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Summer reading : closing the rich/poor reading achievement gap / edited by Richard L. Allington, Anne McGill-Franzen ; foreword by Gerald G. Duffy.

Allington, Richard L. (Added Author). McGill-Franzen, Anne. (Added Author).

Summary:

This book reviews what is known about summer reading loss, and provides reliable interventions and guidance on addressing it.

Record details

ISBN: 9780807753743 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0807753742 (pbk.)
Physical Description: xii, 129 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: New York, NY : Teachers College Press ; c2013.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Summer reading loss / Richard L Allington and Anne McGill-Franzen -- Interventions that increase children's access to print material and improve their reading proficiencies / James J. Lindsay -- What have we learned about addressing summer reading loss? / Anne McGill-Franzen and Richard L. Allington -- The importance of book selections: enticing struggling readers to say, "I want to read that one!" / Lunetta Williams -- Taking to the streets! one principal's path to stemming summer reading loss -- For primary grade students from low-income communities / Geri Melosh -- Making summer reading personal and local: one district's response / Lynn Bigelman -- Where do we go from here? / Richard L Allington and Anne McGill-Franzen -- Appendix: evidence summary for annual book fairs in high-poverty elementary schools.