What Research Has to Say About Reading Instruction

by S. Jay Samuels, Alan E. Farstrup (Editor)

What Research Has to Say About Reading Instruction, by Farstrup, Alan E. & Samuels, S. J. eds.

Genres: Teaching, Education, Nonfiction, Professional Development

Paperback

First published March 1, 2002

Reviews

[Malbadeen]

Two of my co-workers are reading this book. Occasionally they share a tid-bit with me. I exchange pleasantries, give my feedback on what that means/doesn't mean for our school and what would be ideal given what we know.
But what I really want to do is throw the book though the window and scream "STOP READING ABOUT READING"!
And then I want to implant a chip in all the teachers brains that makes them crave books and ooze their enthusiasm for books all over the kids and make them talk about their books with each other and with kids and make them ask kids about books and their thoughts on books.
I want to walk the halls and hear the words of Cynthia Rylant and Kate DiCamillo and Christopher Paul Curtis and William Steig and Bill Peet and Roald Dahl and so on and so on....being read and discussed and awed at.
I want to see hear kids ASKING for the next book in a series, wondering if that is the same author as such and such, if that illustrator did the book they think they did. I want them to CARE!
I don't want another assessment that tells me how well/poorly they segment phonemes or decode nonsense words. I want an assessment that measures how many books they checked out of the library, how varied their genre reading is, how passionate they are about what they're reading, how well they can articulate their passions, their distaste and their questions.
Then we can talk about what to do with the students that are falling behind in reading.

[Stephanie · Rating 5 out of 5]

loooooooooooooove it. used it for almost all my papers in grad school. you wouldn't think it would be interesting, but really? i promise, there's some good stuff. like, yhow do we even know what words are, anyways? how am i using them right now? hoe do you know what i mean, even? THE BRAIN IS CRAZY! READING IS UNBELIEVABLE!!!!

got a little carried away.

anyhow, i like this book.

[Rachel Robins · Rating 4 out of 5]

This certainly isn't reading for kicks---it's a dense collection of research on how reading is being taught. However, lots of good information here and it really expanded my understanding of instruction.

[Todd · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great overview of research into fluency instruction.

[Dan · Rating 4 out of 5]

What Research Has to Say About Reading Instruction is a great resource.

[Susan Honthumb · Rating 2 out of 5]

not much to say. not one of those page turners. it is too bad that a book about reading is so boring

[Colleen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read for C&T 740...pretty dry, but good foundation.

[Sandra Hacker · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good for its purpose but dry but I think you might expect that from the title.

[Amy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great resource!

[David Fox · Rating 3 out of 5]

Grad School Book #2. Not the worst.