundation firm and broad, upon which is built…
Descriptors: Spelling, Teaching Methods, Phonics, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
Ray, Katie Wood – 1999
Drawing on stories from classrooms, examples of student writing, and illustrations, this book explains in practical terms the theoretical underpinnings of how elementary school students learn to write from their reading. Beginning with the concepts that underlie how writing teachers teach students to write by studying other writers, it goes on to…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Childrens Writing, Elementary Education, Reading Aloud to Others
Pinnell, Gay Su; Fountas, Irene C. – Heinemann, 2007
The authors advocate that a high-quality curriculum is an important first step toward good teaching and successful learning. Good curriculum comes from knowing what students can do, can almost do, and need to learn how to do as readers, writers, and language users. In this book, the authors combine their experience and learning in literacy…
Descriptors: Literacy, Reading Instruction, Elementary Education, Student Behavior
Applegate, Mauree – 1978
Elementary school students can learn to write creatively if the teacher offers stimulation through informative and enriching experiences and provides daily opportunities for writing experiences. Enrichment can involve books, field trips, radio, television, guest speakers, maps, and sense experiences--anything that broadens the knowledge of the…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Cognitive Development, Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing
Rief, Sandra F.; Heimburge, Julie A. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2007
This book offers teachers a handbook for teaching literacy to diverse students in grades 3-8. The balanced literacy method combines the best practices of phonics and other skill-based language instruction with the holistic, literature-based approach in order to help teach reading, writing, and speaking in a clear and approachable format. This…
Descriptors: Writing Difficulties, Units of Study, Literacy, Student Diversity
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