literacy

The author, a psychologist, explains why teaching children to read with phonics, the whole language method, or some combination of the two does not work and how reading should be taught through hearing the sounds of language and a working knowledge of the spelling code.

Harry sits on the porch with Mr. George Baker, an African American who is one hundred years old but can still dance and play the drums, waiting for the school bus that will take them both to the class where they are learning to read.

Provides strategies and activities to help teachers introduce technology into their curriculum.

Sweetness, one of eight orphans living with a man who is an unconventional housekeeper, learns to read and writes an important letter to improve their situation.

Includes reproducible patterns and directions for making twenty-five mini-books, appropriate for kindergarten through third grade, covering special days, plants and animals, and folk and fairy tales, with five blank book patterns in which students may put their own words and pictures.

A literacy text for pre-service and in-service teachers, providing background on how literacy develops, featuring an introduction to the Balanced Beginning Literacy Program, and discussing the activation of prior knowledge, instruction methods, vocabulary, the construction of meaning, writing, and other topics.

A young bear who is fascinated by the mysterious marks he sees on paper finds a friend when a kind woman reads to him.