Improving Early Literacy offers teachers an arsenal of reading strategies for helping struggling emergent readers develop letter-name knowledge, sight word knowledge, phonics, and reading fluency skills. This book provides a comprehensive listing of various strategies incorporated into activities and worksheets and offers

• a practical introduction to early literacy instruction
• informal assessment devices based on proven research concepts
• approaches, strategies, and materials for teaching early literacy skills
• techniques for developing listening and oral language skills
• ways to assess and implement letter-name knowledge and sight word knowledge
• strategies for improving phonic analysis
• enhancement of structural and contextual analysis
• ways to expand vocabulary and comprehension
• techniques for teaching emergent literacy to children with special needs