Understanding and Implementing Reading First Initiatives: The Changing Role of Administrators

As an administrator in the U.S. education system, you need to be more than a good manager — you need to understand high-quality reading instruction, so you can serve your teachers and help your school meet Reading First requirements. This resource provides the tools:

-Guidance for your role as a leader in literacy instruction
-Lesson plans and classroom strategies you can share with your teachers
-Information on the essential elements of reading instruction, oral language, writing, motivation, intervention for struggling readers, and the role of the literacy coach

Although written with the administrator in mind, this collection also can be used by teachers, teacher educators, staff developers, and policymakers as they support literacy teaching and learning in U.S. schools.

An IRA Book Club selection, February 2006