Improving classroom reading instruction

Written as a textbook for the elementary reading methods course, sometimes called developmental reading, this book places the act of teaching at its center. Instead of organizing its chapters around what researchers have found about how children learn to read, it asks how teachers reason through their choices and what they do to help students become literate, meaning able to read and write.

Gerald G. Duffy looks at reading instruction from the teacher's side of the room, examining the thinking and actions that shape everyday lessons. It suits future and practicing teachers who want to understand how instruction works in real classrooms.