Description
Book SynopsisAbout 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, Wo
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“[ Creating Literacy Instruction for All Students] is by far the best text we have reviewed for our course on classroom reading instruction… Each chapter presents important information about literacy instruction in a manner that undergraduate students understand. It is comprehensive and informative.”
– Dr. Cindy Jones, Utah State University
“[Strengths include] the breadth of coverage and inclusion of supportive diagrams, tables, and figures... Also, the anticipation guides are wonderful supports and ways to engage discussion in class.”
– Dr. Erika Gray, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
“It’s remarkable how the text includes such a wide range of content that is relevant and helpful for preservice and inservice teachers.”
– Dr. Irene Welch-Mooney, University of New Mexico
“Gunning presents information in a straightforward way. I like how he provides depth and breadth to the material and uses lots of examples. This is a book both undergraduate and graduate students could use.”
– Dr. Kerry Holmes, University of Mississippi
Table of Contents
Brief Contents
- The Nature of Literacy
- Teaching All Students
- Assessing for Learning
- Emergent/Early Literacy
- Teaching Phonics and Syllabic Analysis
- High-Frequency Words, Fluency, and Extended Reading
- Building Vocabulary
- Comprehension: Theories and Strategies
- Comprehension: Text Structures and Teaching Procedures
- Reading and Writing in the Content Areas and Study Skills
- Reading Literature
- Approaches to Teaching Reading
- Writing and Reading
- Creating and Managing a Literacy Program
