The Principal's Guide to Raising Reading Achievement

by Elaine K. McEwan-Adkins

Overview

Set the tone for making sure reading levels go up in your school by using these commonsense methods to change how your elementary students learn to read.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803966284
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	04/16/1998
Series:	Instructional Leadership Series
Pages:	120
Product dimensions:	8.10(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Elaine K. Mc Ewan is an educational consultant with The Mc Ewan-Adkins Group, offering professional development for educators to assist them in meeting the challenges of literacy learning in Grades Pre K-6. A former teacher, librarian, principal, and assistant superintendent for instruction in several suburban Chicago school districts, Elaine is the award-winning and best-selling author of more than three dozen books for educators. Her Corwin Press titles include Raising Reading Achievement in Middle and High Schools: Five Simple-to-Follow Strategies for Principals, Second Edition (2006), Seven Strategies of Highly Effective Readers: Using Cognitive Research to Boost K-8 Achievement (2004), Ten Traits of Highly Effective Principals: From Good to Great Performance (2003), Making Sense of Research: What’s Good, What’s Not, and How to Tell the Difference (2003), Seven Steps to Effective Instructional Leadership, Second Edition (2003), Teach Them ALL to Read: Catching the Kids Who Fall through the Cracks (2002), and Ten Traits of Highly Effective Teachers: How to Hire, Mentor, and Coach Successful Teachers (2001).

Mc Ewan was honored by the Illinois Principals Association as an outstanding instructional leader, by the Illinois State Board of Education with an Award of Excellence in the Those Who Excel Program, and by the National Association of Elementary School Principals as the National Distinguished Principal from Illinois for 1991. She received her undergraduate degree in education from Wheaton College and advanced degrees in library science (MA) and educational administration (Ed D) from Northern Illinois University.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Why Our Kids Aren't Learning to Read
The Great Debate
Phonics Versus Whole Language
What Do You Need to Make it Happen?
The Essential Learnings
What Students Need to Know: Grades K-8
Remedial Reading
What to Do When Kids Can't Read
Thirty Plus Things You Can Do Tommorow To Raise Reading Achievement

Editorial Reviews

I found the Principal's Guide to Raising Reading Achievement to be an excellent source of information for any elementary school principal who is concerned about the level of reading achievement in his/her school. The book contains not only an excellent and balanced discussion of some of the major controversies in the area of reading instruction, but also shows how these controversies should not be a stumbling block to providing a balanced, comprehensive instructional program for children.

Joseph Torgesen