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Teaching Advanced Literacy Skills: A Guide for Leaders in Linguistically Diverse Schools
Teaching Advanced Literacy Skills A Guide for Leaders in Linguistically Diverse Schools Author:PhD Nonie K. Lesaux PhD, Emily Phillips Galloway MSEd, Sky H. Marietta EdD In our knowledge-based society, K-8 students need to develop increasingly sophisticated skills to read, write, and speak for a wide variety of purposes and audiences. Including an extended case example from a linguistically diverse school, this book guides school leaders to design and implement advanced literacy instruction through four key shif... more »ts: strengthening the instructional core, giving data a central role, using a shared curriculum, and providing supportive and tailored professional development. Reproducible forms and templates facilitate planning and implementation of schoolwide initiatives. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size.« less