Teaching reading
Subtitle: effective schools, accomplished teachers
By: edited by Barbara M. Taylor, P. David Pearson.
Contributors: Taylor, Barbara 1950-; Pearson, P. David.
Publisher: L. Erlbaum Associates; Routledge
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Mahwah, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 401
Subjects: Reading (Elementary) -- United States -- Case studies; School improvement programs -- United States -- Case studies; Effective teaching -- United States -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Description: This work looks at large scale studies that have recently examined characteristics of effective schools and teachers, and provides case studies of five schools in which children are achieving at high levels in reading. It also deals with case studies of effective teachers of reading.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Effective schools and accomplished teachers : lessons about primary-grade reading instruction in low-income schools -- Barbara M. Taylor ... [et al.]; title: Exemplary first-grade teaching -- Michael Pressley ... [et al.]; title: High-performing, high-poverty, urban elementary schools -- Joseph F. Johnson, Jr.; title: Literacy in rural Vermont : lessons from schools where children succeed -- Jim Mosenthal ... [et al.]; title: Effective practices for assessing young readers -- Scott G. Paris, Alison H. Paris, and Robert D. Carpenter; title: Sunnyside Elementary School, Mounds View, Minnesota -- Barbara M. Taylor and Ceil Critchley; title: Rocky Mountain Elementary School, Longmont, Colorado -- Jackalyn Colt and Rebecca Mills; title: Stevenson Elementary : schoolwide success -- Sharon Walpole; title: Scott Elementary School : home grown school improvement in the flesh -- Glenda Breaux, Jennifer Danridge, and P. David Pearson; title: Serna Elementary School -- Martha A. Adler; title: In pursuit of academic excellence : the story of Gladys Noon Spellman Elementary -- Pamela A. Smith, Joseph E. Johnson, Jr., and Brent Jones; title: Highly accomplished primary grade teachers in effective schools -- Barbara M. Taylor; title: Case study of exemplary practice in fourth grade -- Leslie Mandel Morrow ... [et al.]; title: Scientific literacy and diverse learners : supporting the acquisition of disciplinary ways of knowing in inclusion classrooms -- Carol Sue Englert and KaiLonnie Dunsmore; title: Bilingual teachers speak about the literacy instruction of bilingual Latino students -- Rosalinda Barrera and Robert T. Jiménez; title: Research-supported characteristics of teachers and schools that promote reading achievement -- Barbara M. Taylor, Michael Pressley, and P. David Pearson; title: Beating the odds in literacy education : not the "betting on" but the "bettering of" schools and teachers?-- Gerald G. Duffy and James V. Hoffman.