Scaffolding literacy an integrated and sequential approach to teaching reading, spelling and writing /

• Main Author: Axford, Beverly.
• Other Authors: Harders, Pamela., Wise, Fay.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Camberwell, Vic. : ACER Press, 2009.
• Subjects: Literacy > Study and teaching.; English language > Study and teaching.; Literacy.; FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > English as a Second Language.; Electronic books.
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Scaffolding Literacy describes an alternative approach to literacy teaching in primary schools based on the principles of explicitly teaching how authors use words to convey meaning. The book provides a detailed description of the scaffolding literacy teaching sequence and related strategies develop...

Table of Contents:

• Cover; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; About the Authors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction
• Why Scaffold Literacy Learning?; The scaffold as metaphore; Learning to be literate; Becoming members of a learning community; Layers of meaning; Part A
• Scaffolded Reading: Modelling Meaning-Making; Reading: A complex high-order task; Scaffolding reading: Getting started; Assessing scaffolded reading: Miscue analysis; Part B
• Which Words? The Joint Analysis of Sentence and Word Constructions; Where are we in the teaching sequence?