Why Reading Is Hard

Video
Produced by Carolyn Temple Adger, Nancy Clair, and David Smith

Viewers Guide
By Nancy Clair

These materials offer essential insights into reading for professional developers, teacher educators, teachers, and others dedicated to improving literacy instruction for all students. Teachers can use them in study groups to explore the reading challenges their students face and how to address them.   ORDER

What Teachers Need to Know About Language
Edited by Carolyn Temple Adger, Catherine E. Snow, and Donna Christian

In the book's first chapter, Lily Wong Fillmore and Catherine E. Snow argue that all teachers need a depth and breadth of expertise about language to support their students' language and literacy development. Other authors provide commentaries on Fillmore and Snow's chapter from their perspective as experts in early childhood education, teacher education and certification, and professional development for teachers.   ORDER