Recounts a discussion concerning Jo Fraatz's "The Politics of Reading: Power, Opportunity, and Prospects for Change in American Schools" and Kathryn Anderson-Levitt's article "National Culture and Teaching Culture" in the March 1987 issue of "Anthropology and Education." (MM)

Presents an interview with Dr. Marion Jenkinson, focusing on her views of reading based on a lifetime involvement in the field of reading. Topics discussed include reading and educational concerns, teaching issues, reading-writing relationships, and suggestions for new teachers. (MM)

Describes how hearing children's books read aloud in their undergraduate methods class not only helped students learn more about children's literature but also sensitized them to the value and fun of reading aloud. (HOD)

Describes a study in which eight reading specialists and eight graduate students diagnosed the same three reading disability cases. Compares and analyzes the differences in their diagnoses and in their prescriptions for remediation. (FL)

A classroom observation checklist for evaluating secondary schools reading instruction is presented. (MJL)

"Standards for Reading Professionals--Revised 2003 [Standards 2003]" provides criteria for developing and evaluating preparation programs for reading professionals. These standards answer the question, "What should new reading professionals know and be able to do?" The focus is on candidate performance and emphasizes the knowledge and skills of…

Today's teachers face huge challenges, especially for teaching reading in the primary grades. A recent study reveals that fewer than half of American teachers report feeling "very well prepared" to meet such challenges. This book seeks to improve that statistic by extracting practical information from the report issued by the National…

This book for early childhood educators is a practical guide for developing literacy in children between 3 and 7 years of age. Although many aspects of literacy are addressed, such as reading, speaking, listening, and writing, the predominant focus of the book is on reading. The book is not about theory, although theoretical aspects and current…

The dichotomy a teacher educator experienced as a child between reading library books and "store-bought" books at home and reading the textbooks in school turned out to fuel major debates in the teaching of reading. She always believed that she had learned to read with books--she simply endured the school readers to get through school.…

This handbook, a companion to the revised vision of the "Standards for Reading Professionals" (1998), published by the International Reading Association (IRA), provides vital information to those preparing programs for any or all of the three kinds of reading professionals: reading specialists, reading coordinators (including consultants…

Student teachers need to have high quality cooperating teachers as mentors for the development of the best reading teachers possible. The mentor needs to assist the student teacher to achieve diverse attitudes in the teaching of reading. First, the student teacher should be a consumer of reading materials with an appetite for reading. Second, the…

A questionnaire concerning reading was sent to Indiana middle, junior, and senior high schools in 1992 and a report was written at that time. The same questionnaire was sent to the same schools in 2003. During this period of time increased interest was shown throughout the nation in reading achievement and high school graduation rates. The purpose…

In spring 2004, more than 1,200 teachers and principals in Tennessee participated in online professional development as part of the state?s Reading First grant. The opportunity also allowed the state to investigate the possibility of using online professional development to help teachers meet high-quality teacher requirements. Staff at the…

Indicates that teachers who possessed theoretical and situational knowledge of reading were not more accurate than other teachers in estimating the readability levels of selected passages, and that the accuracy with which teachers estimated the readability levels of passages decreased as the readability levels of the passages increased. (FL)

A study examined the relationship between teachers' theoretical orientations toward reading and the verbal feedback they give to students during guided oral reading. A major finding is that teachers' beliefs and behavior vary with the instructional situation; that is, teachers hold different beliefs for different student ability groups.…