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Closing the Literacy Gap: Accelerating the Progress of Underperforming Students
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Gunning, Thomas G. – Guilford Press, 2022
Packed with practical tools, this book provides K-6 educators with a research-based framework for accelerating the reading and writing growth of underperforming students. Strategies and resources are included for building foundational skills, comprehension, and vocabulary; engaging students with independent reading and periodicals; developing…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Writing Instruction, Literacy, Achievement Gap
Reading Success for All Students: Using Formative Assessment to Guide Instruction and Intervention
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Gunning, Thomas G. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2011
This vital resource offers classroom teachers and literacy coaches practical assessments that can be used to evaluate key areas in students' reading performance. These assessments will provide information that can be directly used for planning instruction. Specific instructional techniques and activities are linked to each of the assessments so…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Reading Instruction, Intervention, Early Reading
Phonological Awareness and Primary Phonics. Grades K-2.
Gunning, Thomas G. – 2000
Intended for teachers of grades K-2, this book is a practical resource manual designed to provide step-by-step suggestions for assessing and instructing students' phonics skills and strategies. It presents phonological awareness as a foundation and preparation for phonics instruction and integrates the two so they become reciprocal. In addition,…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Class Activities, Decoding (Reading), Emergent Literacy
Best Books for Building Literacy for Elementary School Children.
Gunning, Thomas G. – 2000
This book arranges more than 900 children's books, both fiction and nonfiction, by school grade (one through six) and by difficulty level (easy, average, challenging), enabling teachers, librarians, and parents to have an extensive bibliography of interesting and worthwhile books for every child's interests and reading abilities. The book lists…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Literacy
Creating Literacy Instruction for All Children. Third Edition.
Gunning, Thomas G. – 2000
This book seeks to help teachers discover approaches and techniques that fit their particular teaching styles and their teaching situations. The book's aim is to present as fairly, completely, and clearly as possible the major approaches and techniques that research and practice have indicated to be successful. The book also presents the theories…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Creating Reading Instruction for All Children. Second Edition.
Gunning, Thomas G. – 1996
Helping teachers to discover approaches and techniques that fit their teaching style and their teaching situation, this book presents as fairly, completely, and clearly as possible the major approaches and techniques of reading instruction that research and practice have indicated to be successful. Based on the idea that the best reading programs…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Elementary Education, Emergent Literacy, Phonics