On Developing Readers: Readings from Educational Leadership (EL Essentials)

This collection of articles on the teaching of reading pulls together some of the best-and most clicked-on-articles on reading that Educational Leadership has published in the past few years from more than a dozen of the most respected experts in the field including Richard L. Allington Nell K. Duke and Sally E. Shaywitz. The articles cover what research says about the teaching of both reading and reading comprehension-from teaching phonics to improving fluency to tackling complex texts. On Developing Readers offers strategies for teaching informational texts as well as fiction. Most important it also addresses how to inspire the love of reading.