Language And Literacy Learning In Schools

Download or read book Language and Literacy Learning in Schools written by Elaine R. Silliman and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2007-01-10 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accessible and user-friendly, this volume presents evidence-based practices for integrating language and literacy knowledge to enhance children's learning in today's standards-based classrooms. While grounded in theory and research, the book focuses on day-to-day concerns in instruction and intervention, identifying models for effective collaboration among speech-language pathologists, general and special educators, and reading specialists. Chapters cover a range of approaches for targeting core areas of literacy--word recognition, reading comprehension, writing, and spelling--with particular attention to working with students with language learning difficulties.