The literacy nexus: a Book List

Here is a list of books to think about when wanting to teach reading and writing together:


1.Strategies for Content Area Reading  by Jerry L. Johns and Roberta L. Berglund.Copyright 2006. 2nd Edition Kendall/Hunt

2. Reading Process and Practice by Constance Weaver 2002 3rd Edition Heinemann

3. Action Research A Guide for the Teacher Researcher 2nd Edition 2003

4. Portrait of America  Jerrold Hirsch  Copyright 2003 (good source for cross curriculum teaching).

5.Best Practices in Writing Instruction 2nd Edition edited Steve Graham
Charles McArthur, and jill Fitzgerald.  2013 The Guildford press

Reading the Basics

It would appear you have found my musings on the basics of reading.  One of the first things that you need to do is to introduce children to print, making sure to build the proper background to be able to understand print.

Second thing we want to teach is letter sound correspondence. These are the building the fundamentals to reading, understanding that print in English runs from left to write, that the sounds make phonemes and that phonemes make words.

Next is the print rich classroom.  You want to provide access to print with several kinds of materials, including paper and books.  You may want to make up silly words in order to make children want to sit and read. One of my favorite web authors named Shahan writes some pretty interesting stuff on literacy and balanced approaches.

Another blog I like to read is Teach Thought.  It gives 10 important ways to teach writing.

There once was a teacher named Laura Hume
Who wished to teach reading in her own classroom
She worked real hard and when it got down to it
Projects

were the way to do it