Literacy: Helping Students Construct Meaning -

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Résumé :
Suitable for K-8 literacy programs, this title provides aspiring teachers with the tools to help every student learn to read and write. It also provides pre-service and in-service teachers with the information, techniques, and strategies they need to assist their students in becoming literate.

Biographie:
J. David Cooper (Ed.D., Indiana University) is a retired professor from Ball State University. Prior to teaching at the college level, he taught at elementary and secondary schools in Louisville, Kentucky. Dr. Cooper has served as a consultant to the Department of Education in Washington, D.C., numerous state departments of education, and school systems throughout the country. Active in the International Reading Association, he has spoken in all 50 states and eight countries. Dr. Cooper has authored or coauthored more than 20 books on the teaching of reading. He has served as an editor of Indiana Reading Quarterly and as a reviewer for such leading journals as The Reading Teacher, Journal of Reading, and National Reading Conference Yearbook. Currently, Dr. Cooper consults on literacy instruction with numerous school districts throughout the United States.

Sommaire:
1. What You Need to Know to Be an Effective Literacy Teacher. 2. Frameworks for Effective Standards-Based Literacy Lessons. 3. Prior Knowledge: Activating and Developing Concepts and Vocabulary. 4. How to Teach Strategies for Constructing Meaning. 5. Beginning Literacy. 6. Intermediate Grades and Middle School: Decoding, Vocabulary, and Meaning. 7. Responding and the Construction of Meaning. 8. Writing and the Construction of Meaning. 9. Helping Struggling Readers. 10. Developing a Management System for a Comprehensive Balanced Literacy Classroom. 11. Assessment and Evaluation in the Comprehensive Balanced Literacy Classroom. Good Books and Where to Find Them. Handbook Resource Word Skills: Phonics and Structural Analysis for Teachers. Glossary. References.