Preface
Acknowledgments
Setting Standards in the English Language Arts
Introduction
Standards in the English Language Arts
Section I. Essential Strategies For Teaching Phonemic Awareness
Section II. Essential Strategies For Teaching Phonics
Section III. Essential Strategies For Teaching Reading Fluency
Section IV. Essential Strategies For Teaching Vocabulary
Section V. Essential Strategies For Teaching Story Comprehension
Section VI. Essential Strategies For Comprehension of Informational Text
Section VII. Essential Strategies For Teaching Questioning For Understanding
Section VIII. Essential Strategies Teaching Discussion For Understanding
Section IX. Essential Strategies Teaching Narrative Writing
Section X. Essential Strategies For Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum
Index
About the Authors

Catherine O’Callaghan is a professor of Education and Chair of the Education Department at Western Connecticut State University. She entered the teaching profession as a classroom teacher and continued her career as a literacy specialist with teaching experiences that span across the grades. Teaching in New York City within diverse settings afforded her a wide range of teaching experiences. Her doctoral degree from Fordham University in Language and Literacy initiated her research interests in new literacies, critical literacies, teacher education, and intervention plans for helping striving readers and writers. O’Callaghan began working with preservice and inservice teachers at St. Joseph’s College in the Child Study Department and as an adjunct at Fordham University.  She also taught in the literacy specialist program at Iona College for twelve years before moving on to Western Connecticut State University. She has published numerous articles and books including (as coauthors) Antonacci & O’Callaghan, Portraits of Literacy Development: Instruction and Assessment in a Well-Balanced Literacy Program, K-3 (2004); Antonacci & O’Callaghan, A Handbook for Literacy Instruction & Assessment Strategies K-8 (2006), Antonacci & O’Callaghan, Using Children’s Literature Across the Curriculum: A Handbook of Instructional Strategies K-8 (2010), Antonacci & O’Callaghan, Promoting Literacy Development K-8 (2012).