Reading As Communication: To Help Children Write and Read

PART ONE. 1. The Developmental View of Literacy Cultivation: Successful Teachers Understand How Learners Become Literate. 2. The Environmental View of Literacy Cultivation: Successful Teachers Create a Classroom Community in Which Collaboration and Literacy Go Hand in Hand. 3. The Process View of Literacy Cultivation: Successful Teachers Understand the Nature of Reading and Writing. PART TWO. 4. Comprehension: Developing the Spirit of Fluency and Inferential Thinking. 5. Increasing Fluency and Comprehension Through Sight Vocabulary. 6. Graphophonic Awareness: The Sight Vocabularys Companion on the Route to Fluency and Comprehension. 7. A Constructivist Approach to Conceptual Vocabulary Growth. 8. Comprehension: Teacher Methods and Student Strategies. PART THREE. 9. Literature: Responses, Choices, Book Clubs and Literature Circles. 10. Writing: A Vital Connection to Self, Reading and Literacy. 11. The New Basal Programs: Making Use of Their Advantages Compensating for Their Disadvantages Deciding Whether to Use Them. PART FOUR. 12. Guiding Children Toward Self-Assessment: A Performance Point of View. 13. Enhancing the Comprehensive and Enjoyment of Informational Text. 14. Growth in Literacy: In A Multicultural, Multiability Classroom. 15. Management of a Classroom Literacy Program, Tending the Six Cs (A Caring, Communicating, Collaborative, Client-Centered Community).