Literacy : helping students construct meaning /
J. David Cooper, Nancy D. Kiger, Michael D. Robinson, with contributions from Jill Ann Slansky, with an introduction by Kathryn H. Au.
- 8th ed. ; instructor's ed.
- Belmont, CA : Wadsworth Cengage Learning, c2012.
- xxiv, 551 p. : chiefly col. ill., map ; 24 cm.
What you need to know to be an effective literacy teacher -- Frameworks for effective standards-based literacy lessons -- Prior knowledge : activating and developing concepts and vocabulary -- How to teach strategies for constructing meaning -- Beginning literacy -- Intermediate grades and middle school : decoding, vocabulary, and meaning -- Responding and the construction of meaning -- Writing and the construction of meaning -- Helping struggling readers -- Developing a management system for a comprehensive balanced literacy classroom -- Assessment and evaluation in the comprehensive balanced literacy classroom -- Good books and where to find them -- Handbook resource.