Promising Practices for Urban Reading Instruction

Pamela A. Mason and Jeanne Shay Schumm, editors

This text is an essential resource for overcoming challenges in today’s standards-based, high-stakes education climate.

Learn what works in urban classrooms with this collection of articles organized around the 10 children’s literacy rights outlined in the IRA position statement Making a Difference Means Making It Different. An annotated bibliography of related IRA books and articles and a list of websites provide additional information about promising practices in urban reading instruction.

An IRA Book Club selection, August 2003

© 2003 | 576 pp.
ISBN 10: 0-87207-518-4 | ISBN 13: 978-0-87207-518-4

Also of interest:

Improving Literacy Achievement in Urban Schools

Literacy Development of Students in Urban Schools

Learning to Be Literacy Teachers in Urban Schools