Gloria A. Neubert

I read most of this during the last 8 weeks of my teacher's program. It's pretty dry reading, and to someone who wants to teach English, many of the strategies are familiar. While it sometimes seems that the authors would have teachers act like automatons while teaching a directed reading lesson, it is useful to know which strategies have been studied and shown to work. I can see this work being more useful perhaps to a teacher of history, government, or science where there is a fair amount of reading for the students, but where the teacher is not prepared to teach reading as a skill for students to develop.… (more)