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Title The texts in elementary classrooms / edited by James V. Hoffman, Diane L. Schallert
Published Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 255 pages)
Series Center for Improvement of Early Reading Achievement
Center for Improvement of Early Reading Achievement (Series)
Contents Part I. Basic Processes and Text Features -- 1. Texts in the Teaching and Learning of Reading / Victoria Purcell-Gates and Nell K. Duke -- 2. Word Identification and Text Characteristics / James W. Cunningham [and others] -- 3. From Brown Bear to Paddington Bear : The Role of Text in the Development of Fluency / Steven A. Stahl and Katherine A. Dougherty Stahl -- 4. Children's Motivation to Read / Scott G. Paris and Robert D. Carpenter -- Part II. Considering the Forms of Texts in Classrooms -- 5. Choosing Fiction to Support Young Children's Literacy Development / Susan Keehn, Miriam G. Martinez, and William H. Teale -- 6. Leveled Texts for Beginning Readers : A Primer, a Test, and a Quest / James V. Hoffman, Nancy L. Roser, and Misty Sailors -- 7. Nonfiction Texts for Young Readers / Nell K. Duke and Cathy Tower -- 8. Local Texts : Reading and Writing "of the Classroom" / Beth Maloch, James V. Hofjman, and Elizabeth U. Patterson -- 9. Electronic Text in the Classroom / Michael L Kamil, Helen S. Kim, and Diane Lane -- Part III. Some Issues Surrounding Text Selection -- 10. The Selection and Use of English Texts With Young English Language Learners / Georgia Earnest Garcia and Eurydice Bouchereau Bauer -- 11. Heavy (and Heavy-Handed) Issues Surrounding Book Selection / Nancy Roser -- Part IV. Assessing the Text Environment -- 12. Studying the Literacy Environment and Literacy Practices as the Basis for Critical Reflection and Change / James V. Hoffman and Misty Sailors
Summary This volume explores a variety of topics, including: texts in the teaching and learning of reading; word identification and text characteristics; choosing fiction to support young children's literacy development; electronic text in the classroom; and issues surrounding text selection
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes English
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Subject Reading (Primary)
Reading (Elementary)
Education, Primary -- Curricula
Education, Elementary -- Curricula
Children -- Books and reading.
EDUCATION -- Teaching Methods & Materials -- Reading & Phonics.
EDUCATION -- Language Experience Approach.
Children -- Books and reading
Education, Elementary -- Curricula
Education, Primary -- Curricula
Reading (Elementary)
Reading (Primary)
Form Electronic book
Author Hoffman, James V
Schallert, Diane L
ISBN 1410611086
9781410611086
1135628904
9781135628901
1282375067
9781282375062
9786612375064
661237506X