Beginning Reading A Balanced Approach to Teaching Reading during the First Three Years at School

by Center, Yola

• ISBN13: 9780826488756
• ISBN10: 0826488757
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-21
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

An extremely engaging and well-researched guide to teaching children to read in the first three years.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgements	viii
How to use this book	xi
Section 1 Who needs another book on reading instruction?	1	(12)
Introduction	2	(59)
1 Speaking and reading	5	(8)
Section 2 Starting the first school year	13	(48)
2 A balanced literacy program: Theory and practice	15	(6)
3 Listening comprehension	21	(13)
4 Phonological awareness	34	(27)
Section 3 The first year at school	61	(58)
5 The formal literacy program: Theory	63	(11)
6 The formal literacy program: Rationale and outline	74	(7)
7 Sound/symbol correspondence	81	(10)
8 Phonemic awareness	91	(9)
9 Decodable texts, word families and text features	100	(7)
10 Spelling	107	(9)
Conclusion to the first year at school	116	(3)
Section 4 The second year at school	119	(58)
11 Literary texts	121	(15)
12 Factual and procedural texts	136	(11)
13 Word building and morphological awareness	147	(16)
14 Beginning fluency and reading comprehension	163	(12)
Conclusion to the second year at school	175	(2)
Section 5 The third year at school	177	(42)
15 Listening comprehension	179	(22)
16 Reading comprehension and creative writing	201	(18)
Section 6 Assessment and intervention	219	(27)
17 Assessment and intervention	221	(16)
18 Individual intervention: Research and practice	237	(9)
Afterword	246	(3)
Appendices	249	(17)
Glossary	266	(2)
References	268	(18)
Index	286