Bridges to Reading, 3-6: Teaching Reading Skills with Children's Literature, Vol. 2

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Author: Suzanne I. Barchers

ISBN-10: 1563087596

ISBN-13: 9781563087592

Category: Elementary Education

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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 skills with the desire to use children's literature. Booknews Reading lessons based on popular titles, most published in the 1990s, use children's literature to teach basic skills usually found in the third through sixth grade curriculum. Each lesson summarizes a book for use in teaching a particular skill, then presents activities using a variety of teaching strategies. Lessons are included on literary elements, parts of speech, and word recognition. Many activities integrate other subjects, such as geography and oral delivery. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)