Literacy for All Issues in Teaching and Learning

by Osborn, Jean; Lehr, Fran

• ISBN13: 9781572303492
• ISBN10: 1572303492
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-05-02
• Publisher: The Guilford Press

Summary

This book addresses crucial and controversial questions facing today's reading scholars, educators, and professionals. Demonstrating the diverse, and often divisive, opinions that characterize the field, leading contributors including--Isabel L. Beck, Vivian L. Gadsden, Taffy E. Raphael, Jane Hansen, Peter Afflerbach, P. David Pearson, Michael Pressley, Richard Anderson, and Marilyn Jager Adams--offer their insights and expertise on such issues as the phonics/whole language debate, the state of reading comprehension instruction, the validity of and need for standards and assessment, effective methods of teacher preparation, and family literacy.

Author Biography

Jean Osborn, MEd, is an educational consultant whose prior administrative, research, and teaching experience includes nearly 20 years on the staff of the Center for the Study of Reading, University of Illinois, during which she served as Associate Director for twelve years. The coeditor of four books on reading research, she is the author of more than 30 articles and book chapters, as well as a set of resource materials on textbook adoptions.

Fran Lehr, MA, an education writer who has also worked as a teacher and editor, served on the staff of the Center for the Study of Reading for seven years. She is coauthor (with Stephen Stahl and Jean Osborn) of a summary of Marilyn J. Adams' Beginning to Read and coeditor (with Jean Osborn) of Reading, Language, and Literacy.

Table of Contents

Reflections on Literacy Education: An Introduction to Literacy for All

Learning to Read

Understanding Beginning Reading: a Journey through Teaching and Research

Family Cultures and Literacy Learning

Growing Successful Readers: Homes, Communities, and Schools

The Three-Cueing System

The Prevention of Reading Failure: Teach Reading and Writing

Purposes for Reading and Talking about Books

Comprehension Strategies Instruction

Balanced Instruction and the Role of Classroom Discourse

Intellectually Stimulating Story Discussions

Writing and Learning to Write

Some Things We Know about Learning to Write

Young Writers: The People and Purposes That Influence Their Literacy

Standards and Assessment

Reading Assessment and Learning to Read

Standards and Assessments: Tools for Crafting Effective Instruction

Performance Assessment in Reading: Implications for Teacher Education, Hoffman with Worthy

Teaching and Teacher Education

Professional Development in the Instruction of Reading, Richardson

The Rhetoric of All, the Reality of Some, and the Unmistakable Smell of Mortality

Appendix: A Principled Statement about Beginning Reading

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