num_pages: 213
description: Timely and accessible, this book provides nuts-and-bolts information and guidance for reading specialists in grades K-12 as well as those preparing for certification. The focus is on the many responsibilities of today's reading specialist, from teaching individual students to taking a leadership role in the schoolwide literacy program. Including discussion questions, self-reflective exercises, and lively examples and vignettes, the book presents research-based frameworks for working with struggling readers and their teachers; providing professional development and coaching; planning curriculum and conducting assessments; collaborating with parents and community-based programs; writing winning grant proposals; and much more.
language: English
title: The Reading Specialist: Leadership for the Classroom, School, and Community
titlecomplete: The Reading Specialist: Leadership for the Classroom, School, and Community (Solving Problems in the Teaching of Literacy)
genres: Education, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 90
publisher: The Guilford Press