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Title: Literacy Coaching: Learning to Collaborate
Publisher: Pearson
Publication Date: 2009
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0132301288
ISBN 13: 9780132301282
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good

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Explore the possibilities for teacher development and student learning with celebrated educator, Barbara Walker! Drawing on her experiences with both pre-service and practicing teachers, Walker discusses the importance of learning to collaborate within the school and during classroom interactions while presenting literacy coaches and teachers with the “cycle of literacy coaching”, a step-by-step process for adapting classroom instruction to increase learning. She also outlines best practice strategies for implementation, including the multiple decisions that teachers make before, during, and after a literacy lesson.

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Barbara J. Walker is president of the International Reading Association (2008-2009), a professor at Oklahoma State University where she teaches courses in literacy leadership and coaching, and the co-editor for Literacy Cases Online, a publication of the College Reading Association. She has served as an elementary reading specialist in public schools, a director of college reading programs, and an international coordinator of educational programs. Dr. Walker is the recipient of the College Reading Association's B. Herr Award for outstanding contributions to reading education and is a distinguished finalist for the International Reading Association's 1991 Albert J. Harris Award for research in reading disabilities. She has written numerous articles and authored four books, including Diagnostic Teaching of Reading: Techniques for Instruction and Assessment (2008), Techniques for Reading Assessment and Instruction (2005), Supporting Struggling Readers (2003), all Allyn & Bacon.

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