Teaching Reading Pre-K to Grade 3 w/CD-ROM

This book broadens the scope of teaching and assessment strategies critical for addressing a wide range of abilities of children in Pre-K to Grade 3. This edition provides teachers with research-based, practical teaching and assessment strategies to support the reading development of all children in their classrooms.  The book has a Question & Answer approach. Chapters 1-7 begin with a series of questions a in-service or pre-service teacher might ask. These questions are answered with research and expert opinion to help establish the importance of the major areas presented in the chapters.Unique Features: "Differentiating Reading Instruction" helps teachers to implement ideas into daily classroom instruction. Special emphasis on vocabulary, information text and strategic reading. Expanded teaching strategies for core area reading. Strategies, activities, and assessments. A series of teaching strategies and activities are provided for each of the major area. Assessment and teaching strategies are linked within the chapters. "Tips for English Language Learners" offers ideas throughout every chapter. Content Area Examples "Home School Connections" are 20 prepared letters in English and Spanish to link and reinforce important skills and strategies you teach at school with home. Includes a CD with each book that features: Bonus Chapter for Writing and Spelling Over 120 reproducible pages in PDF format. Including: Activity Record Sheets, Activity Pages, Home-School Connections Letters.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 - Attitudes, Interests, and Oral Language 1 Overview 1 1.1: Desire to Read 3 Teaching Strategy 1: Morning Message 3 Teaching Strategy 2: Shared Reading 4 Teaching Strategy 3: Favorite Book Show and Tell 5 Ideas and Activities 8 Home-School Connections 11 Selected Resources 12 1.2: Background Knowledge 13 Teaching Strategy 1: Object Exploration 13 Teaching Strategy 2: Book Boxes 14 Teaching Strategy 3: Knowledge Chart 15 Teaching Strategy 4: Brainstorming 16 Teaching Strategy 5: Predicting with Pictures 17 Ideas and Activities 18 Home-School Connections 21 Selected Resources 22 1.3: Oral Language 23 Teaching Strategy 1: Show and Tell-Question-Connection 23 Teaching Strategy 2: Expand-a- Sentence 24 Teaching Strategy 3: Progressive Storytelling 25 Ideas and Activities 26 Home-School Connections 27 Selected Resources 28 1.4: Assessments of Interests and Attitudes Toward Reading 29 Assessment Strategy 1: Interviews about Reading 30 Assessment Strategy 2: News about Me 35 Assessment Strategy 3: Elementary Reading Attitude Survey 38 Chapter 2 - Literacy Knowledge 49 Overview 49 2.1: Print Concepts 52 Teaching Strategy 1: Shared Reading 52 Teaching Strategy 2: Language Experience Approach (LEA) 54 Teaching Strategy 3: Learning about Print through Writing 55 Teaching Strategy 4: What Can You Show Us? 56 Ideas and Activities 57 Home-School Connections 59 Selected Resources 60 2.2: Sense of Story 61 Teaching Strategy 1: Simple Story Elements 61 Teaching Strategy 2: Plot Relationships Chart 62 Teaching Strategy 3: Story Star 65 Teaching Strategy 4: Story Faces 67 Ideas and Activities 70 Home-School Connections 71 Selected Resources 72 2.3: Informational Text Structures 73 Teaching Strategy 1: Graphic Organizers 73 Teaching Strategy 2: Expository Frames 77 Teaching Strategy 3: Scrambled Text 78 Teaching Strategy 4: Expository Writing 79 Ideas and Activities 82 Home-School Connections 83 Selected Resources 84 2.4: Assessments of Literacy Knowledge 85 Assessment Strategy 1: Print Concepts 86 Assessment Strategy 2: Retelling a Story 119 Assessment Strategy 3: Informational Text Retelling 121 Chapter 3 - Letters and Sounds 125 Overview 125 3.1: Alphabet Knowledge 128 Teaching Strategy 1: Alphabet Song 128 Teaching Strategy 2: Using Alphabet Books 129 Teaching Strategy 3: Letter Actions 130 Teaching Strategy 4: Identifying Letters 131 Ideas and Activities 132 Home-School Connections 133 Selected Resources 134 3.2: Phonemic Awareness 136 Teaching Strategy 1: I Spy Rhymes 137 Teaching Strategy 2: First Sounds 137 Teaching Strategy 3: Sound Boxes 142 Teaching Strategy 4: Put It Together 143 Teaching Strategy 5: Break and Make 146 Ideas and Activities 147 Home-School Connections 151 Selected Resources 152 3.3: Phonics 154 Teaching Strategy 1: Explicit Phonics 155 Teaching Strategy 2: Making Words 157 Teaching Strategy 3: Whole-Part-Whole Phonics 158 Teaching Strategy 4: Phonics in Context 159 Ideas and Activities 160 Home-School Connections 164 Selected Resources 165 3.4: Assessments of Alphabet Knowledge, Phonemic Awareness, and Phonics 167 Assessment Strategy 1: Alphabet Knowledge 168 Assessment Strategy 2: Rhyme Detection 174 Assessment Strategy 3: Phoneme Segmentation 177 Assessment Strategy 4: Phoneme Deletion and Substitution 180 Assessment Strategy 5: Auditory Discrimination 184 Assessment Strategy 6: Phonics: Consonants 187 Assessment Strategy 7: Decoding 199 Chapter 4 - Fluency and Automaticity 207 Overview 207 4.1: Sight Words 209 Teaching Strategy 1: Explicit Instruction 210 Teaching Strategy 2: Pattern Books 213 Teaching Strategy 3: Associative Learning 214 Teaching Strategy 4: Word Wall 215 Ideas and Activities 216 Home-School Connections 218 Selected Resources 221 4.2: Fluency 222 Teaching Strategy 1: Teacher-Assisted Reading 222 Teaching Strategy 2: Structured Repeated Readings 223 Teaching Strategy 3: Choral Reading 227 Teaching Strategy 4: Radio Reading 228 Teaching Strategy 5: Multipaired Simultaneous Oral Reading 228 Ideas and Activities 230 Home-School Connections 232 Selected Resources 233 4.3: Cross-Checking 234 Teaching Strategy 1: Making Sense 235 Teaching Strategy 2: Predict-Sample-Confirm 236 Teaching Strategy 3: Word Detective 237 Teaching Strategy 4: Cue Questioning 239 Ideas and Activities 241 Home-School Connections 242 Selected Resources 243 4.4: Assessments of Sight Words, Fluency, and Cross-Checking 245 Assessment Strategy 1: Basic Sight Vocabulary 246 Assessment Strategy 2: Common Nouns 252 Assessment Strategy 3: Words Per Minute 258 Assessment Strategy 4: Fluency Scale Checklist 262 Assessment Strategy 5: Oral Reading Miscue Analysis 266 Chapter 5 - Vocabulary and Comprehension 269 Overview 269 5.1: Meaning Vocabulary 271 Teaching Strategy 1: Preview in Context 271 Teaching Strategy 2: Vocabulary Connections 272 Teaching Strategy 3: Word Frames 273 Teaching Strategy 4: Four-Square Vocabulary Grids 274 Ideas and Activities 277 Home-School Connections 278 Selected Resources 279 5.2: Reading Comprehension 280 Teaching Strategy 1: Think Aloud 281 Teaching Strategy 2: Directed ReadingETHThinking Activity (DR-TA) 283 Teaching Strategy 3: Story Frame 284 Teaching Strategy 4: Idea-Mapping 286 Teaching Strategy 5: Making Text Connections 288 Ideas and Activities 291 Home-School Connections 296 Selected Resources 297 5.3: Monitoring Reading 298 Teaching Strategy 1: Critter 298 Teaching Strategy 2: Monitoring Think-Along 300 Teaching Strategy 3: Pause- Think-Retell 301 Teaching Strategy 4: Monitoring Logs 302 Ideas and Activities 304 Home-School Connections 306 Selected Resources 308 5.4: Assessments of Reading Comprehension and Monitoring Reading 309 Assessment Strategy 1: Caption Reading 310 Assessment Strategy 2: Passage Reading 317 Assessment Strategy 3: Retelling 336 Assessment Strategy 4: Monitoring Strategies Checklist 339 Chapter 6 - Writing and Spelling 341 Overview 341 6.1: Responding to Literature 344 Teaching Strategy 1: Language Charts 344 Teaching Strategy 2: Getting the Feeling 345 Teaching Strategy 3: Responding to Plot 348 Teaching Strategy 4: Discovering the Message 350 Ideas and Activities 351 Home-School Connections 352 Selected Resources 353 6.2: Writing 354 Teaching Strategy 1: Shared Writing 354 Teaching Strategy 2: Text Tapping 355 Teaching Strategy 3: Writing from Songs 356 Teaching Strategy 4: Parent-Recommended Topics 357 Teaching Strategy 5: Let Me Tell You About ... 359 Ideas and Activities 361 Home-School Connections 364 Selected Resources 365 6.3: Spelling 366 Teaching Strategy 1: Have-a-Go 366 Teaching Strategy 2: Directed Spelling Thinking Activity (DSTA) 369 Teaching Strategy 3: Spelling Workshop 370 Teaching Strategy 4: That Reminds Me ... 370 Ideas and Activities 372 Home-School Connections 374 Selected Resources 375 6.4: Assessments of Writing and Spelling 377 Assessment Strategy 1: Writing 379 Assessment Strategy 2: Writing Rubrics 381 Assessment Strategy 3: Writing Observational Checklist 387 Assessment Strategy 4: Developmental Spelling 389 Appendices 393 Appendix A: Professional Organizations and Agencies 394 Appendix B: Word Families 395 References 405 Index 411