Strategies and lessons for improving basic early literacy skills /

Designed for students of all levels, this hands-on guide offers research-proven strategies and structured lessons to teach essential skills for literacy success in Grades K-3.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Algozzine, Robert (Author), Marr, Mary Beth (Author), McClanahan, Tina (Author), Barnes, Emme (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, CA : Corwin Press, 2008.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9781452298009
1452298009
9781452294889
1452294887
9781412952859
1412952859
9781412952866
1412952867
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Authors
  • Chapter 1
  • Introduction
  • Organizational Framework
  • Using Assessment to Inform Instruction
  • Incorporating Basic Early Literacy Skills (BELS) Into the Literacy Block
  • Whole Class Instruction/Independent Work Time
  • Guided Reading/Literacy Center/Skill Group Instruction
  • Whole Class Instruction/Four Blocks Reading Model
  • Teaching Effectively
  • Letter Naming Fluency Content Preview
  • Initial Sound Fluency Content Preview
  • Phoneme Segmentation Fluency Content Preview
  • Nonsense Word Fluency Content PreviewOral Reading Fluency Content Preview
  • Teaching Early Literacy Skills
  • Early Literacy Instruction in Perspective
  • Building Early Literacy Skills
  • Chapter 2
  • Letter Naming Fluency
  • Activity 1: Distinguishing between Letters and Non-Letters
  • Transparency 1: Letter Sort
  • Handout 1: Letters
  • Activity 2a: Distinguishing Letter Forms (Tall Letters)
  • Handout 2a: Tall Letters
  • Activity 2b: Distinguishing Letter Forms (Short Circular Letters)
  • Handout 2b: Short Circular Letters
  • Activity 2c: Distinguishing Letter Forms (Short Stick Letters)Handout 2c: Short Stick Letters
  • Activity 2d: Distinguishing Letter Forms (Short Hump Letters)
  • Handout 2d: Short Hump Letters
  • Activity 2e: Distinguishing Letter Forms (Hanging Letters)
  • Handout 2e: Hanging Letters
  • Activity 3: Distinguishing Same and Different Letters
  • Handout 3a: Letters Revisited
  • Handout 3b: Letter Template 1: Century Gothic
  • Handout 3c: Letter Template 2: Times New Roman
  • Handout 3d: Letter Template 3: Comic Sans Serif
  • Handout 3e: Letter Template 4: Bookman Old StyleActivity 4a: Distinguishing Uppercase and Lowercase Letters
  • Transparency 4a: Uppercase and Lowercase Letter Match
  • Handout 4a: Uppercase and Lowercase Letter Match
  • Activity 4b: Distinguishing Uppercase and Lowercase Letters (Using American Sign Language)
  • Transparency 4b: American Sign Language Alphabet Match
  • Handout 4b: American Sign Language Alphabet Match
  • Activity 4c: Distinguishing Uppercase and Lowercase Letters (Using Sense of Touch)
  • Handout 4c1: Find the Letter Graph
  • Handout 4c2: Find the Letter GraphHandout 4c3: Find the Letter Graph
  • Activity 5: Distinguishing Letters/Sounds (Using Sense of Touch)
  • Handout 5a: Find the Sound Graph
  • Handout 5b: Find the Sound Graph
  • Handout 5c: Find the Sound Graph
  • Handout 5d: Find the Sound Graph
  • Chapter 3
  • Initial Sound Fluency
  • Activity 6a: Silly Sentencesâ€?Part 1
  • Activity 6b: Silly Sentencesâ€?Part 2
  • Activity 7: Picture/Sound Charts
  • Activity 8a: Letter/Sound Booksâ€?Part 1
  • Activity 8b: Letter/Sound Booksâ€?Part 2
  • Activity 9: Sound Collages