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Title Learning to read : lessons from exemplary first-grade classrooms / Michael Pressley ... [et al.].

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Guilford Press, c2001.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  372.4 L479 2001    ---  Available
Description xii, 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series Solving problems in the teaching of literacy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents pt. 1. First grade : history and contemporary practice. A brief history of first-grade reading instruction -- Surveying nominated-effective first-grade teachers about their instruction -- The nature of first-grade instruction that promotes literacy achievement.
Teaching writing in the first grade : instruction, scaffolds, and expectations / Ruth Wharton-McDonald -- pt. 2. Case studies. Barbara Wiesner / Michael Pressley -- Andy Schultheis / Ruth Wharton-McDonald -- Georgia Leyden / Kim Baker, Richard L. Allington, Greg Brooks -- Missy Allen / Cathy Collins Block -- Patricia Loden / Lesley Mandel Morrow, Elizabeth Brown Asbury -- pt. 3. Thoughts about teacher development. How I became an exemplary teacher (although I'm really still learning just like anyone else) / Jeni Pollack Day.
Subject Reading (Primary) -- Case studies.
First grade (Education) -- Case studies.
Added Author Pressley, Michael.
ISBN 1572306483 (hbk. : alk. paper)
1572306491 (pbk.)

 
    
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