Best Practices In Literacy Instruction - 2nd edition

"This timely second edition takes the field even further toward closing the gap between literacy research and productive classroom practice. Contributing authors, informed and respected literacy scholars, provide in-depth treatment of many of the critical issues facing teachers of reading. Throughout the volume, the voices of real teachers add texture, depth, and credibility. An important and much-needed contribution for educators and an excellent text for graduate seminars on reading research."

--Timothy Rasinski, PhD, Kent State University

"The contributing authors represent the finest minds in literacy education today, and they review major instructional and policy issues with a wonderful balance between theory and practice. This second edition is a comprehensive and current examination of literacy research and instruction. It is an excellent text for college methods classes and a wonderful reference for school district administrators, teachers, and language arts coordinators."

--Carol M. Santa, PhD, Montana Academy, Marion, MT

"This up-to-date second edition reminds us, as educators, of the need to become knowledgeable professionals who take responsibility for communicating clearly the 'why,' 'what,' and 'how' of our teaching. This requires commitment and time. It's time to stop hanging out on the shore and step into the water! This text belongs in the hands of administrators, curriculum coordinators, experienced teachers, and literacy staff developers who plan for the future of school districts."

--Karen M. Osborne, Reading/Language Arts Consultant, Torrington (CT) Public Schools; President (2002-2003), Connecticut Reading Association

Guilford Publishing Web Site, May, 2003

Introduction, Morrow, Gambrell, and Pressley

I. Perspectives on Exemplary Practices in Literacy

1. Principles of Best Practice: Finding the Common Ground, Mazzoni and Gambrell
2. Toward a More Complex View of Balance in the Literacy Curriculum, Pearson and Raphael

II. Strategies for Learning and Teaching

3. Current Practices in Early Literacy Development, Morrow and Asbury
4. What Research Says about Teaching Phonics, P. M. Cunningham
5. Best Practices in Vocabulary Instruction: What Effective Teachers Do, Blachowicz and P. J. Fisher
6. Best Practices in Comprehension Instruction, Block and Pressley
7. Fluency in the Classroom: Strategies for Whole-Class and Group Work, Kuhn
8. Building a Sound Writing Program, Bromley
9. Material Matters: Using Children's Literature to Charm Readers (or Why Harry Potter and the Princess Diaries Matter), D. Fisher, Flood, and Lapp
10. Adolescent Literacy, Stevens and Bean
11. Best Practices in Literacy Assessment, Winograd, Flores-Dueñas, and Arrington

III. Special Issues

12. Organizing Effective Literacy Instruction: Grouping Strategies and Instructional Routines, Reutzel
13. See It Change: A Primer on the Basal Reader, Roser, Hoffman, and Carr
14. Strategies for Literacy Development for Students with Disabilities, Allington and Baker
15. Effective Use of Technology in Literacy Instruction, McKenna, Labbo, and Reinking
16. Achieving Best Practices in Literacy Instruction, J. W. Cunningham and Creamer