Classrooms That Work: They Can All Read and Write

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Author : Patricia M. Cunningham, Richard L. Allington
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9780205493944
Edition : 4
Number of Pages : 320
Product Group : Book
Publication Date : 2006-02-27
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon

ASIN : 0205493947

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Great Reading (2003-05-18)

Classrooms That Work has a multitude of ideas that actually work in the classroom to help students become better readers and writers.

Great resource (2003-04-24)

This book is written in a reader-friendly format. It provides many useful strategies which are easily adapted to individual classrooms. The authors reference specific books which lend themselves to cited strategies. ( Some books will prove hard to come by as they are out of print, however.) Current reasearch is presented in a clear manner.Both authors are noted in the field of education and their ability to provide a resource for teachers that is not overly dry and overrun with statistics and obscure studies makes the book a very useful tool in today's classroom.

Classrooms That Work (2002-09-20)

For any experienced teacher, Cunningham's condescending, dogmatic style borders upon the insulting. Carefully read, her "best methods" approach, "research-based" book is neither supported, cited nor properly footnoted within the confines of her book. In spite of that fact, her books are being implented as if they were "Bibles" in numerous districts throughout the USA. In fact, the bureaucrats of the state of Illinois are requiring that we teach her methods!Most of the material covered in her books is so very basic that most any teacher does a great deal of it already while this author gets rich.Teaching is an art not a Patricia Cunningham book. I recommend that you save your money and buy something creative and thought-provoking to make teaching exciting and not (any more) exhausting.

A superb resource for teachers and concerned parents (2002-06-08)

Now in a revised and updated third edition, Classrooms That Work by Patricia M. Cunningham (Professor of Education, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina) and Richard L. Allington (Irvin and Rose Fien Professor of Education, University of Florida) is a solid, practical no-nonsense guide to creating a positive educational environment in both public and private schools, with emphasis on teaching literacy in first through sixth grades. The authors offer useful strategies and techniques for helping children learn including cross-checking, means of accurately assessing reading skill, multilevel guided reading, and much more. Classrooms That Work is a superb resource for teachers and concerned parents seeking to improve the quality and learning atmosphere of the formal and informal classroom setting.

Excellent, especially for primary teachers (2000-09-19)

Pat has done a masterful job of combining the best balanced literacy practices into one easy-to-manage program. Her 4Blocks model is a surefire way to ensure that your students are learning from all angles. My only criticism is that the guided reading block does not quite fit for grades 3 and above. Pat says that your kids should read multiple books over the course of the week - each at different levels. However, beyond second grade, books are much longer, thus making it impossible to expose your students to such a wide range of levels each week.

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