Pinnell, Gay Su

Presents a comprehensive curriculum program designed to help teachers of grades three through eight help their students develop as readers, writers, and language users, with resources for planning, assessment, evaluation, discussion, and trouble shooting.

Offers teachers and curriculum coordinators an overview of the literacy development of students in kindergarten through eighth grade, explaining who students can do as readers, writers, and language users at specific stages.

Presents a comprehensive curriculum program designed to help teachers of prekindergarten through second grade aid in their students' development as readers, writers, and language users, with resources for planning, assessment, evaluation, discussion, and trouble shooting.

Presents resources for teachers to use in conjunction with "Phonics Lessons," for Kindergarten, including games, templates, word cards, an assessment guide, a month-by-month planning guide, and a lesson selection map.

Contains one hundred mini-lessons for teaching phonics to students in second grade, covering letter/sound relationships, spelling patterns, high frequency words, word meaning and structure, and word-solving actions, and includes a rationale for teaching phonics, as well as a selection of teaching resources, including games, templates, word cards, and an assessment guide.

Offers reading teachers effective strategies for helping students in kindergarten through third grade overcome reading and writing difficulties and become proficient readers.

Explains how to create literacy programs for K-3 students that focus on letters, sounds, and words, discussing the theory of word study and providing instructions and practical tools for reading and writing skills.

Looks at the most effective ways to use books in the upper elementary classroom, explores the concept of a text gradient and the process of leveling books, and identifies six thousand fiction and nonfiction books for students in grades three through six, arranged by title, difficulty level, and genre.