This established text and teacher resource is now in a revised and updated third edition, with a broader focus on whole-class instruction as well as small-group and individualized intervention. The evidence-based Interactive Strategies Approach (ISA) provides a clear framework for supporting literacy development in grades K-3, particularly for students who experience reading difficulties. The book gives teachers the knowledge needed to more effectively use existing curricular materials to meet core instructional goals in the areas of phonemic awareness, phonics, word solving/word learning, vocabulary and language skills, and comprehension.

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Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- About the Authors -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Theoretical and Practical Understandings of Early Literacy Learning and Instruction -- 1. Early Literacy Learning and the Interactive Strategies Approach -- 2. Responsive Instruction -- 3. Motivation to Read and Write -- Part II. Understanding Print and the English (Alphabetic) Writing System -- 4. Purposes, Concepts, and Conventions of Print -- 5. Phonemic Awareness -- 6. Letter Naming and Letter Formation -- 7. Letter-Sound (Grapheme-Phoneme) Relationships -- 8. The Alphabetic Principle and the Alphabetic Code: Early Development -- 9. Rimes and Word Families -- 10. The Alphabetic Principle and the Alphabetic Code: Later Development -- 11. Morphological Units and Multisyllabic Words -- Part III. Word Learning -- 12. Strategic Word Solving, Word Identification, and Word Learning -- 13. High-Frequency Word Learning and Word Identification -- Part IV. Meaning Construction -- 14. Text-Reading Fluency -- 15. Vocabulary and Oral Language Development -- 16. Comprehension and General Knowledge -- Part V. Integration of the Goals: Putting It All Together -- 17. Small-Group Instruction -- 18. Revisiting and Concluding -- Glossary -- References -- Index.