Classrooms That Work

The authors’ clear and friendly writing style emphasizes the importance of promoting the integration of phonics and literature-based process writing and reading instruction to enhance ALL students’ learning and reading skills. The Fifth Edition was revised to help teachers better meet the needs of increasingly diverse classrooms and is filled with workable, practical strategies and activities to use in the classroom.

KEY TOPICS: This book focuses on practical strategies for promoting literacy among struggling and culturally diverse students. It addresses the importance of fostering fluency by providing teachers with a variety of methods to increase the amount of reading their students are doing throughout the day and teaching students to quickly and accurately read and spell common words. The book also suggests a variety of ways that successful teachers today differentiate their instruction to meet the needs of increasingly diverse classrooms.

MARKET: Elementary School Teachers, Reading Coaches, and Literacy Specialists.