Teaching Reading in the 21st Century - Hardcover

Michael F. Graves

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9780205386383: Teaching Reading in the 21st Century

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0205386385 ISBN 13: 9780205386383

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, 2004

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Maintaining and strengthening its commitment to a rich and balanced reading program, this edition deals with each of the topics emphasized by the National Reading Panel and Reading First but goes well beyond those topics to present a truly comprehensive program of reading instruction. Informed by the latest research on topics ranging from phonemic awareness and phonics to teaching comprehension strategies and reader response, the book provides teachers with the knowledge skills, and assessment strategies to successfully guide elementary students toward literacy for the 21st Century-the use of reading and writing for thinking, problem solving, and communicating. The text is rich in first-person accounts, classroom vignettes, and hands-on literacy activities. Some principal themes include balancing skills and more holistic approaches; fostering the love of reading; and successfully teaching all students-mainstream and minority, native speakers of English and English-language learners, and special needs and gifted-to become able and eager readers.

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Teaching Reading in the 21st Century (with Assessments and Lesson Plans Booklet), 4/e

About the Fourth Edition:

With new chapters on fluency and motivation, the Fourth Edition of Teaching Reading in the 21st Century maintains the friendly voice of its widely recognized author team and its superior coverage of assessment for learning, and strengthens its commitment to a rich, balanced, and comprehensive program of reading instruction. Always practical, this edition is even richer in first-person accounts, instructional routines, classroom vignettes, and hands-on literacy activities.

One reviewer sums it up:

In a perfect number of chapters for a typical college semester, Graves et al. carefully cover such incredibly important concepts as the complex, recursive nature of reading and writing, the special considerations... for English language learners, and the intricacies of grouping learners. Countless professors will appreciate the ways in which the authors highlight and consistently interweave such vital notions as metacognition, scaffolding, the gradual release of responsibility model, and reciprocal teaching. Perhaps my favorite part of the text is that there is not just one, but two excellent chapters on comprehension.

Christine Woodcock, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts

What is New of the Fourth Edition?

A new full-color design and increased trim size make this already-friendly book even friendlier.
A complete new chapter on Motivation and Engagement (Ch. 3)
A complete new chapter on Fluency (Ch. 6)
New and Revised In the Classroom/ Instructional Routines features in every chapter
An Expanded Assessment Strategies and Lesson Plans Booklet—free with every new student text

About the Author:

Michael F. Graves is a former high school English teacher, a Professor Emeritus of Literacy Education at the University of Minnesota, and a member of the Reading Hall of Fame. Michael has authored and coauthored over a dozen books on vocabulary learning and instruction and on comprehension instruction. His recent books include Teaching Vocabulary to English-Language Learners, Fostering Comprehension in English Classes, and Reading and Responding in the Middle Grades.

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