Striking a Balance: A Comprehensive Approach to Early Literacy 4th Edition

"Striking a Balance: A comprehensive Approach to Early Literacy" is very "comprehensive" indeed. It is a thick book of 457 pages and so it requires a good amount of time to read through, take notes and digest. The textbook gives in-depth details to help children read. The book covers theories on reading aquistion. You will also find systems covered such as the: grapho-phonological, syntatic, semantic, pragmatic systems and more. The textbook covers how students may aquire sight vocabulary and looks at how a teacher can use a holistic approach. Teachers will be advised as to how to use drama and theater to help develop fluency. Assement data is included. Be prepared to read, study and digest! The book is thick and heavy to carry around but helpful. One may be able to find it online?

My husband bought this as a required text for his CA teaching credential. I needed to do some research for a 4-skills series I was planning for a publishing company and my husband recommended this book. It was very informative about how children learn to read and how to develop literacy in younger learners. It gave me the background knowledge I needed for the reading skill aspect of my series: what works and what to be aware of. Would recommend it to anyone interested in developing literacy in children.

Great Book

Wonderful!

It was exactly what I needed for my Education class. The book was in excellent condition at a reasonable price.

Its ok.Thank you

the book was in good conditions

This was very readable and had a lot of fantastic literary ideas for teaching, especially students identified as ELL.

I can use this book much for school, it helps me to learn about children what I need to learn