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Promotes a six-step method of teaching reading, shares the results of Dr. Edward Fry's extensive research in literacy and provides background information on the five essential elements of an effective reading program.
The present research consists of 45 pages, 4 chapters, 5 subchapters, 6 tables, 6 figures and 6 appendices. The author of the paper has analysed different kinds of literature, such as scientific research and publications, scientific and course books referred to the teaching reading methods and the best approaches. In his practical part of this research the author has tried to implement the most effective methods and approaches into practise. All the author’s successes and failures are described, analysed and taken into consideration in this research. The author of the paper has chosen teaching reading topic because he discovered evident contradiction between a comparatively great number of English lessons: qualitative course books on one hand, and apparently poor reading skills on the other hand in elementary school. The main, positive conclusion of the research is that variations of teaching methods considerably improve reading skills, but this regularity does not always apply to the children that are having different psychological problems like shyness, diffidence, fear. At the same time a poor ability to make conclusion and poor vocabulary is the main cause of weak language comprehension and lacking reading skills.
Promotes a six-step method of teaching reading, shares the results of Dr. Edward Fry's extensive research in literacy and provides background information on the five essential elements of an effective reading program.
Providing practical, research-based strategies for various aspects of literacy education, this text supplies guidance for providing direct instruction in phonics, using authentic texts, building word recognition, strengthening comprehension, and implementing writing across the curriculum.
Based on the theory that, for ordinary purposes, a teacher needs to know the results and not the processes of psychological research, Pennell and Cusack's new book on reading bridges the gap between the laboratory and the classroom. The conclusions of the psychologists are stated briefly and without technical language. The results of investigations concerning the work of the eye in reading are admirably summed up. The authors consider the laws of learning only as they apply to reading. Throughout, the book is based upon sound psychological principles, which it accepts as a major premise and from which it proceeds deductivity.
Now in an updated third edition, this best-selling textbook introduces primary teachers to the key issues in how to teach reading. The authors celebrate reading as an important, exhilarating part of the curriculum with the potential to transform lives, whilst also giving a balanced handling of contentious issues. Strongly rooted in classroom practice, the book provides comprehensive coverage of differing reading practices and resources. Key features include: managing specialized reading difficulties, such as dyslexia EAL and gender issues in reading use of ICT within reading a detailed inspection of the phonics debate. This book is essential reading for both trainee teachers and qualified teachers interested in continuing their professional development.
`Some interesting ideas for Literacy Hour.... A useful introduction and source of ideas' - NATE This accessible and practical guide to teaching young children to read focuses on: the process of learning to read and its implications for teaching; issues about learning to read which all teachers need to understand; and a programme of teaching children to read. The author deals with the learning that is necessary, and the teaching which enables it to be achieved. Now fully updated to include the most recent thinking on phonics, handwriting and literacy practices in the early years classroom, the book proposes a theoretical teaching model which will help teachers to make optimum use of the Literacy Hour.
"How to Teach Reading to Elementary and Middle School Students: Practical Ideas from Highly Effective Teachers"is a strategy-based text that successfully combines ideas from the classrooms of highly effective teachers with the latest findings from reading research. The integration of skilled practice with reading theory provides practical, useful techniques for teaching reading to students across a wide range of achievement levels. Instructional ideas presented in this book are designed to ensure continued growth in reading skill, including the use of phonics and structural analysis; in sight vocabulary and meaning vocabulary development; in reading fluency; and in comprehension of narrative and informational text. "Take a Peek..." "How to Do" boxes list step-by-step actions for conducting a reading skill or strategy lesson, assessment procedure, and other important instructional tasks. "Strategies in Use" feature provides a modeling of highly effective reading and literacy strategy instruction in real-life classroom contexts by describing actual teachers carrying out specific instructional strategies and activities with their students. "The Highly Effective Teacher on Technology" boxes are designed to demonstrate ways teachers can integrate technology into reading and literacy instruction. "Book Earns High Praise from Reviewers""Ruddell's text is one of the few that provides teaching strategies, assessments, and general information appropriate for intermediate grade reading instruction. Ruddell provides step-by-step instructions for important teaching strategies that every pre-service teacher should know." - Pamela Dunston, "Clemson"" University" "The technology section, the levels of thinking section, vocabulary section, professional growth section, and the section on questioning strategies are very good." - Marie C. Roos, "Jackson"" State University" "I like how both narrative and expository literacy (Chapter 8, Developing Reading and Writing in Content Areas) are covered in the textbook. I feel that helps set the book apart from others. The chapter on 'Instructing Delayed Readers in a Regular Classroom Setting' [Chapter 10] also seems unique to me. That chapter addresses a very real need for teachers." - Ward Cockrum, "Northern"" Arizona"" University" "Meet the Author"Robert Ruddell has been a reading teacher for over four decades. His research has examined the characteristics of reading teachers who are highly effective and influential in the lives of their students. The ideas and instructional strategies for teaching reading found in this book are a distillation of these teaching experiences and research findings. He has taught a wide range of courses in reading and language development working with teaching credential students, and M.A., Ed.D., and Ph.D. students, at Berkeley. He is Professor Emeritus of the Language, Literacy, and Culture Faculty Group at the University of California, Berkeley.
