50 Literacy Strategies: Step-by-Step

by Gail Tompkins

Overview

The new edition of 50 Literacy Strategies: Step by Step by Gail E. Tompkins is a conveniently organized resource for all elementary and middle school teachers, providing research-based and classroom-tested strategies to develop literacy skills. Everything you need to know to implement, adapt, and enrich each strategy is included in a consistent, easy-to-understand format.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780132944915
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	04/25/2012
Series:	Books by Gail Tompkins
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 10.70(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Gail Tompkins I’m a teacher, first and foremost. I began my career as a first-grade teacher in Virginia in the 1970s. I remember one first grader who cried as the first day of school was ending. When I tried to comfort him, he sobbed accusingly, “I came to first grade to learn to read and write and you forgot to teach me.” The next day, I taught that child and his classmates to read and write! We made a small patterned book about one of the stuffed animals in the classroom. I wrote some of the words and the students supplied the others, and I duplicated copies of the book for each child. We practiced reading it until everyone memorized our little book. The children proudly took their books home to read to their parents. I’ve never forgotten that child’s comment and what it taught me: Teachers must understand their students and meet their expectations.

My first few years of teaching left me with more questions than answers, and I wanted to become a more effective teacher so I started taking graduate courses. In time I earned a master’s degree and then a doctorate in Reading/Language Arts, both from Virginia Tech. Through my graduate studies, I learned a lot of answers, but more importantly, I learned to keep on asking questions.

Then I began teaching at the university level. First I taught at Miami University in Ohio, then at the University of Oklahoma, and finally at California State University, Fresno. I’ve taught preservice teachers and practicing teachers working on master’s degrees, and I’ve directed doctoral dissertations. I’ve received awards for my teaching, including the Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching at California State University, Fresno, and I was inducted into the California Reading Association’s Reading Hall of Fame. Throughout the years, my students have taught me as much as I taught them. I’m grateful to all of them for what I’ve learned.

I’ve been writing college textbooks for more than 20 years, and I think of the books I write as teaching, too. I’ll be teaching you as you read this text. As I write a book, I try to anticipate the questions you might ask and provide that information. I also include students’ samples so you can see concepts that I’m explaining, and I include lists of trade books that you can refer to as you work with students.

Table of Contents

1. “All About ...” Books

2. Alphabet Books

3. Anticipation Guides

4. Author’s Chair

5. Book Boxes

6. Book Talks

7. Choral Reading

8. Clusters

9. Collaborative Books

10. Cubing

11. Data Charts

12. Double-Entry Journals

13. Exclusion Brainstorming

14. Gallery Walks

15. Goldilocks Strategy

16. Grand Conversations

17. Guided Reading

18. Hot Seat

19. Interactive Read-Alouds

20. Interactive Writing

21. K-W-L Charts

22. Language Experience Approach

23. Learning Logs

24. Making Words

25. Minilessons

26. Open-Mind Portraits

27. Plot Profiles

28. Possible Sentences

29. Prereading Plan

30. Process Drama

31. Question-Answer-Relationships

32. Questioning the Author

33. Quickwrites

34. Quilts

35. RAFT

36. Readers Theatre

37. Reading Logs

38. Revising Groups

39. Rubrics

40. Shared Reading

41. Sketch-to-Stretch

42. SQ4R

43. Story Boards

44. Story Retelling

45. Sustained Silent Reading

46. Tea Party

47. Venn Diagrams

48. Word Ladders

49. Word Sorts

50. Word Walls

Editorial Reviews

My students usually keep this text. This book is captivating to students as they report that it encourages them to think from various perspectives. It is not a "recipe" type book but it contains helpful text lists, assessments and reproducible materials.

Angela J. Cox, Georgetown College

There are so many strategies available, hte ones listed in the book are some of the major anc successful strategies. The Instructional Focus helps to narrow down strategies to what the students wan tto build their lessons about. Grade Level Designation is very useful, allowing students to make sure they are using appropriate grade-level strategies.

Deborah A. H. Williams, Wayne State University

The strategies are the essential ones I would expect and do use in my course. English Language Learner features are a criticalcomponent becaue few (if any)f my students have had any interaction with ELLs and need significant help understanding second language literacy.

Charlotte L. Pass, SUNY Cortland

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