Authors: Margaret Moustafa
ISBN-13: 9780435072476, ISBN-10: 0435072471
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Heinemann
Date Published: September 1997
Edition: 1st Edition
MARGARET MOUSTAFA is a Professor of Education at California State University at Los Angeles. She is an experienced elementary school teacher and author of Beyond Traditional Phonics: Research Discoveries and Reading Instruction (Heinemann, 1997), "Children's productive phonological recoding" ( Reading Research Quarterly , 1995), and co-author of " Whole-to-parts phonics instruction: Building on what children know to help them know more" ( Reading Teacher , 1999). Using the research findings of other scholars as well as her own research findings on how children learn a phonic system, she developed whole-to-parts phonics instruction as a powerful, systematic, explicit way of teaching children a phonic system which is compatible with their natural cognitive processes.
Margaret Moustafa fills you in on exciting new research discoveries of how children learn to read and relates these discoveries to reading instruction.
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction | ||
1 | Our Traditional Assumptions About How Children Learn to Read | 1 |
2 | Problems with Our Traditional Assumptions About How Children Learn Letter-Sound Correspondences | 8 |
3 | How Children Use Language to Figure Out Unfamiliar Print Words | 14 |
4 | The Groan Zone | 32 |
5 | How Children Use Their Knowledge of Spoken Sounds to Pronounce Unfamiliar Print | 41 |
6 | How Children Use Their Knowledge of the World to Make Sense of Print | 57 |
7 | How Children Use Their Knowledge About Reading to Read | 71 |
8 | Beyond Traditional Phonics | 85 |
Epilogue: Beyond the Groan Zone | 95 | |
References | 97 | |
Index | 105 |