The Language Experience Approach and the Science of Literacy Instruction

The information contained in this text covers kindergarten, primary grades, middle school, and secondary school. It presents a balanced body of information for instruction between wholistic approaches and traditional approaches for the total literacy curriculum. This book includes the complete developmental aspects of skills necessary for competence in all literacy tasks from birth to adolescent literacy, the need for availability for teachers to assess the progress of all of these skills as they are presented in a wholistic fashion on a regular basis, the criteria of how decisions are made for remedial reading instruction, the interface of special education considerations for students experiencing literacy challenges, approaches for adolescent literacy programs, and abundant information on teaching English language learners.  Two chapters are devoted to the writing process. The first one explains the necessary information which is a prerequisite to writing, and the second examines all