Unlocking Literacy: Effective Decoding & Spelling Instruction

Henry, a teacher, diagnostician, tutor, teacher trainer, and retired special education professor at San Jose State U., provides a text for general and special educators of pre-K to middle school students on how to help them become skillful readers. She focuses on the skills of decoding and spelling, summarizes research in the areas, presents a brief history of written English, and describes the structure of English orthography. She then covers reading fundamentals and lesson planning, prerequisites for decoding and spelling, and sample lessons. Vocabulary, sentence structure, paragraph elements, and comprehension are not covered. This edition has 21 new activities. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)