First grade is a year of important new experiences for students and teachersalike. Some students will arrive knowing how to read others will know a fewletters o... » 

First grade is a year of important new experiences for students and teachersalike. Some students will arrive knowing how to read others will know a fewletters of the alphabet and most will be somewhere in between. Includingdozens of reproducibles this book guides firstgrade teachers in the manydecisions they face about how to orchestrate effective appropriate andengaging instruction. A special strength of the book is the authors deepunderstanding of the oral language base of literacy learningboth reading andwritingand their expertise in differentiating instruction for Englishlanguage learners. «