Effective Literacy Strategies for Students in Early Childhood and Elementary Classrooms

Teachers are often unsure which literacy strategies are most effective in responding to the needs, interests, and strengths of students in P-5 classrooms. This book serves as a concise and comprehensive guide to help P-5 teachers identify evidenced based strategies to use while teaching literacy skills, dispositions, and processes. This book covers a wide range of topics, such as: defining literacy in the 21st century, literacy assessment, emergent literacy, phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, language arts, and writing. This book provides brief references to literacy research, along with practical examples of how these concepts might be applied in the classroom. This book is a must-have reference for literacy teachers at all stages of their careers. Furthermore, this user-friendly book is designed to educate, equip, and empower literacy teachers with the knowledge, attitudes, and tactics needed to yield positive literacy outcomes in their respective classrooms.