With this third edition of Literacy in the Early Grades: A Successful Start for PreK-4 Readers and Writers, best selling author, Gail Tompkins, focuses her attention on the needs of students in PreKindergarten through Grade 4, and on the teachers who will prepare them for reading and writing success. With unsurpassed classroom application in the form of authentic classroom vignettes, student work samples, minilessons, assessment tools, video case studies, and the Compendium of Instructional Procedures, the text continues to cover the information new and experienced teachers need to know to teach literacy effectively. - Back cover.