English Language Arts the Kindergarten Way

Educators Cochell and Fullmer enumerate strategies for teaching English language arts to kindergarten students. They integrate reading and writing skills and children’s interests and abilities, describing strategies that follow the progression of the school year. They detail how to build a literacy foundation through strategies like picture and word associations, teaching how to recognize and write letters, and rhythm, rhyme, and wordplay; how to engage students in reading and writing using strategies like building vocabulary and word games; how to teach reading and writing with purpose, using strategies like reading for information and entertainment, creative writing, and narrative writing; and how to help students keep track of their own learning. Chapters include several teaching strategies and lesson ideas, with instructions for classroom use, extension ideas, and reproducible activity sheets. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)