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From the Back Cover Key Benefits: The text presents, in a clear, readable style, the current theories and techniques for creating a classroom reading program in elementary grades. Key Topics: There is strong coverage of the role of the basal reader and how to modify its use, the whole language perceptive and a integrated language arts curriculum, a teaching-strategies orientation to decoding, vocabulary, comprehension, studying, and writing, plus extensive discussion of emergent literacy, multicultural literature, metacognition, and holistic assessment. Market: Designed for use as a main text in elementary reading methods courses.