Keys to Literacy Instruction for the NET Generation: Grades 4 to 12 opens links to assessment and engaging cognitive strategy instruction with cutting-edge Net Resources. Educational administrators, upper grades, and secondary teachers learn how to critically integrate and differentiate reading and writing instruction across the content areas through student choice and motivating opportunities on the Internet.
Keys to Literacy Instruction for the NET Generation: Grades 4 to 12 provides teachers with:
- keys for critical literacy
- contextual fluency
- word building
- vocabulary
- comprehension instruction
- essential frameworks for progress monitoring.
The Literacy CLOUD Progress Monitoring Map provides educators with a tool for assessment and creative instruction that focuses on students’ interests and goals. Confidence-building Mastermind Hubs are also introduced for collaborative development of student organization and the review of content area literacy to enhance long-term learning throughout the year.
This reader-friendly book provides analysis and synthesis of literacy integration for professional networking. It features engaging, research-based, practical methods for saving time in the classroom as teachers connect literacy strategies with the Common Core State Standards. The authors highlight critical literacy, literature, and motivating methods for integrating technology to enhance literacy development and promote successful lifelong learning for the NET generation.
Acknowledgements
Meet the Authors
1 Views of Reading, Literacy Strategies, and Technology for Engaging and Eff ective Teaching: Embracing Teacher and Parent Involvement
2 Keys for Essential Foundations for Emergent Literacy Development: A Comprehensive View of the Relationship Between the Alphabetic Principle, Concepts of Print, Phonological Awareness, Word Analysis, and Language Comprehension
3 Keys for Word Recognition and Comprehension for Active Reading, Spelling, and Writing
4 Keys for Teaching Vocabulary Knowledge and Morphological Awareness: Bridges for Word Recognition and Comprehension
5 Keys for Increasing Higher-Level Reading Proficiency: Cognitive Strategies and Comprehension
6 Keys for the Linking Bridges Between Word Recognition and Comprehension: Reading Fluency, Self-regulation, and Literacy Assessment
7 Section I: The Writing Workshop: Giving Voice to the Silenced
By Tammie Ogletree and Jennifer Allen
Section II: Evidence-Based Writing Research, Strategies, and Engaging Discussion Dialogues
By Elaine Roberts and Debra Coffey
8 Section I: Keys for Digital Literacy for Twenty-First-Century Learners
By Stacy Delacruz
Section II: Professional Development Tools for Graduating Students Who Are Confident, Skilled Readers and Writers
References
Index
Elaine
Roberts
Dr. Elaine Roberts is an associate professor of Reading Education at the University of West Georgia in the College of Education Department of Collaboration, Intervention and Support. She was a leader in the development of the Reading Endorsement for the state of Georgia and has written articles in peer reviewed journals as well as presented at numerous conferences, state-wide, regionally, nationally and internationally. Her main areas of interest include cultural responsiveness, word recognition and comprehension, and literacy progress monitoring across the content areas. She was a university reading clinic supervisor and has taught first and fourth grade and high school. She enjoys working as a literacy consultant.
Debra
Coffey
Dr. Debra J. Coffey is an associate professor of Literacy and Language Instruction in the Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education in the Bagwell College of Education at Kennesaw State University. During regional, national, and international conferences, she shares innovations from teaching experiences across the spectrum from preschool to the university level. She has written widely about literacy strategies, and she co-authored the book Unlocking the Power of Language: Research-Based Strategies for Language Development. As an academic lead coach, mentor, and co-advisor for student organizations, she conducts outreach programs and literacy projects for partnership schools in Nigeria, Belize, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Ecuador.