Bridges to Reading, 3-6: Teaching Reading Skills with Children's Literature

ISBN-13: 9781563087592 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic Publication date: 04/15/1999 Series: Through Children's Literature Series Pages: 179 Product dimensions: 8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.40(d) Age Range: 8 - 11 Years Now you can use quality children's literature to teach traditional reading skills! Providing a balance between traditional and literature-based instruction, these books include stimulating and instructive lessons based on approximately 150 skills commonly found in basal readers. These lessons utilize a variety of strategies that can be applied to teaching myriad skills-from alphabet and alphabetization to word recognition skills. Each featured book includes a variety of activities and a list of related books. Semantic feature analysis, attribute charts, writing activities, problem-solving, genre analysis, wordplay, and phonetic analysis are just some of the strategies covered. Wonderful tools for enlivening reading instruction, these resources reconcile the need to teach basic