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Beginning to read : thinking and learning about print

Adams, Marilyn Jager1994
Books, Manuscripts
Proposes that phonics can work together with the whole language approach to teaching reading. Provides an integrated treatment of the knowledge & process involved in skillful reading, skills acquisition & the implications for reading instruction
Main title:
Beginning to read : thinking and learning about print / by Marilyn Jager Adams and the Reading Research and Education Center
Imprint:
Cambridge MA Massachussetts Institute of Technology 1994
Collation:
494 pages
Contents:
Putting word recognition into perspective -- Reading words and meaning: From an age-old problem to a contemporary crisis -- Why phonics? -- Program comparisons (And, by the way, what is phonics?) -- Research on pre-readers -- What needs to be taught? Hints from skilled readers -- Outside-in models of reading: What skilled readers look like they do -- Analyzing the reading process: Orthographic processing -- Analyzing the reading process: Use and uses of meaning -- Adding the phonological processor: How the whole system works together -- Thinking, learning and reading -- The nature of learning (Words or otherwise) -- On the goals of print instruction: What do we want students to learn? -- Learning how to read -- On teaching phonetics first -- Phonological prerequisites: Becoming aware of spoken words, syllables and phonemes -- Learning about print: The first steps -- To reading from writing -- The proper place of phonics
ISBN:
0262510766 (pbk)
Dewey class:
372.414 BEG
Local class:
372.414
Language:
English
BRN:
8056
LocationCollectionCall numberStatus/Desc
ResearchTech Book372.414 BEGAvailable
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