Cases of Successful Literacy Teachers

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

Each chapter follows a consistent format in supporting the link between research and practice, and includes the following key features:

Focus Questions: Help readers make associations between the chapter text and their prior knowledge and experiences

Reading Research to Know: Relates a vignette to research in the field

Inside the Classroom: Provides a detailed vignette of teacher instruction in literary, followed by questions for discussion

Summary of Strategies Used: Helps teachers connect the vignette with classroom practice

Case for Exploration: Presents a classroom scenario, along with questions for discussion