Improving Early Literacy

Improving Early Literacy offers teachers an arsenal of reading strategies for helping struggling emergent readers develop letter-name knowledge, sight word knowledge, phonics, and reading fluency skills. This book provides a comprehensive listing of various strategies incorporated into activities and worksheets and offers a practical introduction to early literacy instruction informal assessment devices based on proven research concepts approaches, strategies, and materials for teaching early literacy skills techniques for developing listening and oral language skills ways to assess and implement letter-name knowledge and sight word knowledge strategies for improving phonic analysis enhancement of structural and contextual analysis ways to expand vocabulary and comprehension techniques for teaching emergent literacy to children with special needs