Best Practices in Literacy Instruction

I. Situating Best Practices: Comprehensive and Culturally, Responsive Literacy Instruction

1. Current Issues and Best Practices in Literacy Instruction, P. David Pearson, Christina L. Madda, & Taffy E. Raphael

2. Best Practices to Promote Social Justice and Equity in the Literacy Classroom, Ernest Morrell

3. Best Practices for Motivating Students to Read, Ana Taboada Barber & John T. Guthrie

II. Best Practices throughout the Grades

4. Best Practices in Early Literacy, Lesley Mandel Morrow, Susan Dougherty, & Diane Tracey

5. Best Practices for Literacy in the Intermediate and Middle Grades, Heather Kenyon Casey

6. Best Practices for Literacy in High School, Douglas Fisher & Nancy Frey

7. Best Practices for Integrating Children’s Literature into the Life of the Classroom, Kathy G. Short

8. Best Practices for Organizing and Differentiating for Equitable Literacy Instruction, D. Ray Reutzel & Parker C. Fawson

III. Evidence-Based Practices for Literacy Teaching and Learning

9. Best Practices for Developing Phonological Awareness, Phonics, and Word Study to Support Fluent Reading, Donald R. Bear

10. Best Practices in Fluency Instruction, Melanie Kuhn, Timothy Rasinski, & Chase Young

11. Best Practices in Vocabulary Instruction, Kathy Ganske

12. Best Practices for Developing Comprehension across Genres, Nell K. Duke & Nicole M. Martin

13. Best Practices in Teaching Writers, Kelly Gallagher & Penny Kittle

14. Best Practices in Reading Nonfiction: Understanding the Possibilities and Problems, Robert Probst & Kylene Beers

15. Best Practices in Digital Literacy, Troy Hicks

IV. Best Practices to Meet Targeted Needs

16. Best Practices to Support the Literacy Development of Bilingual Learners, Ofelia García & Claudia Cervantes-Soon

17. Best Practices to Change the Trajectory of Students Experiencing Reading Difficulties, Victoria J. Risko & Doris Walker-Dalhouse

18. Best Practices to Support Achieving Yet “Invisible” Literacy Learners, Diane Lapp, Toni Faddis, & Alejandro Gonzalez Ojeda

19. Best Practices in Literacy Assessment, Nancy Frey, Alejandro Gonzalez Ojeda, & Douglas Fisher

V. Sustaining Best Practices: The Importance of Building Connections

20. Best Practices Linking Professional Learning, Literacy Coaching, and Equity, Sharon Walpole, Faith Muirhead, & Jaime True Daley

21. Best Practices for Home, School, and Community Partnerships: Collaborating for Social Justice and Equity, Patricia A. Edwards & Jacquelyn S. Sweeney

Epilogue. Literacy Practicing: Repositioning Teachers as Cultural Workers and Ecopedagogues toward Creating Learning Cultures, Robert J. Tierney & P. David Pearson

Afterword. Teaching Literacy in the Dystopia of Now: A Call to Action, Cornelius Minor

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