K-8 Instructional Methods:A Literacy PerspectiveDescription |
This general methods text presents the preservice teacher educator with relevant instructional methods, strategies, and techniques to help develop an understanding of how literacy instruction impacts the entire K-8 curriculum. Students' success in school, particularly in these days of vigorous academic standards and high-stakes testing, is related to their abilities to read, comprehend, analyze, and reflect through critical thinking, writing, and computer interactions. The text is organized in a realistic and easy-to-use format, offering ideas for integrating theory with practice to improve the teaching and learning process. The authors demonstrate solid instructional practices that emphasize reading and related literacy development through the content areas in each grade-K-8. The text also examines the impact that reading and literacy development have had upon diversity and multiculturalism, special learners, at-risk and economically disadvantaged students, and technology and computers. |
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- A strong literacy focus shows how differing forms of literacy-listening, speaking, reading, writing, artistic representation, and computer interactions-are used and integrated across grade levels and content subjects (Chs. 2, 3, 11 & 12).
- Includes coverage of how standards and high-stakes testing have made an impact on the overall curriculum and instructional methods in literacy (Chs. 4 & 13).
- Explores various types of instructional approaches, including questioning, problem-solving, discussion, practice, and scaffolding.
- In-depth discussion of classroom instructional environments includes whole group, small group, and individualized instruction and differentiated instruction for special needs learners (Chs. 8-9).
- Useful pedagogy includes “Focusing Questions;” “Tips for Teachers;” “Things to Do;” “Questions to Consider;” and “Recommended Readings.”
- Emphasizes various types of formal and informal assessment approaches and accentuates performance, authentic, portfolio and teacher-made tests and how these connect to instruction (Ch. 13).
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Table of Contents |
1. Theories of Learning.
Behaviorism.Cognitive Learning.Moral Learning.Brain Research and Learning
2. Language and Literacy.
The Viewing, Listening, and Speaking Connection.The Reading and Writing Connection.Visual and Artistic Representation.The Electronic Literacy Age.
3. Word Acquisition and Understanding.
Understanding the World of Words.The Written Language System.Word Identification Through Symbol-Sound Associations.Developing Word Meaning.
4. Instructional Goals, Objectives, and Standards.
Aims.Goals.Standards.Objectives.Formulating Goals, Standards, and Objectives.
5. Curriculum Design.
Curriculum Frameworks.Curriculum Design.Curriculum Design Approaches.The Planned and Unplanned Curriculums.
6. Instructional Planning.
Planning for Instruction.Unit Plan Development.The Daily Lesson Plan.Lesson Plan Components.Sample Schedules and Lesson Plans.A Creativity Lesson Plan.
7. Instructional Methods.
Explanation and Discussion.Questioning.Problem Solving.Practice, Drill, and Review.The Scaffolding Model of Instruction.
8. School-Wide Organization for Instruction.
Factors Influencing Organizational Patterns.School-Wide Practices.Accommodations for Students with Special Needs.
9. Classroom Patterns of Instruction.
Whole-Group Instruction.Small-Group Instruction.Individualized Instruction.
10. Improving Teachers.
The Science Versus the Art of Teaching.Review of the Research on Teaching.Teacher Styles.Teacher Characteristics.Teacher Contexts: New Research, New Paradigms.Reconceptualizing Teaching.
11. Strategies for Literature and Informational Sources.
Experience as a Prime Concept Resource.Instructional Tasks and Student Understandings.Understanding Text.How Text Is Organized.Literature-Based Strategies.Informational-Source Strategies.
12. The Selection and Use of Instructional Resources.
Selecting Instructional Resources and Materials.Traditional Print and Book Sources.Technological Aids and Instructional Media.
13. Assessing and Evaluating Students.
Standardized Tests.Criterion-Reference Tests.Authentic Assessment.High-Stakes Testing.Teacher-Made Tests.Communicating Test Results.Using Tests to Inform Instructional Decisions. |
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