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Closing the literacy gap

Langue : Anglais

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Couverture de l’ouvrage Closing the literacy gap

At a time when so many pivotal education issues are closely tied to literacy and education policy, such as No Child Left Behind legislation, Tom Gunning provides critical insight into the key elements needed to close the literacy gap in America's schools, from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade.

Closing the Literacy Gap addresses the demands of the No Child Left Behind legislation and provides a wide range of recommendations and a great number of practical suggestions for closing the literacy gap. This much-awaited text builds from an early emphasis on creating a vision statement to implementing effective techniques and assessing for instruction. Unlike other texts, Gunning provides a coherent plan for program implementation that has proven to successfully close the literacy gap. The recommendations provided within the text are specific and detailed and are built on basic principles.

1. The Literacy Gap.

Dimensions of the Gap.

Causes of the Gap.

Role of NCLB in Closing the Gap.

Composition of Your Class or School.

2. Programs that Close the Gap.

Schools that Beat the Odds.

Characteristics of Schools that Beat the Odds.

The Teacher is Key.

Complexity of School Improvement.

Creating a Program that Beats the Odds.

Creating a Vision.

Setting Goals and Objectives.

Conducting a Needs Assessment.

3. The Role of Assessment in Closing the Gap.

Making the Match.

Obtaining Placement Information.

Screening Students.

Continuous Progress Monitoring.

Diagnosis.

Outcome Measures.

Assessing Materials.

Assessing the Assessment Component of Your Program.

4. Building Language.

Developing Language in the Classroom.

Building Vocabulary.

The Words Students Need to Know.
Assessing Students' Word Knowledge.

Embedded and Systematic Programs.

Using Read Alouds to Build Vocabulary.

Wide Reading.

Fostering an Interest in Words.

Vocabulary Activities.

Using Imaging to Learn Words.

Setting Goals for Vocabulary Learning.

FAME: An Intensive Vocabulary Development Program

Commercial Programs.

Helping English Language Learners.

Assessing the Language Development Component of Your Program.

5. Building Higher-level Thinking Skills and Comprehension.

Teaching Specific Thinking Skills.

Focus on Comprehension.

Boosting Low Achieving Readers' Thinking and Comprehension.

Building Background.

Making Connections.

Putting It All Together: Using a GO! Chart.

Preparing Students for High-Stakes Comprehension Tests.

Assessing the Thinking Skills Component of Your Program.

6. Building Background through Informational Readingand Writing.

Importance of Informational Text.

Themes: Reading in Depth.

Using the Content Areas to Close the Gap.

Improving Access to Texts.

Using Writing to Close the Gap.

Assessing the Reading and Writing Informational Text Component of Your Program.

7. Using Extensive Reading to Close the Gap.

Beefing Up Content: Building Background.

Extra Reading Is Needed to Close the Gap.

Setting Aside Time for Self-Selected Reading.

Fountas and Pinnell's Independent Reading: A Structured Version of Voluntary Reading.

The 100 Book Challenge.

Motivating Voluntary Reading.

The Role of the Media Specialist.

Impact of Book Discussion Groups.

Assessing the Extensive Reading Component of Your Program.

8. Phonological Awareness and Word Analysis.

Phonological Awareness.

How Words Are Read.

Systematic, Functional, Contextual Phonics.

Syllabic Analysis as Part of Phonics Instruction.

Helping Students Who Have Difficulty with Multisyllabic Words.

The Importance of Teaching Needed Skills.

Presenting Phonics.

Helpful Activities for Struggling Readers.

Building Fluency.

Teaching Decoding Strategies.

Balancing Instruction and Application.

Decodable Text.

High Frequency Words.

Providing Guidance in Word Learning Skills.

Morphemic Analysis.

Contextual Analysis.

Dictionary Usage.

Assessing the Word Analysis Component of Your Program.

9. The Effectiveness of Affective Factors.

High Expectations.

The Importance of Caring.

Using Motivation to Overcome the Gap.

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