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PAPERBACK price:$29.95 add to cart Rights & Permissions Free Resources PDF SUMMARY Display this book on your site! Related Titles Starting Out Right: A Guide to Promoting Children's Reading Success Taking Science to School: Learning and Teaching Science in Grades K-8 Other Related Titles Preparing Our Teachers: Opportunities for Better Reading Instruction (2002) Joseph Henry Press (JHP) Citation Manager Export the bibliographic data for this book in your chosen format Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Citation Manager National Research Council. "Front Matter." Preparing Our Teachers: Opportunities for Better Reading Instruction. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2002. 1. Print. Please select a format: Page I   E-mail  Buzz This  Facebook  Delicious  Stumble  Twitter More The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. PREPARING OUR TEACHERS Page I Front Matter (R1-R8) Introduction: Teachers of Young Children, the Agents and Champions of Literacy (1-28) 1. From Shopping Lists to Poetry: Forms and Functions of Written Language (29-54) 2. Making Meaning: Language Development and Comprehension (55-80) 3. Sounds, Letters, and Words: How Print Works (81-118) 4. Moving to Success: Motivating Children to Read (119-146) 5. Anticipating Challenges: Assessment, Prevention, and Intervention (147-174) About the Authors (175-176) Index (177-182) Credits (183-184)

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Preparing Our Teachers: Opportunities for Better Reading Instruction PREPARING OUR TEACHERS Opportunities for Better Reading Instruction The New Brunswick Group Dorothy Strickland Catherine Snow Peg Griffin M.Susan Burns Peggy McNamara JOSEPH HENRY PRESS WASHINGTON, D.C.

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Preparing Our Teachers: Opportunities for Better Reading Instruction Joseph Henry Press 500 Fifth Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20001 The Joseph Henry Press, an imprint of the National Academies Press, was created with the goal of making books on science, technology, and health more widely available to professionals and the public. Joseph Henry was one of the founders of the National Academy of Sciences and a leader in early American science. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this volume are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Academy of Sciences or its affiliated institutions. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Preparing our teachers: opportunities for better reading instruction/Dorothy Strickland…[et al.] (the New Brunswick Group). p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-309-07445-2 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Reading teachers—Training of—United States. 2. Reading. I. Strickland, Dorothy S. II. New Brunswick Group. LB2844.1.R4 P74 2002 428.4'071–dc21 2002151774 Copyright 2002 by the National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America

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Preparing Our Teachers: Opportunities for Better Reading Instruction Contents     Introduction Teachers of Young Children: The Agents and Champions of Literacy   1      How This Book Came to Be   6      What’s at Stake   12      What Are Teacher Education and Professional Development?   13      A Firm Footing for Learning to Teach Reading in the Early Grades   17      Who This Book Is For   20      We Must Do It, and We Can   21      Notes   23      Resources   24 Chapter 1   From Shopping Lists to Poetry: Forms and Functions of Written Language   29      Playing with Symbols   31      The Workings of Print   34      How Texts Vary   36      Oral and Written Language   37      Writing—When Children Control the Symbols   38      Sample Activities for Teacher Learning   41      Resources   52

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Preparing Our Teachers: Opportunities for Better Reading Instruction Chapter 2   Making Meaning: Language Development and Comprehension   55      Spoken Language—a Link to literacy   58      Speaking of and in Multilingual Classrooms   60      Vocabulary Words—and the Ideas That Go With Them   62      Comprehension and Metacognition   66      Sample Activities for Teacher Learning   70      Resources   76 Chapter 3   Sounds, Letters, and Words: How Print Works   81      Facts About Sounds and Spoken Words   83      Penetrating Words—Phonemic Awareness   92      Corresponding with Letters—Phonics   98      Fast, Easy, Complete Reading—Fluency   101      Sample Activities for Teacher Learning   104      Resources   114 Chapter 4   Moving to Success: Motivating Children to Read   119      Grown-ups Have Fickle Motivations   119      Impressions of Children’s Motivations   120      Concepts Essential to Motivating Children   123      Good Reading Instruction Raises the Bar for Motivating Students   126

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Preparing Our Teachers: Opportunities for Better Reading Instruction      The Matter of Materials to Motivate Reading   127      Can the Routine Aspects of Reading Be Interesting?   129      Writing Motivates Reading   129      Teaching Directly About Motivation to Read   131      Enlisting Families to Motivate Readers   132      Culture and Motivation   133      Sample Activities for Teacher Learning   134      Resources   142 Chapter 5   Anticipating Challenges: Assessment, Prevention, and Intervention   147      Prepared to Know When to Intervene   148      Prepared to Assess All Aspects of Skilled Reading   151      Prepared to Provide Interventions   153      Instructional Groupings in Interventions   155      Computers in Interventions   155      Professional Development and Assessment   157      Sample Activities for Teacher Learning   160      Resources   167     About the Authors   175     Index   177     Credits   183

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