Smart Answers to Tough Questions: What to Say When You're Asked About Fluency, Phonics, Grammar, Vocabulary, SSR, Tests, Support for ELLs, and More

by Elaine Garan

Overview

Provides clear answers to the most frequently asked questions about literacy instruction. Literacy coaches and administrators will also find the book an indispensable resource for professional development workshops, newsletters, and grant applications. This time-saving, comprehensive desktop essential is well-organized, easy to read, and packed with relevant quotes for newsletters, workshops, and grant applications.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780545178730
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	07/01/2007
Sold by:	Scholastic, Inc.
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Elaine Garan was the recipient of the 2005 Upton Sinclair award for education as one of the ten most influential educators in the country, the Excellence Award for research and scholarship from California Professors of Reading and Language Arts as well as numerous other awards for scholarship. A reading specialist for 12 years, Elaine Garan is associate professor of literacy and early education at California State University, Fresno. She is an award-winning researcher and author of In Defense of Our Children: When Politics, Profit and Education Collide and Resisting Reading Mandates: How to Triumph with the Truth.