Based on the idea that the best literacy teacher is the informed literacy teacher, this new book provides an accessible presentation of research and the teaching methods that stem from it. By emphasizing assessment and evaluation along with literacy skills and strategies as the basis for effective literacy teaching, chapters explain more than what to do in a literacy classroomathey help you understand why to do it. The book gives readers an understanding of the nature of reading and writing, equips them with the materials to teach, and develops in them the vital ability to select from this knowledge the abest practicesa for meeting children's individual needs. For parents, teachers, and child care specialists of elementary school reading students.Assessment of writing is also a critical component of an effective writing curriculum. Assessment must help the child improve as a writer. A letter grade on a paper does not inform the writer about what should have been done or what was done well. ... with a specific format, a personal narrative, and an expository piece, then those pieces would be kept in the portfolio. ... On our state test, a recent fourth-grade prompt was to select one of the seasons of the year and explain why it wasanbsp;...
Title | : | The Informed Reading Teacher |
Author | : | Bill Harp, Jo Ann Brewer |
Publisher | : | Prentice Hall - 2004-04 |
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