Teaching Basic Skills Through Literature Author:Marlene Beierle, Teri Lynes This is a whole language approach to teaching reading skills for grades K-3. Skills are provided for Emergent, Developing, and Independent readers. Lesson topics include Mother Goose, Alphabet Books, Predictable Books, Poetry and Songs. Literature lists focus on Cause and Effect, Character Development, Classification, Color, Counting, Days of th... more »e Week, Directions, Environmental Print, Language, Inferences, Main Idea, Number Sense, Opposites, Rhyming, Sequence, Shapes, Size, Time, Writing, Emergent Readers, Developing Readers, Independent Readers, Professional Reading.« less