Teaching Reading in Today's Elementary Schools

by Betty D. Roe, Sandra H. Smith, Paul C. Burns

This market-leading text sets the standard for reading instruction to ensure that aspiring teachers are able to help students learn not only how to recognize words, but also how to comprehend their reading materials--and to enjoy the process. The book balances new approaches to reading, such as language arts integration and emergent literacy/literacy as a continuum, with more traditional foundations of strong skills and phonics instruction. Updated coverage in the Tenth Edition includes the latest uses of technology for literacy teaching and learning. This text's updated coverage and enhanced pedagogy, combined with HM Education Video Cases, provide an ideal way to help future teachers prepare for real life in the classroom.

Genres: Teaching

580 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 2004

Reviews

[☠︎︎༒︎✞︎ ѕℓιм ☠︎︎༒︎✞︎ · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read for my college, course class "Instructional practices for Reading Teachers". This book did give important information for the class I had to take, though I hated the course because it was just horrible.

[threeblindmiiice · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 ⭐

I read this for my reading class. It was really helpful for me and contributed much to my classroom this year. I think I would've enjoyed much more of this book if I didn't have to read 120+ pages every week. However, I also can argue that if it weren't a required reading, I wouldn't have finished it at all. Ha! I guess that's the advantage of reading it for a class. But I truly believe that this book is valuable for teachers of early grades to have better tools for how to teach reading. I would've loved to have a chapter specifically focusing on teaching reading to students with disabilities. But overall, it was an educational read and not as dry as I expected.

[Caroline · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was an approachable text with many helpful resources for putting the literacy concepts into practice. It worked well for my Elementary Literacy course. I appreciated the associated Instructor's Manual as this was my first time teaching this subject, and the tests and activities integrated nicely with our Brightspace system.