Janet C. Richards, Joan P. Gipe

"....speaks directly to preservice, beginning, and experienced teachers, to supervisors of student teachers, university professors, and reading specialists."—Journal of Reading Education"This volume presents stories...short narratives of actual teaching problems selected because they have a high probability of relevance for beginning teachers. In response to the stories, teacher educators and experienced teachers comment. The result is a useful blend of theory and practice... Both the stories and the responses are convincingly real. Readers will find themselves arguing with some of the writers and generating their own solutions to the problems described so vividly. As I read the stories, I thought again and again how hard it is to teach young students who are compelled to attend classes and how enormously hard it is to teach well in certain circumstances... This practical, inspiring book will help."—Nel NoddingsStanford University, From the Foreword

• Contents: N. Noddings, Foreword: Working Together From Stories. Preface. Introduction: Writing and Sharing Personal Teaching Cases. Working With Young Literacy Learners. Individual and Group Management Concerns. Speaking and Listening. Reading Instruction. Guiding Students' Spelling and Decoding Development. Teaching and Promoting Writing. Working With Special Needs Students. Literacy Instruction and the Arts: Viewing and Visually Representing. Linguistic Diversity. Social and Educational Factors Affecting Students' Literacy. Providing for Students' Varying Literacy Abilities.

Janet C. Richards, Joan P. Gipe

"....speaks directly to preservice, beginning, and experienced teachers, to supervisors of student teachers, university professors, and reading specialists."—Journal of Reading Education"This volume presents stories...short narratives of actual teaching problems selected because they have a high probability of relevance for beginning teachers. In response to the stories, teacher educators and experienced teachers comment. The result is a useful blend of theory and practice... Both the stories and the responses are convincingly real. Readers will find themselves arguing with some of the writers and generating their own solutions to the problems described so vividly. As I read the stories, I thought again and again how hard it is to teach young students who are compelled to attend classes and how enormously hard it is to teach well in certain circumstances... This practical, inspiring book will help."—Nel NoddingsStanford University, From the Foreword

• Contents: N. Noddings, Foreword: Working Together From Stories. Preface. Introduction: Writing and Sharing Personal Teaching Cases. Working With Young Literacy Learners. Individual and Group Management Concerns. Speaking and Listening. Reading Instruction. Guiding Students' Spelling and Decoding Development. Teaching and Promoting Writing. Working With Special Needs Students. Literacy Instruction and the Arts: Viewing and Visually Representing. Linguistic Diversity. Social and Educational Factors Affecting Students' Literacy. Providing for Students' Varying Literacy Abilities.

Janet C. Richards, Joan P. Gipe

"....speaks directly to preservice, beginning, and experienced teachers, to supervisors of student teachers, university professors, and reading specialists."—Journal of Reading Education"This volume presents stories...short narratives of actual teaching problems selected because they have a high probability of relevance for beginning teachers. In response to the stories, teacher educators and experienced teachers comment. The result is a useful blend of theory and practice... Both the stories and the responses are convincingly real. Readers will find themselves arguing with some of the writers and generating their own solutions to the problems described so vividly. As I read the stories, I thought again and again how hard it is to teach young students who are compelled to attend classes and how enormously hard it is to teach well in certain circumstances... This practical, inspiring book will help."—Nel NoddingsStanford University, From the Foreword

• Contents: N. Noddings, Foreword: Working Together From Stories. Preface. Introduction: Writing and Sharing Personal Teaching Cases. Working With Young Literacy Learners. Individual and Group Management Concerns. Speaking and Listening. Reading Instruction. Guiding Students' Spelling and Decoding Development. Teaching and Promoting Writing. Working With Special Needs Students. Literacy Instruction and the Arts: Viewing and Visually Representing. Linguistic Diversity. Social and Educational Factors Affecting Students' Literacy. Providing for Students' Varying Literacy Abilities.