What you need to know to be an effective literacy teacher -- Frameworks for effective standards-based literacy lessons -- Prior knowledge : activating and developing concepts and vocabulary - How to teach strategies for constructing meaning -- Beginning literacy -- Intermediate grades and middle school : decoding, vocabulary and meaning -- Responding to the construction of meaning -- Writing and the construction of meaning -- Helping struggling readers -- Developing a management system for a comprehensive balanced literacy classroom -- Assessment and evaluation in the comprehensive balanced literacy classroom -- Good books and where to find them -- Word skills : phonics and structural analysis for teachers.

A leading resource for K-8 literacy programs, this extremely popular reading methods book has a simple goal: to provide aspiring teachers with the tools to help every student learn to read and write. LITERACY: HELPING CHILDREN CONSTRUCT MEANING, International Edition, continues to provide pre-service and in-service teachers with the information, techniques, and strategies they need to assist their students in becoming literate. The book is distinguished in the field by its use of practical literacy lessons and authentic examples, which clearly demonstrate how to teach reading and writing. Authentic, full-color children's stories (in excerpts or in their entirety) model extended literacy lessons throughout the text.