Literacy in the Early Grades: A Successful Start for PreK-4 Readers and Writers, 5th edition

1. Becoming an Effective Teacher of Reading
2. Examining Students’ Literacy Development
3. Assessing Students’ Literacy Development
4. Cracking the Alphabetic Code
5. Learning to Spell
6. Developing Fluent Readers and Writers
7. Building Students’ Vocabulary
8. Teaching Comprehension: Reader Factors
9. Facilitating Students’ Comprehension: Text Factors
10. Scaffolding Students’ Reading Development
11. Scaffolding Students’ Writing Development
12. Integrating Literacy into Thematic Units

Following Chapter 12 is the Compendium of Instructional Procedures which includes step-by-step instructions for implementing the evidence-based strategies presented throughout the text.