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*A bestseller since its initial release, now updated: includes a new chapter, new research, and updates throughout.
*Pressley and Allington are both preeminent literacy scholars.
*New chapter shows how balanced teaching unites both skills-emphasis and meaning-emphasis approaches.
*Renowned authorship and integrative approach are among the qualities that make this a perennial favorite.
. -Thoroughly defines and describes each type of instruction before showing how successful classrooms provide teacher support as children apply the skills they are learning. (on the third edition)--Curriculum Connections, 04/01/2007ffA valuable resource of significant information and viewpoints about the nature of the reading act, the essential aspects of learning to read and of not learning to read, and the processes needed to transform reading education in our elementary schools today. (on the second edition)--Teachers College Record, 02/01/2014
Introduction to the Fourth Edition, Richard L. Allington
Introduction to the Third Edition, Michael Pressley
1. Skills Emphasis, Meaning Emphasis, and Balanced Reading Instruction: A Short History
2. Skilled Reading
3. Children Who Experience Problems in Learning to Read
4. Before Reading Words Begins
5. Learning to Recognize Words
6. Fluency
7. Vocabulary
8. Expert Literacy Teaching in the Primary Grades, with Ruth Wharton-McDonald
9. The Need for Increased Comprehension Instruction
10. Motivation and Literacy
11. Concluding Reflections
Appendix: Landmarks in Development of Literacy Competence (or, What Happens When)
Author Index
Subject Index