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Teaching Reading in Today's Elementary Schools, 12th Edition

Betty D. Roe, Sandra H. Smith, Nancy J. Kolodziej

  • Copyright 2019
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Teaching Reading in Today's Elementary Schools 12th Edition by Betty D. Roe/Sandra H. Smith/Nancy J. Kolodziej
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Overview

TEACHING READING IN TODAY'S ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS sets the standard for reading instruction to ensure that aspiring teachers are able to help students learn the mechanics of word recognition, how to comprehend what they read -- and enjoy the process. The book advocates a balanced approach to reading, presenting newer approaches with more traditional approaches that have proven value, such as phonics, vocabulary instruction, and strategies for literal and higher-order comprehension. Practices are featured, such as use of recent technologies for literacy learning, varying approaches with attention to dealing with the many types of diverse learners in today's classrooms, and use of close reading techniques with appropriate materials to enhance the learning experience. New chapters are devoted to diversity and fluency. Praxis, CCSS, and edTPA assistance is also incorporated.

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Meet the Authors

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Betty D. Roe

Betty Roe is Professor Emerita at Tennessee Technological University. She formerly was the Director of the Ph.D. in Exceptional Learning Program and Professor of Curriculum and Instruction. She earned her Ed.D. at the University of Tennessee in Curriculum and Instruction with Reading emphasis. She is the senior author of SECONDARY SCHOOL LITERACY INSTRUCTION, 10th Edition; INFORMAL READING INVENTORY, 8th Edition; and TEACHING READING IN TODAY'S ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, 12th Edition; all published by Cengage Learning. She is also senior author of TEACHING READING IN TODAY'S MIDDLE SCHOOLS; AN INTRODUCTION TO TEACHING THE LANGUAGE ARTS; INTEGRATING LANGUAGE ARTS THROUGH LITERATURE AND THEMATIC UNITS; TEACHING THROUGH STORIES: YOURS, MINE, AND THEIRS; and STUDENT TEACHING AND FIELD EXPERIENCES HANDBOOK, 7th Edition. She has experience teaching in the intermediate grades and tutoring first through twelfth graders in a reading clinic. She currently does workshops on the use of storytelling to meet standards across the curriculum -- in language arts and content areas. Throughout her career she has been active in the International Literacy Association and the Tennessee Reading Association.

Sandra H. Smith

Sandra Hope Huddleston Smith is a professor in the School of Humanities, Education, and the Arts at Cumberland University, where she serves as Director of the Special Education program. She taught 20 years in K–12 special education and elementary education classrooms before joining a full-time university faculty in 1996. She currently teaches courses in special education and literacy at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. She has co-authored TEACHING THROUGH STORIES: YOURS, MINE, AND THEIRS; TEACHING READING IN TODAY'S MIDDLE SCHOOLS; STUDENT TEACHING AND FIELD EXPERIENCES HANDBOOK (6th and 7th Editions); and TEACHING READING IN TODAY'S ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS (beginning with the 9th Edition). Professor Smith is also an active member of the International Literacy Association and Tennessee Reading Association.

Nancy J. Kolodziej

What's New

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  • A lively full-color design featuring color photographs and new graphic representations of core information makes reading easier and helps to highlight what's important for the student.
  • Numbered Learning Objectives, listed at the beginning of each chapter and correlated with main headings throughout the chapter, provide a framework for students as they read, helping them to locate key content and understand expected outcomes.
  • Professional Resource Downloads provide instructors and students with practical tools to use in their present and future classrooms. These resources include summaries of strategies and practices, checklists, sample questionnaires, activities, assessments, and other useful documents that are downloadable and often customizable. The Professional Resource Download label identifies these items throughout the text.
  • Content throughout the text is aligned with key standards, including updated information on standards that teachers are required to meet. Each chapter opens with a list of the standards -- International Reading Association Standards for Reading Professionals and Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy -- that will be addressed in the material that follows. A detailed correlation chart listing the standards coverage in each chapter appears on the inside front and back covers of the book.
  • The twelfth edition includes updated and expanded research and theory information, discussion of the latest technology for literacy learning, recent movements in literacy assessment and standards that must be met, and information about guided reading and close reading techniques with appropriate texts.
  • A new chapter on diversity (Chapter 3) helps prospective teachers meet the needs of today's diverse learners.
  • A new chapter on fluency (Chapter 7) addresses the fact that fluent readers tend to comprehend text more easily than those who must struggle with word identification.
  • New examples of student work support the book's discussion of how writing instruction affects literacy learning.
  • Praxis, CCSS, and edTPA assistance is provided throughout.
  • A new marginal icon for Research/Theory highlights the theory connections within chapters and helps prospective teachers understand the reasons for practices.

Features

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  • Marginal icons connect specific content to the core topics that are integral to the entire text. There are icons for Assessment, Diversity, Research/Theory, Technology, and Intervention/Struggling Readers.
  • Suggestions for supporting diverse learners, including English Language Learners, appear throughout the text, with many discussions highlighted by marginal icons.
  • "Anticipation/Reaction Guides" at the beginning of each chapter help students activate their background knowledge, provide purposes for reading the material, and offer opportunities for post-reading reinforcement of chapter concepts. They are available as
  • "Seeing It in Practice" presents vignettes of how actual classroom strategies are used, offering authentic, practical contexts for the strategies and materials discussed in the text.
  • "Putting It into Practice" provides model activities, lesson plans, and teaching suggestions that students can try during field experiences, in student teaching, or in their own classrooms.
  • "Time for Reflection," located at strategic points throughout each chapter, encourages readers to think about the subject matter and decide where they stand on debated issues.
  • "For Your Journal. . . " presents topics that students can write about in order to further their understanding of the ideas and methods presented in the chapter. ". . .And For Your Portfolio" presents ideas to include in a portfolio for assessment purposes.

Table of Contents

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1. The Reading Act.
2. Assessment and Intervention.
3. Understanding Diverse Literacy Needs.
4. Emergent Literacy.
5. Word Recognition.
6. Phonics.
7. Fluency.
8. Vocabulary.
9. Comprehension: Part 1.
10. Comprehension: Part 2.
11. Major Approaches and Materials for Reading Instruction.
12. Reading in the Content Areas.

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Literacy: Helping Students Construct Meaning

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A leading resource for K–8 literacy programs, this extremely popular reading methods text has a simple goal: to provide aspiring teachers with the tools to help every student learn to read and write. LITERACY: HELPING STUDENTS CONSTRUCT MEANING, 10th Edition has been completely reorganized to better meet the changing needs of college and university instructors; for instance, with early coverage of assessment in recognition of its foundational nature. This text continues to provide pre-service and in-service teachers with the information, strategies, and techniques they need to assist their students in becoming literate. It is distinguished in the field by its use of practical literacy lessons and authentic examples of children's literature, which clearly demonstrate how to teach reading and writing. The Common Core State Standards are also fully integrated throughout the text, and full-color children's stories (in excerpts or in their entirety) model extended literacy lessons.

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