Full Description
Highlighting practices used by exemplary literacy teachers in diverse schools across the nation
Using teaching vignettes, cases for exploration, and research in the field, this text provides preservice and inservice teachers with effective, research-based literacy strategies they can use to improve their practice to best serve students from diverse backgrounds. The cases—based in urban, rural, and suburban settings—help teachers make connections between classroom challenges and the research literature that can help them to become problem solvers and reflective practitioners.
Each chapter follows a consistent format in supporting the link between research and practice, and includes the following key features:
Focus Questions: Help readers make associations between the chapter text and their prior knowledge and experiences
Reading Research to Know: Relates a vignette to research in the field
Inside the Classroom: Provides a detailed vignette of teacher instruction in literacy, followed by questions for discussion
Summary of Strategies Used: Helps teachers connect the vignette to classroom practice
Case for Exploration: Presents a classroom scenario, along with questions for discussion
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Learning from Successful Literacy Teachers
Discussion of IRA's Excellent Reading Teachers
2. Guiding Students Literacy Success
Focus Questions
Reading Research to Know
Inside the Classroom: Hawthorne Elementary School, Madison, Wisconsin
Summary of Strategies Used
Case for Exploration: Hawthorne Elementary School, Madison, Wisconsin
Concluding Thoughts
Terms to Know
Research that Works
Websites
3. Oral Language Development
Focus Questions
Reading Research to Know
Inside the Classroom: A. Doyle Elementary School, Fresno, California
Summary of Strategies Used
Case for Exploration: A. Doyle Elementary School, California
Concluding Thoughts
Terms to Know
Research that Works
Websites
4. Early Literacy Development
Focus Questions
Reading Research to Know
Inside the Classroom: Springview Elementary School, Miami Springs, Florida
Summary of Strategies Used
Case for Exploration: Masson Elementary School, Lorain, Ohio
Concluding Thoughts
Terms to Know
Research that Works
Websites
5. Vocabulary Development
Focus Questions
Reading Research to Know
Inside the Classroom: Chinn Elementary, Parkhill, Missouri
Summary of Strategies
Case for Exploration: Chinn Elementary, Parkhill, Missouri
Concluding Thoughts
Terms to Know
Research that Works
Websites
6. Comprehending Text
Focus Questions
Reading Research to Know
Inside the Classroom: Baggaley Elementary School, Latrobe, Pennsylvania
Summary of Strategies Used
Case for Exploration: Baggaley Elementary School, Latrobe, Pennsylvania
Concluding Thoughts
Terms to Know
Research that Works
Websites
7. Development of Written Communication
Focus Questions
Reading Research to Know
Inside the Classroom: Alice Carlson Applied Learning Center, Fort Worth, Texas
Summary of Strategies
Case for Exploration: Bruce Shulkey Elementary School, Fort Worth, Texas
Concluding Thoughts
Terms to Know
Research that Works
Websites
8. Literacy Across the Curriculum: Strategy Instruction in the Content Areas
Focus Questions
Reading Research to Know
Inside the Classroom: Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, Buffalo, New York
Summary of Strategies Used
Case for Exploration: P.S. #17 Buffalo, New York
Concluding Thoughts
Terms to Know
Research that Works
Websites
Glossary
Index
About the Authors
About the Contributors
