No Child Left Behind: Comprehensive Reading Instruction Helping Every Child Succeed

1. No Child Left Behind: Comprehensive Reading Instruction Helping Every Child Succeed Reutzel & Cooter, Strategies for Reading Assessment and Instruction (3rd Ed.)

2. The Reading Wars: A Time of Turmoil • Balanced reading instruction: A compromise • Comprehensive reading instruction • A possible solution? Reutzel & Cooter, Strategies for Reading Assessment and Instruction (3rd Ed.)

3. The Development of Comprehensive Reading Instruction • Comprehensive reading instruction • Definition • Varying opinions • Six characteristics • The national goal • Critical role of teachers • Role of assessment • Implementation of partnerships • Research-based practices • Development of reading skills and love of reading Reutzel & Cooter, Strategies for Reading Assessment and Instruction (3rd Ed.)

4. Seven Essential Elements of Comprehensive Reading Instruction • Pursuit of a national goal • School-home-community partnerships • Schoolwide reforms • Teacher knowledge • Milestones of reading development • Purposeful assessment • Student motivation Reutzel & Cooter, Strategies for Reading Assessment and Instruction (3rd Ed.)

5. Creating and SustainingSchool-Home-Community Partnerships • Reasons for partnerships • Examples of successful partnerships • America reads • DEAR Dallas! • Video outreach • Reading backpacks • Refrigerator reading Reutzel & Cooter, Strategies for Reading Assessment and Instruction (3rd Ed.)

6. Schoolwide Reading Program Reforms • Access to print • Access to professional development • Informed leadership • Access to peer coaches • Greater planning time • Reducing class size in early years Reutzel & Cooter, Strategies for Reading Assessment and Instruction (3rd Ed.)

7. Teacher Knowledge is the Key • Importance of the teacher’s skill • Importance of the teacher’s knowledge • Research base on this subject • Documented needs to be successful as a literacy teacher Reutzel & Cooter, Strategies for Reading Assessment and Instruction (3rd Ed.)

8. The Reading Development Continuum • Preindependent reading stages • Magical stage • Examples • Self-concepting stage • Examples • Bridging stage • Examples Reutzel & Cooter, Strategies for Reading Assessment and Instruction (3rd Ed.)

9. The Reading Development Continuum (continued) • Independent reading stages • Take-off stage • Examples • Independent reading stage • Examples • Skilled reading stage • Examples Reutzel & Cooter, Strategies for Reading Assessment and Instruction (3rd Ed.)

10. End-of-Year Reading Benchmark Skills • What should good readers be able to do? • Kindergarten accomplishments • First grade accomplishments • Second grade accomplishments • Third grade accomplishments Reutzel & Cooter, Strategies for Reading Assessment and Instruction (3rd Ed.)