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| Each chapter begins with ldquo;Chapter Openerrdquo; | |
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| ldquo; A literacy storyrdquo; and concludes with | |
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| ldquo;Practical Teaching Ideas and Activities,rdquo | |
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| ldquo;Reflection and summary,rdquo; | |
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| ldquo;Questions to Challenge Your Thinking,rdquo | |
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| ldquo;A Case Study,rdquo | |
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| ldquo;Return to the Anticipation Guide,rdquo | |
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| ldquo;References.rdquo | |
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| Foundations and Approaches to Teaching the Language Arts | |
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| A Philosophy For Teaching the Language Arts | |
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| Integrating the Language Arts | |
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| Literature Based Language Arts | |
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| The Influential Teacher | |
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| 5A The Promise of Technology | |
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| Three Approaches to Language Arts Instruction | |
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| Organizing Learning Environments: Language, Learning, and Diversity | |
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| Intellectual, Therapeutic and Cultivated Environments | |
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| Classroom Management | |
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| Creating Physically Inviting Environments | |
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| 4A Environments For Developing Language, Thinking, and Meaning | |
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| Environments Where Diversity Flourishes | |
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| Assessing Writing and Reading | |
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| Three Types of Assessment | |
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| Principles of Assessment | |
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| Assessing Writing | |
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| Assessing Reading | |
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| Standards, High stakes Testing, Accountability, and the Curriculum | |
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| Listening and Talking | |
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| Listening | |
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| Talking | |
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| Emerging Literacy | |
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| Reading-Writing Relationship | |
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| Literacy in the Home | |
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| Emergent Writing Concepts | |
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| Emergent Reading Concepts | |
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| Assessing Emergent Reading and Writing | |
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| Six Conclusions About Emergent Literacy | |
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| Literature and Literacy | |
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| 1A The Value of Literature | |
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| Qualities, Quirks, and Issues in Children's Literature | |
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| Literary Elements | |
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| Genres of Literature | |
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| 5A Response to Literature | |
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| 6A Libraries and Children's Literature | |
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| Reading Literature to Children | |
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| The Story Teller's Art | |
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| Content Literacy: Reading and Writing in the Content Areas | |
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| Reading in the Content Areas | |
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| Writing in the Content Areas | |
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| Teaching Children to Comprehend Written Text | |
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| Defining Comprehension | |
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| Factors Influencing Comprehension | |
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| Four Underlying Comprehension Components | |
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| Thinking About the Commonly Named Comprehension Skills | |
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| Comprehension Strategies: Before, During, and After Reading | |
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| 6A The Role of Question Asking in Reading | |
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| 7A Guided Reading | |
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| 8A Helping Struggling Readers | |
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| Word Study: Word Recognition, Dictionary, and Vocabulary Knowledge | |
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| Word Recognition | |
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| Dictionary Skills | |
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| Vocabulary | |
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| Writing Process in a Workshop Environment | |
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| Graves' Writing Principles | |
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| Writing Process Stages | |
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| Writing Workshop | |
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| Poetry for Children | |
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| Preparing Children for Poetry | |
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| Responding to Children's Poetry | |
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| Sources of Inspiration for Writing Poetry | |
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| The Language and Technical Devices of Poetry | |
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| 5A Forms for Creating Poetry | |
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| The Mechanics of Writing: Grammar, Punctuation, Capitalization, and Handwriting | |
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| Grammar | |
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| Punctuation and Capitalization | |
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| Handwriting | |
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| The Spelling Connection: Integrating Reading, Writing, and Spelling | |
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| Integrating Reading, Writing, and Spelling Instruction | |
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| Stages of Spelling Growth | |
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| Approaches to Teaching Spelling | |
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| Strategies for Teaching and Learning Spelling | |
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| Instructional Issues | |
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| Selecting Spelling Words | |
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| Invented Spelling | |
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| Assessing Spelling | |