Creating Literacy Instruction for All Students (8th Edition)
With its thorough discussion of  Common Core State Standards and Response to Intervention and their implications for classroom teachers . . . its strong emphasis on helping struggling readers and writers and English language learners . . . its incisive look at distinguished author Tom Gunning’s extensive, hands-on work with helping all students become college and career ready . . . and its thorough coverage of how to construct and implement highly effective early reading, word attack, comprehension, and writing  programs,Creating Literacy Instruction for All Studentshas become a well-respected, best-selling, widely-used resource in the field. Aspiring and practicing professionals alike get the help they need to become highly effective teachers who can accomplish the most for their students by applying the book’s numerous research-based teaching strategies, lesson plans, and step-by-step guidance for teaching reading and writing. Now made even more effective and useful in the new Eighth Edition! NEW!A focus on Common Core State Standardswith suggestions for implementation and expanded discussions of reading and writing strategies and readability measurement advocated by Common Core Standards. NEW!An emphasis on effective steps for implementingResponse to Intervention. NEW!A highly useful gradedAcademic Word List, especially adapted for use with elementary and middle school students. NEW!Step-by-step instructions for helping struggling readersincluding coverage of three powerful new research-based teaching techniques: indexing, mystery passages, and WIRC thinksheets. NEW! Landmark researchthat describes and highlights today’s most effective literacy instructional practices, and provides information on the average percentile gains achieved when these practices are instituted.