Reading and Learning to Read

With its balanced approach to reading instruction, Reading and Learning to Read, Fifth Edition, remains a comprehensive, active learning tool that encourages students to teach reading in ways that are both meaningful and reflective. This text continues to promote a contemporary, balanced approach to teaching reading and writing with a renewed emphasis on integrating technology, accommodating the needs of diverse learners, and teaching the middle school young adolescent. Given the increasingly focused interest on literacy standards in the teaching of reading world wide, this edition also highlights practical examples and references that exemplify the IRA Standards for Reading Professionals. The standards as they apply to each chapter are listed at the begining of each chapter. User-friendly marginal icons highlight each of these new features, making them easy to locate for classroom discussion.Vacca, Jo Anne L. is the author of 'Reading and Learning to Read', published 2002 under ISBN 9780205361113 and ISBN 0205361110.