Closing the Literacy Gap
Helping You to Close the Literacy Gap!\ At a time when so many pivotal education issues are closely tied to literacy and education policy, such as No Child Left Behind legislation, Tom Gunning provides critical insight into the key elements needed to close the literacy gap in America’s schools, from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade.\ Closing the Literacy Gap addresses the demands of the No Child Left Behind legislation and provides a wide range of recommendations and a great number of...
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At a time when so many pivotal education issues are closely tied to literacy and education policy, such as No Child Left Behind legislation, Tom Gunning provides critical insight into the key elements needed to close the literacy gap in America’s schools, from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade.Closing the Literacy Gap addresses the demands of the No Child Left Behind legislation and provides a wide range of recommendations and a great number of practical suggestions for closing the literacy gap. This much-awaited text builds from an early emphasis on creating a vision statement to implementing effective techniques and assessing for instruction. Unlike other texts, Gunning provides a coherent plan for program implementation that has proven to successfully close the literacy gap. The recommendations provided within the text are specific and detailed and are built on basic principles.
1The literacy gap12Programs that close the gap73The role of assessment in closing the gap214Building language355Building higher-level thinking skills and comprehension576Building background through informational reading and writing877Using extensive reading to close the gap998Phonological awareness and word analysis1179The effectiveness of affective factors14710Using added resources to close the gap15711Organizing to close the gap17512Creating a literacy improvement plan201
