Teaching the Decoding Triangle: A Developmental Approach to Early Literacy Instruction [Hardcover]

Introduction

Chapter 1: Evidence versus Philosophy

Chapter 2: From Text to Speech to Understanding

Chapter 3: Theories of Reading

Chapter 4: Reading as a Developmental Continuum

Chapter 5: The Decoding Triangle

Chapter 6: The Pre-Alphabetic Phase

Chapter 7: The Partial Alphabetic Phase

Chapter 8: The Full Alphabetic Reading

Chapter 9: The Consolidated Alphabetic Reading

Epilogue

This textbook uses Ehris Reading Phases to explore the fundamental components of word reading to detail a developmental approach to reading instruction that prioritizes the individual reader.?Readers will come away with an up-to-date knowledge of how reading occurs and the skills necessary to implement effective instruction.?

David D. Paige is Professor of Literacy and Director of the Jerry L. Johns Literacy Clinic at Northern Illinois University, USA. He is a co-author of Artfully Teaching the Science of Reading and The Reading Stewards Handbook.

This textbook uses Ehris reading phases to explore the fundamental components of word reading to detail a developmental approach to reading instruction that prioritizes the individual reader. Drawing on decades of research, Paige breaks down the science of reading and presents three fundamental concepts to teaching reading effectively:

• Children differ in the rate at which they master reading skills
• A teacher deeply knowledgeable in the fundamentals of reading is irreplaceable
• Awareness that teaching is an art as well as a science

Readers will come away with an up-to-date knowledge of how reading occurs and the skills necessary to implement effective instl3.