Classrooms That Work: They Can All Read and Write, 3rd editionAuthor: Patricia M. Cunningham and Richard L. Allington
Format: Paperback
Published: Allyn & Bacon, 2003

With and understanding that children do not all learn in the same way, Cunningham and Allington address struggling and non-struggling readers and readers from diverse backgrounds, making this a text designed for the teaching of every child. The new edition offers a new organization of chapters that reflects an integrative approach to literacy, based on the simple but proven idea that the more children read and write the better they will read and write. Cunningham and Allington promot ethe integration of phonics and literature-based process writing and reading instrugction for a balanced approach to teaching literacy. The book hleps all chidlren engage in meaning-centered reading by showing teachers how to foster children's use of powerful decoding and comprehension strategies and is filled with workale, practical strategies and activities for use in the classroom.