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This comprehensive guide addresses the fundamentals of designing and directing a high-quality elementary reading program. Step by step, the book provides the knowledge needed to ensure that teachers and students benefit from scientifically based reading research. Aided by reproducible figures and many detailed examples, preservice and practicing literacy coaches learn best practices for: *Analyzing student achievement. *Selecting new curricula, texts, and resources. *Providing professional development. *Assisting individual teachers. *Engaging the whole school community in supporting positive change.
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THE LITERACY COACH’S HANDBOOK
SOLVING PROBLEMS IN THE TEACHING OF LITERACY Cathy Collins Block, Series Editor RECENT VOLUMES Reading to Learn: Lessons from Exemplary Fourth-Grade Classrooms Richard L. Allington and Peter H. Johnston A Sound Start: Phonemic Awareness Lessons for Reading Success Christine E. McCormick, Rebecca N. Throneburg, and Jean M. Smitley Organizing and Managing the Language Arts Block: A Professional Development Guide Lesley Mandel Morrow Teaching Strategic Processes in Reading Janice F. Almasi Exploring the Literature of Fact: Children’s Nonfiction Trade Books in the Elementary Classroom Barbara Moss Literacy and Young Children: Research-Based Practices Edited by Diane M. Barone and Lesley Mandel Morrow Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction: Engaging Classrooms, Lifelong Learners Emily Anderson Swan Struggling Readers: Assessment and Instruction in Grades K–6 Ernest Balajthy and Sally Lipa-Wade Explaining Reading: A Resource for Teaching Concepts, Skills, and Strategies Gerald G. Duffy Rethinking Reading Comprehension Edited by Anne P. Sweet and Catherine E. Snow Exemplary Literacy Teachers: Promoting Success for All Children in Grades K–5 Cathy Collins Block and John N. Mangieri Assessment for Reading Instruction Michael C. McKenna and Steven A. Stahl Vocabulary Instruction: Research to Practice Edited by James F. Baumann and Edward J. Kame’enui The Reading Specialist: Leadership for the Classroom, School, and Community Rita M. Bean Multicultural and Multilingual Literacy and Language: Contexts and Practices Edited by Fenice B. Boyd and Cynthia H. Brock, with Mary S. Rozendal Teaching All the Children: Strategies for Developing Literacy in an Urban Setting Edited by Diane Lapp, Cathy Collins Block, Eric J. Cooper, James Flood, Nancy Roser, and Josefina Villamil Tinajero Conceptual Foundations of Teaching Reading Mark Sadoski The Literacy Coach’s Handbook: A Guide to Research-Based Practice Sharon Walpole and Michael C. McKenna
The Literacy Coach’s HANDBOOK A Guide to Research-Based Practice Sharon Walpole Michael C. McKenna
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