Literacy for All: Issues in Teaching and Learning - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1572303492 ISBN 13: 9781572303492

Publisher: The Guilford Press, 1998

Synopsis

This book addresses crucial and controversial questions facing today's reading scholars, educators, and professionals. Demonstrating the diverse, and often divisive, opinions that characterize the field, leading contributors including--Isabel L. Beck, Vivian L. Gadsden, Taffy E. Raphael, Jane Hansen, Peter Afflerbach, P. David Pearson, Michael Pressley, Richard Anderson, and Marilyn Jager Adams--offer their insights and expertise on such issues as the phonics/whole language debate, the state of reading comprehension instruction, the validity of and need for standards and assessment, effective methods of teacher preparation, and family literacy.

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About the Author

Jean Osborn, MEd, is an educational consultant whose prior administrative, research, and teaching experience includes nearly 20 years on the staff of the Center for the Study of Reading, University of Illinois, during which she served as Associate Director for twelve years. The coeditor of four books on reading research, she is the author of more than 30 articles and book chapters, as well as a set of resource materials on textbook adoptions.

Fran Lehr, MA, an education writer who has also worked as a teacher and editor, served on the staff of the Center for the Study of Reading for seven years. She is coauthor (with Stephen Stahl and Jean Osborn) of a summary of Marilyn J. Adams' Beginning to Read and coeditor (with Jean Osborn) of Reading, Language, and Literacy.

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Contents Reflections on Literacy Education: An Introduction to Literacy for All, Anderson I. Learning to Read 1. Understanding Beginning Reading: a Journey through Teaching and Research, Beck 2. Family Cultures and Literacy Learning, Gadsden 3. Growing Successful Readers: Homes, Communities, and Schools, Purcell-Gates 4. The Three-Cueing System, Adams 5. The Prevention of Reading Failure: Teach Reading and Writing, Gaffney II. Purposes for Reading and Talking about Books 6. Comprehension Strategies Instruction, Pressley 7. Balanced Instruction and the Role of Classroom Discourse, Raphael 8. Intellectually Stimulating Story Discussions, Anderson, Chinn, Waggoner, and Nguyen III. Writing and Learning to Write 9. Some Things We Know about Learning to Write, Freedman 10. Young Writers: The People and Purposes That Influence Their Literacy, Hansen IV. Standards and Assessment 11. Reading Assessment and Learning to Read, Afflerbach 12. Standards and Assessments: Tools for Crafting Effective Instruction, Pearson 13. Performance Assessment in Reading: Implications for Teacher Education, Hoffman with Worthy, Roser, and Rutherford V. Teaching and Teacher Education 14. Professional Development in the Instruction of Reading, Richardson 15. The Rhetoric of All, the Reality of Some, and the Unmistakable Smell of Mortality, Kameenui Appendix: A Principled Statement about Beginning Reading

Edition details

• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1572303492
• ISBN 13: 9781572303492
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 353
• Editor: Osborn Jean, Lehr Fran