Title: Best Practices in Early Literacy Instruction
Description: Bringing together prominent scholars, this book shows how 21st-century research and theory can inform everyday instructional practices in early childhood classrooms (PreK-3). Coverage includes foundational topics such as alphabet learning, phonological awareness, oral language development, and learning to write, as well as cutting-edge topics such as digital literacy, informational texts, and response to intervention. Every chapter features guiding questions; an overview of ideas and findings on the topic at hand; specific suggestions for improving instruction, assessment, and/or the classroom environment; and an engrossing example of the practices in action.
Subjects: Language arts, Reading comprehension, Literacy, Language arts (Early childhood), Research, Reading (Early childhood), LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Reading Skills, EDUCATION / Preschool & Kindergarten, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy, EDUCATION / Elementary