Raising Literacy Achievement in High-Poverty Schools: An Evidence-Based Approach [Paperback]

This book shares lessons gleaned from a two-year intervention in a high-poverty school, which was highly successful in significantly narrowing the literacy achievement gap and in raising childrens motivation and engagement in literacy both inside and outside school. Kennedy argues that there is much that disadvantaged schools can do to close the gap, but this is more likely to occur when a research-based approach to instruction (with a dual emphasis on cognitive skills and motivation and engagement), assessment and professional development is undertaken.

1. Introduction  2. Evidence-Based Professional Development  3. Effective Schools and Effective Teachers of Literacy  4. Current Research on Literacy  5. School and Classroom Context  6. The Change Process  7. Impact on the Teaching of Reading  8. Impact on the Pedagogy of Writing  9. Perceptions of Affective Changes in the Children  10. Impact on Teachers and School Community  11. Changes in Achievement  12. Raising Literacy Achievement: Lessons from the Research

This book shares lessons gleaned from a two-year intervention in a high-poverty school, which was highly successful in significantly narrowing the literacy achievement gap and in raising childrens motivation and engagement in literacy both inside and outside school. Kennedy argues that there is much that disadvantaged schools can do to close the gap, but this is more likely to occur when a research-based approach to instruction (with a dual emphasis on cognitive skills and motivation and engagement), assessment and professional development is undertaken.