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Creating Literacy Instruction for All Students, 11th edition

Published by Pearson (August 15, 2024) © 2025

  • Thomas G. Gunning

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Title overview

Creating Literacy Instruction for all Students is the most comprehensive preK to 8 literacy text available, packed with practical instruction and assessment strategies that support the literacy development of all learners. It includes in-depth coverage of every major topic and research-based strategy in literacy education. You will gain a thorough understanding of every essential theory and practical technique, then choose which strategies best fit your students' needs and your own personal teaching style.

The 11th Edition is thoroughly updated with new research, techniques, technology resources and information about literacy assessment and instruction. It emphasizes the need for equity and accelerating the literacy progress of all students to close the achievement gap.

Table of contents

  1. The Nature of Literacy
  2. Teaching All Students
  3. Assessing for Learning
  4. Fostering Emergent/Early Literacy
  5. Teaching Phonics and High-Frequency Words
  6. Teaching Syllabic and Morphemic Analysis and Fluency
  7. Building Vocabulary
  8. Comprehension: Theory 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

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