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This widely adopted text provides a comprehensive guide to effective literacy instruction in the elementary grades. Distinguished scholar and educator Michael Pressley presents research-based, classroom-tested best practices for combining skills-based and whole-language approaches in the context of a highly motivating environment. The book explains the theoretical underpinnings of recommended strategies and techniques and shows how exemplary teachers actually put them into practice.
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Pressley (teacher education, counseling, educational psychology, and special education, Michigan State U.) has updated this text according to the latest research in skills-based and whole-language approaches in a highly motivated environment, focusing on fluency, vocabulary and writing. With his contributors he describes the concept of "balanced teaching" as it applies to the concepts of "whole language" and "skilled reading," with attention to children who have problems learning to read, the process of understanding that happens before reading actual words begins, the development of fluency and vocabulary and the impediments to same, and expert primary-level teaching of literacy as a form of balanced teaching and the need for increased comprehension instruction. He wisely addresses writing as a separate skill and concept within the overall issue of effective elementary instruction, and notes the importance of motivation for students as well as teachers. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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