Cases of Successful Literacy Teachers - Softcover

Using teaching vignettes, cases for exploration, and research in the field, this text provides preservice and inservice teachers with effective, research-based literacy strategies they can use to improve their practice to best serve students from diverse backgrounds. The cases-based in urban, rural, and suburban settings-help teachers make connections between classroom challenges and the research literature that can help them to become problem solvers and reflective practitioners.

"Cases of Successful Literacy Teachers" is a supplemental text that can be used in a variety of literacy courses. The case studies focus on teachers and schools from a multitude of communities, including Blue Ribbon Schools and Reading First Schools, and on National Board Certified teachers. The vignettes and cases include students from diverse racial, linguistic, and socio-economic backgrounds, located in urban, rural, and suburban settings.