How to Reach and Teach All Children Through Balanced Literacy offers you 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 you teach reading, writing, and speaking in a clear and approachable format. This dynamic resource offers an easily accessible research-based approach to balanced literacy that is grounded in the innovative ideas developed by authors Sandra F. Rief and Julie A. Heimburge. The book includes detailed descriptions of what a balanced literacy classroom looks like and shows how to create a program from the ground up or give your existing program a boost. The book can be used across content areas and is filled with reproducible worksheets, activities, and other handy classroom tools.
Some topics covered include: * Shared book experiences * Reading aloud * Oral language and vocabulary development * Guided reading for comprehension * Modeled writing * Reading and writing conferences * Book clubs * Content area reading and writing * Ongoing assessments * Enhancing literacy through technology
- ISBN10 0787988057
- ISBN13 9780787988050
- Publish Date 31 August 2007
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country US
- Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Imprint Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 352
- Language English