What Every Principal Should Know About Teaching Reading: How to Raise Test Scores and Nurture a Love of Reading

Reading instruction is one of the top priorities for any building principal today. Students' ability to read has become one of the critical measures of every school's success—and a task at which too many schools fall woefully short.

A dramatically effective solution to the teaching of reading exists, however, and it's being used by principals and teachers all across the United States. This approach to reading instruction, created by Dr. Marie Carbo, is known as Reading Styles. It allows teachers to gain a detailed understanding of their students' strengths and preferences and then identify the best way to work with each one.

This important book details exactly how children's lives can be changed—have been changed—by the application of the Reading Styles approach. Dr. Carbo provides classroom-based, research-proven examples of how to strengthen reading program using children's Reading Styles, how to achieve high reading gains with modeling strategies and the Carbo Recorded-Book® Method, how to improve test scores, how to evaluate reading programs, and how to start an exemplary reading program (using examples from three model schools).

A nationally known, award-winning researcher and teacher, Dr. Marie Carbo is founder and executive director of the Carbo Reading Styles Institute. CRSI has empowered tens of thousands of educators nationwide to greatly improve reading instruction through its on-site training, conferences, seminars, Website, and network of model schools. Over the past decade, the Carbo Reading Styles Program has resulted in high gains in students' achievement and motivation, especially with students in the bottom third. The Carbo Program has been recognized for its positive, powerful impact on reading achievement and motivation by the U.S. Department of Education, the Education Commission of the States, and by various state departments of education. Dr. Carbo has keynoted many national conferences, as well as the National Reading Styles Conference. She has served as consultant, nationally and internationally, for the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), Phi Delta Kappa, the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP), state education departments, universities, school districts, and corporations.