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1 online resource (307 pages) |
| Contents |
Front Cover; Reading, Language, and Literacy; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Part I: Learning About Print; 1. Phonics and Beginning Reading Instruction: Marilyn Jager Adams; 2. Phonemic Awareness: A Consideration of Research and Practice: Kathleen Copeland, Pamela Winsor, and Jean Osborn; 3. Structural Analysis: Some Guidelines for Instruction: William E. Nagy, Pamela Winsor, Jean Osborn, and John O'Flahavan; 4. Twenty Years of Research on Reading: Answers and Questions: Joanna P. Williams; Part II: Whole Language |
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5. If It Ain't Whole, It Ain't Language -- orBack to the Basics of Freedom and Dignity: Hans U. Grundin6. Whole Language: Exploring the Meaning of the Label:Diane Stephens; 7. Separating the Rhetoric from the Effects: Whole Language in Kindergarten and First Grade: Steven A. Stahl; 8. Creating Optimum Learning Environments: Is Membership in the Whole Language Community Necessary?: Irene W. Gaskins; Part III: Children, Adults, Books: Interactive Reading; 9. Awakening Literacy Through Interactive Story Reading: Bonnie M. Kerr and Jana M. Mason |
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10. Student, Text, Teacher: Interactive Learning in the Reading Recovery Program: Gay Su Pinnell11. Home and School Influences on Learning to Read in Kindergarten Through Second Grade: Linda A. Meyer and James L. Wardrop; Part IV: The Rediscovery of Literature in the Curriculum; 12. The Power of the Narrative: Tom Trabasso; 13. Multiculturalism and Children's Literature: Violet J. Harris; Part V: Reading Research: Implications for Teachers, Policymakers, and Publishers; 14. World Illiteracy: Vincent Greaney |
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15. Resistance, Complacency, and Reform in Reading Assessment: P. David Pearson and Anne C. Stallman16. Research as We Approach the Millennium: Beyond Becoming a Nation of Readers: Judith A. Scott, Elfrieda H. Hiebert, and Richard C. Anderson; Part VI: Publishers' Perspectives; 17. Consensus Emerging, But a Way to Go: James R. Squire; 18. Children, Adults, Books: Implications for Publishers: John T. Ridley; Author Index; Subject Index |
| Summary |
The impetus for this book emerged from a conference that brought together publishers, and reading researchers and educators for the purpose of examining the best available research evidence about what we know -- and what we have yet to learn -- about the teaching of reading and about how children learn to read. The goal of the conference was to contribute to a sound research base upon which to develop classroom practices that will ensure that every American child will become fully literate. Because the field is still so deeply divided over the best ways to translate belief into classroom pra |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Osborn, Jean
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| ISBN |
9781136476853 |
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1136476857 |
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