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1. Reclaiming Reading

   Teachers, Students, and Researchers Regaining Spaces for Thinking and Action

   Edited by Richard J. Meyer, Kathryn F. Whitmore

   Inviting teachers back to the role of reflective advocates for thoughtful reading instruction, this book presents theory and pedagogical possibilities to reclaim and build upon the knowledge base that was growing when government mandates, scripted commercial programs, and high stakes tests took...

   Published June 1st 2011 by Routledge
2. Official Portraits and Unofficial Counterportraits of At Risk Students

   Writing Spaces in Hard Times

   By Richard J. Meyer

   This book chronicles 5th and 6th grade writers - children of gang members, drug users, poor people, and non-documented and documented immigrants - in a rural school in the southwest US coming into their voices, cultivating those voices, and using those voices in a variety of venues, beginning with...

   Published October 29th 2009 by Routledge
3. Phonics Exposed

   Understanding and Resisting Systematic Direct Intense Phonics Instruction

   By Richard J. Meyer

   What are the implications of teaching phonics via a systematic direct intense program that mandates all children to experience the same scripted lesson at the same time? This book addresses the question through an in-depth play-by-play description of a phonics lesson as it occurred in a real...

   Published December 12th 2001 by Routledge
4. Phonics Exposed

   Understanding and Resisting Systematic Direct Intense Phonics Instruction

   By Richard J. Meyer

   What are the implications of teaching phonics via a systematic direct intense program that mandates all children to experience the same scripted lesson at the same time? This book addresses the question through an in-depth play-by-play description of a phonics lesson as it occurred in a real...

   Published September 30th 2001 by Routledge
5. Composing a Teacher Study Group

   Learning About Inquiry in Primary Classrooms

   By Richard J. Meyer, With Linda Brown, Elizabeth DeNino, Kimberly Larson, Mona McKenzie

   There has been a flurry of writing about teachers as inquirers and researchers as well as books about children as inquirers. This volume brings these two areas together -- teachers and students are inquiring at Ridgeway Elementary School. It demonstrates the importance of thought collectives as...

   Published September 30th 1997 by Routledge
6. Stories From the Heart

   Teachers and Students Researching their Literacy Lives

   By Richard J. Meyer

   Stories from the Heart is for, by, and about prospective and practicing teachers understanding themselves as curious and literate beings, making connections with colleagues, and researching their own literacy and the literacy lives of their students. It demonstrates the power and importance of...

   Published December 31st 1995 by Routledge