#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0; #xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0;Robin Wisniewski - Gay Fawcett -Nancy Padak - Timothy Rasinski Evidence-Based Instruction in Reading: A Professional Development Guide to Culturally Responsive Instruction #xA0; #xA0; Incorporate a multi-tiered approach to literacy instruction using a culturally responsive approach! Literacy experts, Robin Wisniewski, Gay Fawcett, Nancy Padak, and#xA0;Timothy Rasinski,#xA0;explore the major components essential to creating an effective literacy program that supports all students. The authors present teachers with easy-to-implement instructional strategies and research-based practices to assess students'cultures and reading skills, as well as teachers'instruction and diversity readiness. In particular, the authors focus on identifying effective elements of instruction and offer suggestions for instructional modifications in the classroom.#xA0;#xA0; #xA0; The series, Evidence-Based Instruction in Reading,is a professional development program designed to help teachers meet the literacy instruction guidelines as identified by the National Reading Panel (2000). Each of the books in the series focuses on one key component: learners with special needs, phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension and offers recommendations for incorporating appropriate reading materials, fostering productive home-school connections, and promoting a desire for students to learn to read and write throughout the five part series. This coverage makes this series the perfect professional development resource for teachers in the elementary classroom!#xA0; #xA0; #xA0; Robin Wisniewskiis an Assistant Professor of Education at Baldwin-Wallace College where she directs the Leadership in Higher Education graduate program. As a licensed psychologist and nationally certified school psychologist, her major interests, specialties, and teaching areas are in the psychology of learning and leadership. She frequently works with teachers and school leaders, and has taught and led over 100 courses and workshops in various areas such as standardized and authentic assessment, program evaluation and research, diversity and cultural responsiveness, identity development, counseling, K-12 and college literacy, educational intervention, and curriculum development.
#xA0; Gay Fawcett,in education for over 36 years, currently teaches online and face-to-face courses for four major universities and provides curriculum consultation for schools and school districts.#xA0; She has authored and/or co-authored more than 90 articles, books, and book chapters for educational publications including the Kappan, Educational Leadership, Language Arts,and The Reading Teacher.#xA0;Her dissertation on middle school literacy received three awards, including ASCD#x19;s Outstanding Dissertation Award.#xA0; #xA0; Nancy Padakrecently retired from Kent State University, where she was a Distinguished Professor in the College and Graduate School of Education, Health, and Human Services, Director of KSU#x19;s Reading and Writing Center, and teacher in the area of literacy education. She was a part of the team that wrote the initial grant to fund the state literacy resource center at Kent State University-Ohio Literacy Resource Center (OLRC) and has been a middle school and high school classroom teacher and administrator in a large urban school district. #xA0; Timothy Rasinskiis a professor of education in the Department of Teaching, Leadership, and Curriculum Studies. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in literacy education. His major interests include working with children who find reading difficult, phonics and reading fluency instruction, and teacher development in literacy education.
He has published over 100 articles and 10 books on various aspects of reading education. Dr. Rasinski is past editor of The Reading Teacherand is currently an editor for the Journal of Literacy Research. He has served as president of the College Reading Association, and he currently serves on the Board of Directors of the International Reading Association.