Synopses & Reviews
The new edition of 50 Literacy Strategies: Step by Step by Gail E. Tompkins is a conveniently organized resource for all elementary and middle school teachers, providing research-based and classroom-tested strategies to develop literacy skills. Everything you need to know to implement each strategy effectively and quickly is included in a consistent, easy-to-understand format.
Each of the strategies outlines:
- Instructional Focus: whether the strategy develops phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and/or writing
- Grade Level: whether the strategy is appropriate for k-2, 3-5 or 6-8
- Scaffolding English Learners: how the strategy is particularly appropriate, or how it can be adapted to better meet the needs of, English Learners
- Step by Step: as always, clearly outlined steps to implement the strategy
- Why and When to Use the Strategy: headings to determine why each strategy is appropriate and when it’s best to choose each strategy
- Authentic Student Samples: to model the responses strategies will receive from students
The strategies are organized alphabetically and numbered for easy reference. Inside the cover is an index grouping strategies by concept, providing another helpful guide to finding the strategy needed.
Synopsis
This conveniently organized resource book reflects the latest, most exciting ideas in literature focus units, reading/writing workshop, and thematic instruction. It provides step-by-step instructions for using fifty research based, classroom tested literacy strategiesencompassing reading, writing, listening, speaking, and visualizingand for each, supportive material helps classroom teachers decide the when, why, and how of optimal use. A Categorical Index of strategies appears on the inside front cover, serving as a handy reference for classroom use, making strategy selection easier and more reliable. New instructional strategies such as interactive writing, story retelling, and word sorts have been included. A supplemental book to assist elementary school teachers in literacy and language arts.
About the Author
Gail E. Tompkins is Professor Emerita at California State Unversity, Fresno, and she continues to direct the San Joaquin Valley Writing Project. She regularly works with teachers in their kindergarten through eighth-grade classrooms and leads staff development programs on reading, language arts, and writing. In 1998 Dr. Tompkins was inducted into the California Reading Association's Reading Hall of Fame in recognition of her publication and other accomplishments in the field of reading, and recently she was awarded the prestigious Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching at California's State University, Fresno.
Table of Contents
List of Instructional Strategies
1. "All About..." Books
2. Alphabet Books
3. Anticipation Guides
4. Author's Chair
5. Book Boxes
6. Book Talks
7. Choral Reading
8. Collaborative Books
9. Cloze Procedure
10. Clusters
11. Cubing
12. Data Charts
13. Double-Entry Journals
14. Exclusion Brainstorming
15. Gallery Walks
16. Goldilocks Strategy
17. Grand Conversations
18. Guided Reading
19. Hot Seat (new)
20. Interactive Read-Alouds (new)
21. Interactive Writing
22. K-W-L Charts
23. Language Experience Approach
24. Learning Logs
25. Literacy Centers
26. Making Words
27. Minilessons
28. Open-Mind Portraits
29. Plot Profiles
30. Prereading Plan
31. Question-Answer-Relationships
32. Questioning the Author (new)
33. Quickwrites
34. Quilts
35. Readers Theatre
36. Reading Logs
37. Reciprocal Questioning
38. Rubrics (new)
39. Shared Reading
40. Sketch-to-Stretch
41. SQ3R Study Strategy
42. Story Boards
43. Story Retelling
44. Sustained Silent Reading
45. Tea Party
46. Venn Diagrams
47. Word Ladders (new)
48. Word Sorts
49. Word Walls
50. Writing Groups