Classrooms That Work: They Can All Read and Write

by Richard L. Allington and Patricia Marr Cunningham

Book Overview

Practical help for providing balanced, comprehensive literacy instruction for all students, particularly those from culturally diverse backgrounds and those who are struggling with reading and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0137048378
• ISBN13: 9780137048373
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Great reading strategies for your classroom

Classrooms That Work is a great reading and writing resource. It tells what strategies have been tried in the reading field. It tells what has worked and what hasn't worked. After you get through that, it gives you tons of strategies to use in your classroom when teaching reading and writing. The best things about these stratgies are that they are easy to implement and they work. You can also modify them to make them more suitable for you. These strategies allow all students to be successful in your classroom. This book is a great one to keep on hand. Although it is aimed for grades K-5, you could easily adapt or modify the strategies to work in your middle school classroom. I have many new strategies to try with my students this September!

Wonderful book!

This is the best book I have ever read about teaching reading and writing. The ideas are practical and "do-able". You can teach reading and writing without buying an expensive program. This book is a must have if you teach 1st grade!

Great "How to" book on teaching reading.

Super choice for preservice teachers. They love it. Good readable information on how to teach children to read.

Invaluable!

This book is a must have for primary teachers! It is chock full of practical ideas that can be implemented in your classroom. Cunningham and Allington's experience and research are evident throughout the pages of this book. It is very readable and an excellent resource as it addresses just about every need you can think of. I highly recommend it.

The best book ever on classroom literacy.

This book changed my mind about teaching literacy skills, and the result is Special Day Class students who are reading, who love reading, and who actually TRY to read things. This book is full of great ideas that work: so many ideas that you wish you could use them all! My copy is already dog-eared and filled with sticky notes, highlighting, and notes in the margin. I've told all my teacher friends to get this book! GET THIS BOOK!