Striking a Balance

A Comprehensive Approach to Early Literacy
7. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-041-20031-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 550 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 280 mm

Now in its seventh edition, Striking a Balance has been revised to align with current contexts, providing educators with a comprehensive framework for effective early literacy instruction grounded in the five essential components of reading: comprehension, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and phonemic awareness. This edition clearly illustrates how to create a structured literacy program that emphasizes explicit skills instruction while maintaining rich and varied reading and writing experiences.

Questions for journal writing and discussion, dynamic activities, vignettes, valuable appendices, and rich online resources provide a variety of effective instructional resources, selected based on research and teacher testimonials. The seventh edition incorporates updates throughout including information about the responsible use of AI and expanded guidance for working effectively with English learners and children with special needs, as well as how to communicate effectively with parents of all children.

An essential resource for students training to become early literacy instructors, this textbook’s practical approach demonstrates how children develop authentic literacy skills through systematic, explicit instruction within motivating contexts—preparing educators to effectively teach all students to read and write with confidence.

Online instructor and student resources can be found here: www.routledge.com/9781041200314

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cecil, Nancy Lee

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Literatur, Deutsch, Fremdsprachen (Unterricht & Didaktik)
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Alphabetisierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Kindergarten & Vorschule

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. A Child Learns to Read: Process and Product 2. A Quest for Balance: Moving Forward 3. Emergent Literacy: From Birth to Conventional Literacy 4. Phonemic Awareness: The Sounds of Our Language 5. Phonics, Sight Vocabulary, and Fluency: Why and How 6. Spelling: A Writer’s Tool 7. Acquiring Word Meanings: The Building Blocks of Literacy 8. Reading Comprehension: Making Sense of Print 9. Writing-Reading Connections: Reciprocal Paths to Literacy 10. Informational Text in the Classroom: Reading and Writing to Learn 11. Large- and Small-Group Reading Strategies: Creating a Literate Community 12. Literacy and Technology in a Balanced Classroom: Exploring Today’s Resources 13. Assessment of Early Literacy Development: Informing Instruction 14. Home as Partner: The Shared Connection 15. The Early Literacy Classroom Appendices

Über Autor(innen)

Nancy Lee Cecil is Professor Emeritus in the College of Education at California State University, Sacramento, USA.