Enhancing Literacy for All Students

Download or read book Enhancing Literacy for All Students written by S. Jay Kuder and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2002 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book prepares teachers to shape the reading, writing and language skills of children in diverse classroom settings. With its focus on early literacy activities in home and school settings, this book offers thorough coverage that helps readers grasp literacy development as it occurs from emergent to advanced levels. Rooted in practicality, it presents methods that have been successful with children who have a wide spectrum of learning abilities as well as those with substantial learning challenges. Chapter topics include foundations of literacy; students with literacy difficulties; assessing literacy; enhancing emergent literacy, early literacy, transitional literacy, and advanced literacy skills; specialized approaches for literacy difficulties; enhancing literacy with students with moderate and severe disabilities; literacy and diversity; and families and literacy. For elementary school teachers of reading and language arts.