Identifying what exemplary teachers know and do to promote literacy achievement at every grade level, this highly motivating book provides step-by-step guidance for professional development. It helps teachers assess their strengths and build their competencies in six key domains of literacy instruction directly linked to student success. Featuring skills-building exercises, sample lesson plans, book lists, and over a dozen reproducibles, the book illustrates specific actions that teachers can take to emulate their most effective colleagues in school districts around the country.
New to This Edition
* Revised and updated based on the authors' professional development work with over 20,000 educators.
* Expanded to cover K–12 (prior edition covered K–5).
* Now includes material for literacy coaches and administrators, as well as teachers.
* "Teacher-in-Action" cases offer vivid snapshots of exemplary practices.
*Many of the activities and reproducibles are new or revised.
- ISBN10 1606232363
- ISBN13 9781606232361
- Publish Date 9 June 2009 (first published 3 July 2003)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 22 May 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Guilford Publications
- Edition 2nd edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 278
- Language English