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This vol. explores reading practices in sch's where at-risk stud's beat the odds in learning to read. Some chapters take a broad view, compar. practices across sch's & classrooms, while others deal with the story of a single project over multiple sites.<
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Contents: Part I:Large Scale Studies.B.M. Taylor, P.D. Pearson, K. Clark, S. Walpole, Effective Schools/Accomplished Teachers: Lessons About Primary Reading Instruction in Low-Income Schools. M. Pressley, R.W. McDonald, L.M. Raphael, K. Bogner, A. Roehrig, Exemplary First-Grade Teaching. J.E. Johnson, Jr., High-Performing, High-Poverty Urban Elementary Schools. J. Mosenthal, M. Lipson, S. Sortino, B. Russ, J. Mekkelsen, Literacy in Rural Vermont: Lessons From Schools Where Children Succeed. S. Paris, A. Paris, R. Carpenter, Effective Practices for Assessing Young Readers. Part II:School Case Studies.B.M. Taylor, C. Critchley, Sunnyside Elementary, Mounds View, MN. J. Colt, R. Mills, Rocky Mountain Elementary School, Longmont, CO. S. Walpole, Stevenson Elementary School: Schoolwide Success. J. Danridge, P.D. Pearson, Scott Elementary School: Home Grown School Improvement in the Flesh--Glenda Breaux. M. Adler, Serna Elementary School. P. Smith, J.E. Johnson, Jr., B. Jones, In Pursuit of Academic Excellence: The Story of Gladys Noon Spellman Elementary. Part III:Teacher Case Studies.B.M. Taylor, Highly Accomplished Primary Grade Teachers in Effective Schools. L.M. Morrow, A Case Study of Exemplary Practice in Fourth Grade. C.S. Englert, K. Dunsmore, Scientific Literacy and Diverse Learners: Supporting the Acquisition of Disciplinary Ways of Knowing in Inclusion Classrooms. R. Barrera, R. Jiménez, Bilingual Teachers Speak About the Literacy Instruction of Bilingual Latino Students. Part IV:Syntheses Across Cases.B.M. Taylor, M. Pressley, P.D. Pearson, Increasing Reading Achievement: Research-Supported Characteristics of Teachers and Schools. G. Duffy, J. Hoffman, Beating the Odds in Literacy Education: No the "Betting on" but the "Bettering of" Schools and Teachers.
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Barbara M. Taylor, P. David Pearson
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This vol. explores reading practices in sch's where at-risk stud's beat the odds in learning to read. Some chapters take a broad view, compar. practices across sch's & classrooms, while others deal with the story of a single project over multiple sites.<
