"Cunningham and Allington's voice and presentation style are unique, and I think this distinguishes their book from others. This book is an enjoyable and exciting read for my students. It makes them want to get out there and teach. They walk away from it with not only a sound set of teaching strategies, but a strong sense of why they would use ...
Literacy researcher and best-selling author Dick Allington offers clear recommendations and a teacher-friendly framework to guide classroom teachers in designing response to intervention programs. To help teachers acquire a fuller understanding of the complexity of response to intervention designs, literacy researcher and best-selling author Dick ...
In What Really Matters for Struggling Readers, nationally recognized scholar Dick Allington offers easy-to-understand interpretations of research that support three important principles: Children need to read a great deal to become proficient readers, offering summaries of research on the subject, the text shows how to monitor the amount of ...
At a time when so many pivotal education issues are closely tied to the performance of schools and NCLB policy, Schools That Work provides critical insight into how elementary schools must change to meet the increased demands of education for the 21st century. Praised as the most accessible, readable and practical book on the market, Schools That ...
Over a decade ago, this classic text introduced the framework for the current response to intervention initiative. Now that federal education policy has caught up with the research and reform models presented here, this special reissue of "No Quick Fix" is of critical importance to today's teachers, principals, administrators, policymakers, and ...
This compilation addresses instructional issues for teachers of children with reading/learning disabilities. It is designed to help redefine beliefs regarding what can be accomplished, and to provide examples of programmes that foster reading development inside and outside the classroom.
An important goal in every first-grade classroom is to get children reading - but how? This book examines current research on first-grade literacy instruction, and shows how it translates into what good teachers really do in the classroom. The authors, premier early literacy scholars and educators, describe several studies of effective beginning ...
This book explains how elementary schools need to be reorganized to foster the kinds of classrooms where all children become readers and writers. Drawing on their 50 years' combined experience, the authors present exemplary efforts in real schools across the country and offer a clear view of how schools must change to meet the increase demands of ...
Fluency has risen to the top of today's instructional agenda and yet it is a process that is still unfamiliar terrain for many teachers. To help teachers acquire a fuller understanding of the complexity of fluency development, literacy researcher and best-selling author Dick Allington offers clear recommendations to guide classroom teachers in ...
New legislation will transform American public education. Basic to the No Child Left Behind Act and the Put Reading First program is a new and substantial federal intrusion into local curriculum control and teacher autonomy. This intrusion is masked in the legislative mandate for "evidence-based," or "scientific," reading instruction. Beyond the ...
Fourth-graders around the country face new, high-stakes standardized tests, drawing increased attention to the need for effective literacy instruction in the upper-elementary grades. This essential book goes beyond political catch-phrases to examine what actually works in the fourth-grade classroom. After reviewing current research on upper ...
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