Preparing Our Teachers: Opportunities for Better Reading Instruction - Softcover

Dorothy S. Strickland; Catherine Snow; Peg Griffin; M. Susan Burns; Peggy McNamara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0309074452 ISBN 13: 9780309074452

Publisher: Joseph Henry Press, 2002

Synopsis

Today’s teachers face huge challenges, especially for teaching reading in the primary grades. They must understand as much as possible about how children develop and learn, what they know, and what they can do. They must be able to apply a variety of teaching techniques to meet the individual needs of students. Equally important, teachers must identify students’ strengths and weaknesses and plan instructional programs that help students make progress. But a recent study reveals that fewer than half of American teachers report feeling “very well prepared†to meet such challenges.

Preparing Our Teachers seeks to improve that statistic by extracting practical information from the groundbreaking report issued by the National Research Council in 1998. This new book carefully outlines what classroom teachers need to know and what they need to be able to do to give children in preschool through grade 4 the essential opportunities to become good readers. It discusses what teacher education programs need to do to make their students good teachers of good readers and looks at what schools and school districts need to do to keep their teachers up to date for teaching reading.

Students at risk for educational failure represent the fastest growing segment of our school population. Preparing Our Teachers demonstrates to educators, parents, and policy makers alike that the first and most enduring way to meet children’s literacy needs is to support their teachers and teachers-to-be.

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Introduction: Teachers of Young Children, the Agents and Champions of Literacy
• 1. From Shopping Lists to Poetry: Forms and Functions of Written Language
• 2. Making Meaning: Language Development and Comprehension
• 3. Sounds, Letters, and Words: How Print Works
• 4. Moving to Success: Motivating Children to Read
• 5. Anticipating Challenges: Assessment, Prevention, and Intervention
• About the Authors
• Index
• Credits

About this title

About the Author

Dorothy Strickland, Catherine Snow, Peg Griffin, M. Susan Burns, and Peggy McNamara for the New Brunswick Group

About this edition

• Publisher: Joseph Henry Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0309074452
• ISBN 13: 9780309074452
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 193