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Creating Literacy Instruction for All Students, 10th edition

Published by Pearson (April 18, 2019) © 2020

  • Thomas G. Gunning

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For courses in Elementary Reading Methods (K to 8).

The most comprehensive PreK to 8 literacy text on the market, packed with practical instruction and assessment strategies that support the literacy development of all learners

Creating Literacy Instruction for All Students includes in-depth coverage of every major topic and research-based strategy in literacy education. Readers will gain a thorough understanding of every essential theory and technique, then choose which strategies best fit their students' needs and their personal teaching style.

The 10th Edition highlights technology's increasing role and use in both literacy assessment and instruction and incorporates new research studies.

Hallmark features of this title

  • The Academic Word list specifies words that occur with high frequency in elementary and middle school. Words are listed by difficulty so teachers can easily pick words that are most appropriate.
  • Student Reading Lists are provided in all instructional chapters as a resource for titles that reinforce the particular literacy skills being discussed.
  • Model Lessons cover nearly every area of literacy instruction.
  • Exemplary Teaching features and Case Studies offer real-life perspectives and examples of good teaching practices.
  • Reinforcement Activities and Extending & Applying summaries provide suggestions and practice opportunities for practical application, particularly in the area of reading and writing for real purposes.

New and updated features of this title

  • NEW: A new chapter (6), “High-Frequency Words, Fluency and Extended Reading,” explores high-frequency words, fluency and the role of extended reading in developing automatic word recognition and fluency. As a result of this change, Chapter 5 now focuses exclusively on Phonics and Syllabic Analysis.
  • UPDATED: Additional ways to integrate technology resources into the curriculum are presented with an emphasis on high-quality, low-cost resources.

NEW/UPDATED: New and expanded coverage of key topics, including:

  • Coverage of research that offers convincing proof that almost all students can be brought up to grade level if provided with proper instruction and (deliberate) practice, critical literacy, self-efficacy, and growth mindset (Ch. 1, dyslexia, ADHD, autism spectrum, RTI and MTSS (Ch. 2)
  • Impact of ESSA and using technology in assessment including computer adaptive tests (Ch. 3), parents' role in literacy development (Ch. 4), oral vs. silent reading (Ch. 6)
  • Word tiers, teaching morphemic analysis, and suggestions for aiding students whose vocabularies are underdeveloped (Ch. 7), Role of interest and motivation in comprehension (Ch. 8) and more.
  1. The Nature of Literacy
  2. Teaching All Students
  3. Assessing for Learning
  4. Emergent/Early Literacy
  5. Teaching Phonics and Syllabic Analysis
  6. High-Frequency Words, Fluency, and Extended Reading
  7. Building Vocabulary
  8. Comprehension: Theories and Strategies
  9. Comprehension: Text Structures and Teaching Procedures
  10. Reading and Writing in the Content Areas and Study Skills
  11. Reading Literature
  12. Approaches to Teaching Reading
  13. Writing and Reading
  14. Creating and Managing a Literacy Program

About our authors

Thomas G. Gunning has taught courses in methods of teaching reading and writing for more than 20 years and was director of the Reading Clinic at Southern Connecticut State University. Before that, as a secondary English teacher, a reading specialist, and an elementary school reading consultant, he worked extensively with achieving and struggling readers and writers. Dr. Gunning is currently working on programs to help struggling readers learn foundational skills and build their overall reading ability.

Over the years, Dr. Gunning's research has explored reading interests, informal reading inventories, decoding strategies, readability, higher-level literacy skills and response to intervention. As a result of this research, he has created a number of informal assessments and programs for developing decoding and comprehension skills, including an intervention program for students experiencing difficulty learning decoding skills, Word Building: A Response to Intervention Program (Galvin Publishing); a program designed to develop students' comprehension, Reading Comprehension Boosters: 100 Lessons for Building Higher-Level Literacy (Grades 3 to 5) (Jossey-Bass) and a program designed to foster the use of formative assessment, Reading Success for All Students: Using Formative Assessment to Guide Instruction and Intervention (Grades K—8) (Jossey-Bass). Dr. Gunning's books with Pearson include: Assessing and Correcting Reading and Writing Difficulties, 6th Edition; Creating Literacy Instruction for All Students in Grades 4 to 8, 3rd Edition; Creating Literacy Instruction for All Children in Grades Pre-K to 4, 2nd Edition; Building Literacy in Secondary Content Area Classrooms; Developing Higher-Level Literacy in All Students: Building Reading, Reasoning and Responding and Closing the Literacy Gap.

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