Smart Answers to Tough Questions: What to Say When You're Asked About Fluency, Phonics, Grammar, Vocabulary, SSR, Tests, Support for ELLs, and More

Provides clear answers to the most frequently asked questions about literacy instruction. An indispensable resource for professional development workshops, newsletters, and grant applications.

An indispensable guide for classroom teachers, literacy coaches, administrators, and teacher educators, Smart Answers to Tough Questions addresses today's most pressing issues in language, literacy, teaching, and learning--in conversational language and areader-friendly format. The questions are real ones, some posed by educators themselves, and others frequently addressed to educators by parents, administrators, and the media. Each tough question is followed by a research-based "Bottom-Line Answer" that is drawn from government reports, stripped of jargon, and translated into clear, accessible prose.

This essential desktop reference is a rich resource for grant writing, school newsletters, back-to-school nights, and presentations to the school board. Each section in the book can also serve as the outline for workshops and reading methods courses. In addition, Garan includes 100+ invaluable research quotes that are downloadable from the Web.