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Preparing Our Teachers: Opportunities for Better Reading Instructionreviewed by Marianne Baker - 2003 Title: Preparing Our Teachers: Opportunities for Better Reading Instruction Author(s): Dorothy S. Strickland, Catherine Snow, Peg Griffin, M. Susan Burns,and Peggy McNamara
Publisher: Joseph Henry Press, Washington ISBN: 0309074452, Pages: 183, Year: 2002 Search for book at Amazon.com What is the core content for reading educators today? What is it
pre-service and in-service teachers need to know to effectively
teach students to read?
Beginning with a grant received from New York’s Carnegie
Corporation, Strickland and Snow convened with New Brunswick Group
members Burns, Griffin and McNamara to develop this consensus
document and work with professional development institutes on
teacher education in reading. Snow, Burns, and Griffin also served
as editors in the landmark academic report reviewing some of the
nation’s leading and most current reading research;
Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children. The
group’s 1998 report evaluated methods and results of reading
instruction and reading intervention, surmising that the primary
prevention is good classroom instruction. In an attempt to bring
findings from that report to non-academics, Burns, Snow, and
Griffin edited Starting Out Right: A Guide to Promoting
Children’s Reading Success (1999). Both for the home and
the classroom, reading-related activities were offered for children
from birth to grade three.
Similarly, Strickland and Snow’s Preparing Our
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- Marianne Baker
James Madison University E-mail Author MARIANNE BAKER is an assistant professor in Reading Education at James Madison University. She has recently published “Reading resistance in middle school: What can be done?” for the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy (February, 2002) and is currently chronicling her development and reflections as a teacher educator. She teaches literacy instruction, reading assessment, and children’s literature to in-service and pre-service teachers at James Madison University.
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