language arts (early childhood)

Addresses misunderstandings about guided reading instruction, discussing the role of the teacher, instructional reading level, balanced instruction, text gradients, integrated processing, and assessment, with twenty-seven strategies for working through problems.

Explains interactive writing to teachers and how to implement it into classrooms, kindergarten through second grade.

Contains twenty-five art projects with companion poems and lessons designed to build phonemic awareness, oral language, eary writing, and more.

Examines the home literacy activities that enable children to learn phonics naturally, and looks at classroom reading and writing activities that support the learning of phonics, with ideas and lessons.

Offers guidance to teachers on how to develop literacy programs for students in kindergarten through third grade, focusing on the transitions that occur as children become more competent readers and writers. Includes classroom examples.

Presents a nontraditional approach to early literacy intervention, discussing cognitive processes in proficient children and strategies for helping low-achieving children develop reading skill and independence.