Issues and trends in literacy education

Introduction to the Field of Literacy Education

Ch. 1. Teacher Education in Literacy

Reading Teacher Education in the Next Millennium: What Your Grandmother's Teacher Didn't Know That Your Granddaughter's Should / James Hoffman and P. David Pearson

Ch. 2. Early Literacy Intervention

Teaching All Children to Read / David R. Denton

Developing and Supporting Literacy-Rich Environments for Children / Jerlean Daniel, Theresa Clarke and Mark Ouellette

One Down and 80,000 to Go: Word Recognition Instruction in the Primary Grades / Connie Juel and Cecilia Minden-Cupp

Ch. 3. Family Literacy

Family-School Partnerships: Essential Elements of Literacy Instruction in the United States / International Reading Association

Loss of Family Languages: Should Educators Be Concerned? / Lily Wong Fillmore

Ch. 4. Multicultural Diversity

Teaching and Learning about Cultural Diversity: A Dose of Empathy / Howard M. Miller

Listening to Inner City Teachers of English Language Learners: Differentiating Literacy Instruction / Laurie MacGillivray and Robert Rueda

English Learners Reading English: What We Know, What We Need to Know / Suzanne F. Peregoy and Owen F. Boyle

Ch. 5. Comprehension

Improving the Reading Comprehension of America's Children: 10 Research-Based Principles / Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement

Comprehension Strategies Instruction: A Turn-of-the-Century Status Report / Michael Pressley

Ch. 6. Adolescent Literacy

Reinventing Adolescent Literacy for New Times: Perennial and Millennial Issues / Elizabeth Birr Moje, Josephine Young, John Readence and David Moore

Effective Literacy Instruction for Adolescents / Donna E. Alvermann

Ch. 7. Writing

Issues and Trends in Writing Instruction / Michael T. Moore

Reading ... with Pen in Hand! / Sharon Sicinski Skeans

Ch. 8. Reading Assessment

High-Stakes Assessments in Reading / International Reading Association

High-Stakes Testing in Reading? Today in Texas, Tomorrow? / James V. Hoffman, Lori Czop Assaf and Scott G. Paris

Ch. 9. Technology

Effective Use of Technology in Literacy Instruction / Michael C. McKenna, Linda D. Labbo and David Reinking

Ch. 10. Scientifically-Based Reading Research

What I Have Learned Up Until Now About Research Methods In Reading Education / Michael Pressley.

Introduction to the Field of Literacy Education

1. Balance

Survey of Instructional Practices of Primary Teachers Nominated as Effective in Promoting Literacy / Michael Pressley, Joan Rankin and Linda Yokoi

Six Aspects of Literacy: A Curriculum Framework / K. Au, J. Carroll and J. Scheu

2. Phonics

Everything You Wanted to Know about Phonics (But Were Afraid to Ask) / Steven A. Stahl, Ann M. Duffy-Hester and Katherine Anne Dougherty Stahl

Phonemic Awareness and the Teaching of Reading: A Position Statement from the Board of Directors of the International Reading Association / International Reading Association

3. Multicultural Diversity

Literacy Learning from a Multicultural Perspective / Jim Anderson and Lee Gunderson

Exploring Culture through Children's Connections / Sandy Kaser and Kathy G. Short

4. Reading Assessment

Literacy Assessment Reform: Shifting Beliefs, Principled Possibilities, and Emerging Practices / Robert J. Tierney

Transforming Student Assessment / D. Monty Neill

5. Literacy Materials

Basal Readers and the State of American Reading Instruction: A Call for Action / The Commission on Reading, National Council of Teachers of English

Basalization of America: A Cause for Concern / Constance Weaver

Attack on Basal Readers for the Wrong Reasons / Patrick Groff

6. Spelling

Case of Invented Spelling: How Theory Becomes Target Practice / Edward Miller

Integrated Word Study: Spelling, Grammar, and Meaning in the Language Arts Classroom / Marcia A. Invernizzi, Mary P. Abouzeid and Janet W. Bloodgood

7. Emergent Literacy

What Readers Do: Young Children's Ideas about the Nature of Reading / Linda Teran Strommen and Barbara Fowles Mates

Research Based Answers to Questions about Emergent Literacy in Kindergarten / Judi Lucas Lesiak

8. Content Literacy

Let's Not Marginalize Adolescent Literacy / Richard T. Vacca

Learning with Text in the Primary Grades / Andrea M. Guillaume

9. Early Intervention

Helping Struggling Readers: Linking Small-Group Intervention with Cross-Age Tutoring / Barbara M. Taylor, Barbara E. Hanson and Karen Justice-Swanson / [et al.]

Review of Reading Recovery / Billie J. Askew, Irene C. Fountas and Carol A. Lyons / [et al.]

10. Writing

Process Writing and the Writer's Workshop: Excerpt from When Bad Things Happen to Good Ideas in Literacy Education: Professional Dilemmas, Personal Decisions, and Political Traps / James V. Hoffman

Process Writing and the Secondary School Reality: A Compromise / Barbara Carney

Evaluation: The Center of Writing Instruction / Jane Hansen.