How to Reach and Teach All Children Through Balanced Literacy - Softcover

How to Reach and Teach All Children Through Balanced Literacy

How to Reach and Teach All Children Through Balanced Literacy offers you a handbook for teaching literacy to diverse students in grades 3–8. The balanced literacy method combines the best practices of phonics and other skill-based language instruction with the holistic, literature-based approach in order to help you teach reading, writing, and speaking in a clear and approachable format.

This dynamic resource offers an easily accessible, research-based approach to balanced literacy that is grounded in the innovative ideas developed by authors Sandra F. Rief and Julie A. Heimburge. The book includes detailed descriptions of what a balanced literacy classroom looks like and shows how to create a program from the ground up or give your existing program a boost. The book can be used across content areas and is filled with reproducible worksheets, activities, and other handy classroom tools. Topics covered include:

• Shared book experiences
• Reading aloud
• Oral language and vocabulary development
• Guided reading for comprehension
• Modeled writing
• Reading and writing conferences
• Book clubs
• Content area reading and writing
• Ongoing assessments
• Enhancing literacy through technology

"I enthusiastically endorse Rief and Heimburge's new book. It provides research-based practice that is reader friendly with strategies perfect for classroom use. A wealth of information for the new and experienced teacher is dealt with in this book."
—LESLEY MANDEL MORROW, Ph.D., professor of literacy, Rutgers University, and past president, International Reading Association

"An excellent resource in helping teachers become experts at what they are teaching, what the intended student learning is, and the skills, concepts, and habits we want our children to develop. This is a true must-read for all teachers of literacy."
—SONIA MENENDEZ, New York City Department of Education, local instructional superintendent, Region 1, Bronx, New York

THE AUTHORS

SANDRA F. RIEF, M.A., is an internationally known speaker, teacher trainer, consultant, and author of several best-selling books including How to Reach and Teach Children with ADD/ADHD. She lives in San Diego, California.

JULIE A. HEIMBURGE, M.A., coauthor of the best-selling How to Reach and Teach All Children in the Inclusive Classroom, is a veteran classroom teacher, with extensive experience as a staff developer, curriculum writer, and literacy coach. She lives in San Diego, California.