Elementary Reading or Language Arts. One of today's leading literacy and language arts authors provides future and current teachers with practical, hands-on approaches for teaching literacy in this text that contains 50 research-based and field tested strategies. It includes strategies for reading, writing, listening, speaking, and visualizing. Each strategy includes general information (defining terms, purpose of the strategy, application, and research citations); a list of steps for implementing the strategy; and a concluding paragraph that gives ideas for application and additional examples.