Description
– Building a Foundation for Beginning Readers and Writers
A Blueprint for Literacy Success is designed as a comprehensive resource for all teachers who want to help their students to get away to a good start with reading and writing. In our market-driven society, it is important that children be competent in reading, writing and speaking English. This valuable resource can help you to help your students achieve that competency. It is packed with practical ideas and innovative procedures that are developed from a strong theoretical base. It also contains activity suggestions to help children work in small groups or independently. Easy to read for the busy teacher, it contains reproducible blackline masters (also available digitally) to save valuable time.
A Blueprint for Literacy Success, at 128 pages and with abundant full colour, is a powerful teaching tool and one that can really help you to plan and budget your precious teaching time.
Digital Companion Page: www.otb.ie/9781906926014
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Sandra Iversen teaches a post-graduate course in the Psychology of Reading and Reading Remediation at Massey University. She previously taught graduate and undergraduate courses in Reading, Language Arts and Professional Practice at the Auckland College of Education. She has written many children’s books, teacher reference guides and academic articles and has made several videos for teacher education. She has presented extensively at national and international reading conferences. Sandra is currently consultant to various school districts in the United States and serves on the editorial board of The Reading Teacher, the Journal of Balanced Reading Instruction and book publications for the International Reading Association. In 1990/1991, she spent two years as a visiting professor in Rhode Island, setting up Reading Recovery there and in parts of Massachusetts and Connecticut. Prior to this she worked as a Reading Adviser, a Reading Recovery Tutor and a classroom teacher. Sandra spent the 1994/1995 US academic year in Florida developing and implementing an early literacy intervention for “at risk” children from minority cultures.