Using teaching vignettes, cases for exploration, and research in the field, this text provides preservice and inservice teachers with effective, research-based literacy strategies they can use to improve their practice to best serve students from diverse backgrounds. The cases-based in urban, rural, and suburban settings-help teachers make connections between classroom challenges and the research literature that can help them to become problem solvers and reflective practitioners.

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Learning from Successful Literacy Teachers
Discussion of IRA's Excellent Reading Teachers
Guiding Students Literacy Success
Focus Questions
Reading Research to Know
Inside the Classroom: Hawthorne Elementary School, Madison, Wisconsin
Summary of Strategies Used
Case for Exploration: Hawthorne Elementary School, Madison, Wisconsin
Concluding Thoughts
Terms to Know
Research that Works
Websites
Oral Language Development
Focus Questions
Reading Research to Know
Inside the Classroom: A. Doyle Elementary School, Fresno, California
Summary of Strategies Used
Case for Exploration: A. Doyle Elementary School, California
Concluding Thoughts
Terms to Know
Research that Works
Websites
Early Literacy Development
Focus Questions
Reading Research to Know
Inside the Classroom: Springview Elementary School, Miami Springs, Florida
Summary of Strategies Used
Case for Exploration: Masson Elementary School, Lorain, Ohio
Concluding Thoughts
Terms to Know
Research that Works
Websites
Vocabulary Development
Focus Questions
Reading Research to Know
Inside the Classroom: Chinn Elementary, Parkhill, Missouri
Summary of Strategies
Case for Exploration: Chinn Elementary, Parkhill, Missouri
Concluding Thoughts
Terms to Know
Research that Works
Websites
Comprehending Text
Focus Questions
Reading Research to Know
Inside the Classroom: Baggaley Elementary School, Latrobe, Pennsylvania
Summary of Strategies Used
Case for Exploration: Baggaley Elementary School, Latrobe, Pennsylvania
Concluding Thoughts
Terms to Know
Research that Works
Websites
Development of Written Communication
Focus Questions
Reading Research to Know
Inside the Classroom: Alice Carlson Applied Learning Center, Fort Worth, Texas
Summary of Strategies
Case for Exploration: Bruce Shulkey Elementary School, Fort Worth, Texas
Concluding Thoughts
Terms to Know
Research that Works
Websites
Literacy Across the Curriculum: Strategy Instruction in the Content Areas
Focus Questions
Reading Research to Know
Inside the Classroom: Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, Buffalo, New York
Summary of Strategies Used
Case for Exploration: P.S. #17 Buffalo, New York
Concluding Thoughts
Terms to Know
Research that Works
Websites
Glossary
Index
About the Authors
About the Contributors
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