Teaching Reading: Effective Schools, Accomplished Teachers

by Taylor, Barbara M.; Pearson, P. David; Johnson, Jr., Joseph F.; Paris, Scott G.

• ISBN13: 9780805841343
• ISBN10: 0805841342
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-01-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

This unique book tells the story of a select group of schools and teachers who have managed to beat the odds in terms of improving elementary students reading achievement. Originating with the CIERASchool Change Projectdirected by Barbara Taylor and David Pearson, it was subsequently expanded to include the work of other research teams doing similar work. It combines large scale studies of effective schools and teachers (Part I) with case studies of individual schools and teachers who have successfully transformed research findings into situation-specific strategies appropriate to their schools and classrooms (Parts II and III). The book's distinct contribution is showing that no matter how consistent the research findings on effective school and classroom practice, groups of teachers must improvise their own situation-specific programs and practices. In short, they must be able to create variations on a common theme. Key features of this outstanding new volume include: *Integration of research and cases--One cannot fully understand research-based general principles without knowing how they play themselves out in specific settings. Similarly, one cannot fully understand cases without seeing the commonalities across different schools and classrooms sharing similar goals. This book provides both perspectives. *Diverse cases--The schools and classrooms depicted in this book are urban, rural, and suburban; poor and middle class; and English-only and bilingual. Rather than telling readers how to beat the odds, it provides them with a wide variety of cases from which they can extrapolate to build their own customized teaching programs and practices. *Summarizing section--The final section contains a summary of research on effective schools and teachers and a concluding chapter by Gerry Duffy and Jim Hoffman in which they reflect on the book's content and possible directions for future research. The book is targeted to both in-service elementary teachers and literacy students in advanced college courses.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Preface	xi
Part I: Large Scale Studies
Effective Schools and Accomplished Teachers: Lessons About Primary-Grade Reading Instruction in Low-Income Schools	3	(70)
Barbara M. Taylor
P. David Pearson
Kathleen Clark
Sharon Walpole
Exemplary First-Grade Teaching	73	(16)
Michael Pressley
Ruth Wharton-McDonald
Lisa M. Raphael
Kristen Bogner
Alysia Roehrig
High-Performing, High-Poverty, Urban Elementary Schools	89	(26)
Joseph F. Johnson, Jr.
Literacy in Rural Vermont: Lessons From Schools Where Children Succeed	115	(26)
Jim Mosenthal
Marjorie Lipson
Susan Sortino
Barbara Russ
Jane Mekkelsen
Effective Practices for Assessing Young Readers	141	(22)
Scott G. Paris
Alison H. Paris
Robert D. Carpenter
Part II: School Case Studies
Sunnyside Elementary School, Mounds View, Minnesota	163	(16)
Barbara M. Taylor
Ceil Critchley
Rocky Mountain Elementary School, Longmont, Colorado	179	(20)
Jackalyn Colt
Rebecca Mills
Stevenson Elementary: Schoolwide Success	199	(18)
Sharon Walpole
Scott Elementary School: Home Grown School Improvement in the Flesh	217	(20)
Glenda Breaux
Jennifer Danridge
P. David Pearson
Serna Elementary School	237	(24)
Martha A. Adler
In Pursuit of Academic Excellence: The Story of Gladys Noon Spellman Elementary	261	(18)
Pamela A. Smith
Joseph E. Johnson, Jr.
Brent Jones
Part III: Teacher Case Studies
Highly Accomplished Primary Grade Teachers in Effective Schools	279	(10)
Barbara M. Taylor
A Case Study of Exemplary Practice in Fourth Grade	289	(20)
Leslie Mandel Morrow
Gregory Wamsley
Kimberly Duhammel
Nancy Fittipaldi
Scientific Literacy and Diverse Learners: Supporting the Acquisition of Disciplinary Ways of Knowing in Inclusion Classrooms	309	(26)
Carol Sue Englert
KaiLonnie Dunsmore
Bilingual Teachers Speak About the Literacy Instruction of Bilingual Latino Students	335	(26)
Rosalinda Barrera
Robert T. Jimenez
Part IV: Syntheses Across Cases
Research-Supported Characteristics of Teachers and Schools That Promote Reading Achievement	361	(14)
Barbara M. Taylor
Michael Pressley
P. David Pearson
Beating the Odds in Literacy Education: Not the ``Betting on'' but the Bettering of'' Schools and Teachers?	375	(14)
Gerald G. Duffy
James V. Hoffman
Author Index	389	(6)
Subject Index	395