A trusted resource for day-to-day guidance, professional development, and certification courses, this nuts-and-bolts text explains the varied roles and responsibilities of reading specialists in grades K–12. Rita Bean offers evidence-based best practices for working with struggling readers, supporting teachers, planning curricula, and collaborating with parents, community programs, and granting agencies. Useful features include discussion questions, self-reflective exercises, and lively examples and vignettes.
New to This Edition:
- expanded coverage of middle and secondary school reading programs
- addresses the reading specialist’s role in a response-to-intervention framework
- additional chapter on literacy coaching
- suggested learning exercises and activities for each chapter are provided in an appendix
- many new or revised examples and reflection questions.
- ISBN10 1606234072
- ISBN13 9781606234075
- Publish Date 29 October 2009 (first published 22 January 2004)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 May 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Guilford Publications
- Edition 2nd edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 272
- Language English