Tompkins, Gail E. <br/><br/>
Literacy for the 21st century :  a balanced approach / 
 Literacy for the twenty-first century 
Gail E. Tompkins. 
 - 4th ed. 
 - Upper Saddle River, NJ :  Pearson Education/Merrill/Prentice Hall,  c2006. 
 - xxi, 537 p. :  col. ill. ;  26 cm. +  1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Pt.1. What is a balanced approach to literacy instruction -- Becoming an effective teacher of reading -- Teaching the reading and writing processes -- Pt. 2. How do children learn to read and write? -- Working with young readers and writers -- Cracking the alphabetic code -- Developing fluent readers and writers -- Expanding students' knowledge of words -- Facilitating students' comprehension: reader factors -- Facilitating students' comprehension: text factors -- Assessing students' literacy development -- Pt. 3. How do teachers organize literacy instruction? -- Teaching with basal reading textbooks -- Teaching literature focus units -- Orchestrating literature circles -- Implementing reading and writing workshop -- Reading and writing in the content areas -- Pt. 4. Compendium of instructional procedures. 
<br/><br/><br/>System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: Windows 95 or higher/Macintosh. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0131190768 9780131190764 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2004060129 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Language arts (Elementary)<br/>Literature--Study and teaching (Elementary)<br/>Reading (Elementary)<br/>Literacy.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>LB1576  / .T657 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>372.6