Words Their Way

Word Study  for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction
By Donald R. Bear
Call Number: PE1117 .Z5 B41 2004
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A core text or supplement for phonics and reading methods courses. Words Their Way, Third Edition is designed to help teachers address the needs of all readers and spellers, by setting out a clear way to accommodate each student’s developmental level, then providing the best methods for teaching to that level. In support of this philosophy, the authors provide more than 250 ready-to-use activities for teaching word study, spelling, vocabulary, and phonics.

Phonics They Use

Words for Reading and Writing
By Patricia M. Cunningham
Call Number: LB1573.3 .C86 2005
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This bestseller is packed with new activities and strategies for teaching reading. It weaves together the complex and varied strategic approaches needed to help students develop reading and spelling skills.

Creating Strategic Readers

Techniques for Developing Competency in Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension
By Valerie Ellery
Call Number: LB1050 .E42 2005
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To develop lifelong readers, it is vital for teachers to also show students how to apply these reading skills strategically to acquire meaning from text. This book is a comprehensive resource you can use to better equip yourself in the craft of teaching reading. Author Valerie Ellery first lays the groundwork for a comprehensive literacy classroom, detailing appropriate curriculum, assessment, and instruction. She then focuses on the five essential components of reading instruction—phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension—to align instruction with current standards.

Guided Reading: Making It Work

By Mary Browning Schulman and Carleen daCruz Payne
Call Number: LB1525 .S37 2000
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Guided reading is wonderful in theory, but how do you manage it? In this practical resource, two veteran teachers provide a step-by-step guide to guided reading, sharing their lesson plans, management strategies, and assessment tools. They show you how to manage flexible groups, match books to student needs, incorporate phonics, and use assessment to inform instruction. Transcripts of guiding reading sessions and lots of teacher prompts show exactly how guided reading can work for you. Also included is a list of over 650 book titles leveled by reading stage and by Reading Recovery levels. For use with Grades K-3.

Literacy for the 21st Century

By Gail E. Tompkins
Call Number: LB1576 .T657 2006
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Literacy for the 21st Century is the number #1 reading text preferred by teacher educators, future teachers, and in-service teachers. It continues to offer the most balanced approach to literacy instruction on the market today, while providing the clearest look into successful literacy teaching. The new 4th Edition has been thoroughly revised to address the realities of today’s classroom and to provide invaluable practical resources instructors will want their students to keep for use in their own classroom.

Children’s Literature in the Elementary School

By Charlotte S. Huck
Call Number: LB1575.5.U5 H79 2001
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This text shows readers how children’s literature can capture the attention of K-8 students and foster a lifelong love of reading. The text covers learning about children’s literature, understanding children’s responses to literature, the history of children’s literature, all the genres (beginning books, picture storybooks, traditional literature, fantasy, poetry, realistic fiction, historical fiction, biography, and informational books), planning the literature program, and extending and evaluating children’s understandings of literature.