Best Practices in Literacy Instruction

I. Perspectives on Best Practices

1. Evidence-Based Best Practices for Developing Literate Communities, Jacquelynn A. Malloy, Barbara A. Marinak, & Linda B. Gambrell

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

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

II. Best Practices for All Students

4. Best Practices in Early Literacy: Preschool, Kindergarten, and First Grade, Lesley Mandel Morrow, Susan M. Dougherty, & Diane H. Tracey

5. Best Practices to Change the Trajectory of Struggling Readers, Victoria J. Risko & Doris Walker-Dalhouse

6. Best Practices for Teaching Dual-Language Learners: Leveraging Everyday Literacies, Michael Domínguez & Kris D. Gutiérrez

7. Best Practices in Adolescent Literacy Instruction, Douglas Fisher & Nancy Frey

III. Evidence-Based Strategies for Literacy Learning and Teaching

8. Best Practices for Developmental Word Study in Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling, Donald R. Bear

9. Best Practices in Vocabulary Instruction, Kathy Ganske

10. Best Practices in Narrative Text Comprehension Instruction, Janice F. Almasi & Susan J. Hart

11. Best Practices in Informational Text Comprehension Instruction, Nell K. Duke & Nicole M. Martin

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

13. Best Practices in Teaching Writing, Troy Hicks

14. Best Practices in Reading Assessment, Peter Afflerbach, Byeong-Young Cho, Maria Elliker Crassas, & Jong-Yun Kim

IV. Perspectives on Special Issues

15. Best Practices in Teaching the New Literacies of Online Research and Comprehension, Lisa Zawilinski, Elena Forzani, Nicole Timbrell, & Donald J. Leu

16. Organizing Effective Literacy Instruction: Differentiating Instruction to Meet Student Needs, D. Ray Reutzel & Sarah K. Clark

17. Best Practices in the Physiological, Emotional, and Behavioral Foundations of Literacy Achievement, Diane H. Tracey

18. Building Strong Home, School, and Community Partnerships through Culturally Relevant Teaching, Jeanne R. Paratore, Patricia A. Edwards, & Lisa M. O’Brien

19. Best Practices in Professional Learning for Improving Literacy Instruction in Schools, Sharon Walpole, John Z. Strong, & Cary B. Riches

Index