Scaffolding Literacy: An Integrated and Sequential Approach to Teaching, Reading, Spelling, and Writing

Scaffolding Literacy describes an alternative approach to literacy teaching in primary schools based on the principles of explicit teaching of how authors use words to convey meaning. The book provides a detailed description of the Scaffolding Literacy teaching sequence and related strategies developed at the University of Canberra over two decades. It explains why the Scaffolding Literacy approach enables learners to better understand the reading, language studies and writing tasks asked of them in school. [Publisher] Cover......Page 1 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 8 List of Figures......Page 10 About the Authors......Page 11 Preface......Page 12 Acknowledgements......Page 18 The scaffold as metaphore......Page 20 Learning to be literate......Page 28 Becoming members of a learning community......Page 36 Layers of meaning......Page 38 Reading: A complex high-order task......Page 42 Scaffolding reading: Getting started......Page 46 Assessing scaffolded reading: Miscue analysis......Page 68 Where are we in the teaching sequence?......Page 72 1 Transformations: Analysing sentence construtions and meaning......Page 74 Getting started with transformations......Page 79 2 Scaffolded spelling: Analysing word constructions......Page 90 Getting started with scaffolded spelling......Page 95 Moving on: Shared reconstructed writing......Page 101 Where are we in the teaching sequence?......Page 103 A Conclusion and a New Beginning......Page 121 References......Page 122 Scaffolding Literacy describes an alternative approach to literacy teaching in primary schools based on the principles of explicit teaching regarding how authors use words to convey meaning. The book provides a detailed description of the scaffolding literacy teaching sequence and related strategies developed at the University of Canberra (Australia) over two decades. It explains why the scaffolding literacy approach enables learners to understand the reading, language studies, and writing tasks assigned to them in schools better. This book "describes an alternative approach to literacy teaching in primary schools based on the principles of explicit teaching of how authors use words to convey meaning. The book provides a detailed description of the scaffolding literacy teaching sequence and related strategies developed at the University of Canberra over two decades. It explains why the scaffolding literacy approach enables learners to better understand the reading, language studies and writing tasks asked of them in school." - product description Annotation Scaffolding Literacy describes an alternative approach to literacy teaching in primary schools based on the principles of explicit teaching of how authors use words to convey meaning. The book provides a detailed description of the scaffolding literacy teaching sequence and related strategies developed at the University of Canberra over two decades. It explains why the scaffolding literacy approach enables learners to better understand the reading, language studies and writing tasks asked of them in school