Well-respected authors Dick Robinson, Mike McKenna, and Kristin Conradi have compiled the opinions and positions of today's leading researchers and writers on many crucial aspects of reading and writing education-in a new edition that presents the most current information available.
In the new Fifth Edition of this widely popular book, pre-service and graduate in-service teachers at both the elementary and high school levels get the most up-to-date information available on all crucial aspects of reading and writing education from the expert educators at the forefront of the field. Dick Robinson, Mike McKenna, and Kristin Conradi have masterfully pulled together an all-new group of scrupulously researched articles on the topics of word recognition, fluency, comprehension, vocabulary, English learners, literacy coaching, adolescent literacy, technology and literacy, writing, and response to intervention. Robinson, McKenna, and Conradi start each chapter with an introduction to the leading issues currently being addressed by literacy educators at all levels of instruction and practice and then present the wide variety of opinions and positions drawn from some of today's leading researchers and writers in the field of literacy.