Improving Early Literacy - (Jossey-Bass Teacher) by Wilma H Miller (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>Improving Early Literacy</i> offers teachers an arsenal of reading strategies for helping struggling emergent readers develop letter-name knowledge, sight word knowledge, phonics, and reading fluency skills. This book provides a comprehensive listing of various strategies incorporated into activities and worksheets and offers <ul> <li>a practical introduction to early literacy instruction</li> <li>informal assessment devices based on proven research concepts</li> <li>approaches, strategies, and materials for teaching early literacy skills</li> <li>techniques for developing listening and oral language skills</li> <li>ways to assess and implement letter-name knowledge and sight word knowledge</li> <li>strategies for improving phonic analysis</li> <li>enhancement of structural and contextual analysis</li> <li>ways to expand vocabulary and comprehension</li> <li>techniques for teaching emergent literacy to children with special needs</li> </ul><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>Improving Early Literacy <p>Strategies and Activities for Struggling Students (K-3)</p> <p>This practical resource provides teachers with creative strategies, games, and reproducible activity sheets that are designed to help improve literacy skills in struggling K-3 readers. Improving Early Literacy addresses five general areas for improving reading instruction: letter-name knowledge, sight word knowledge, phonics, word structure, contextual analysis, vocabulary knowledge, and comprehension. It also includes reproducible informal assessment devices. Written by Wilma H. Miller, an expert in the field of early literacy, this important book is based on solid research and includes activities, strategies, and hands-on exercises that can be used both in standard and in special education classrooms for either whole class instruction or work with individual students.</p> <p>Improving Early Literacy offers teachers an arsenal of reading strategies for helping struggling emergent readers develop letter-name knowledge, sight word knowledge, phonics, and reading fluency skills. This book provides a comprehensive listing of various strategies incorporated into activities and worksheets and offers</p> <ul> <li>a practical introduction to early literacy instruction</li> <li>informal assessment devices based on proven research concepts</li> <li>approaches, strategies, and materials for teaching early literacy skills</li> <li>techniques for developing listening and oral language skills</li> <li>ways to assess and implement letter-name knowledge and sight word knowledge</li> <li>strategies for improving phonic analysis</li> <li>enhancement of structural and contextual analysis</li> <li>ways to expand vocabulary and comprehension</li> <li>techniques for teaching emergent literacy to children with special needs</li> </ul><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Wilma H. Miller, Ed.D., is professor emeritas of education at Illinois State University in Normal, where she taught undergraduate and graduate students in reading for over thirty years. Prior to that she taught at the University of Wisconsin and was an elementary teacher in Illinois and Arizona. Dr. Miller has published numerous journal articles dealing with reading and has also authored many books in the field, including Reading Comprehension Activities Kit, Complete Reading Disabilities Handbook, and Alternative Assessment Techniques for Reading & Writing.
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