Pinnell, Gay Su

Presents a comprehensive curriculum program designed to help teachers of kindergarten through second grade aid in their students' development as readers, writers, and language users, with resources for planning, assessment, evaluation, discussion, and trouble shooting.

A combination assessment tool and guide for teaching identifies the literacy goals appropriate to grades PreK-eight and offers tools to help analyze students' strengths and identify areas needing teaching support.

Explains how to combine literacy instruction with activities that appeal to a child's natural curiosity and desire to play, and provides familiar children's songs, rhymes, poems, and related activities; theme-based text sets and book lists; inquiry projects; and thirty-five basic lesson plans.