Classics in Literacy Education Historical Perspectives for Today's Teachers

There can be but two real goals toward which we aim in teaching reading-or, more precisely, a single goal with two aspects: to teach children to read well and to love to read. Arthur Gates (1890-1972). These two threads are the common theme that runs throughout the writings of past educators included in Classics in Literacy Education: Historical Perspectives for Today's Teachers. Excerpts from classic authors A. Sterl Artley, Emmett Betts, Richard de Bury, Arthur Gates, William S. Gray, Helen Robinson, David H. Russell, Nila Banton Smith, and George Spache touch on a variety of topics facing today's reading teachers. In addition to presenting selections of each writer's work, author Robinson provides an overview of the writer's professional life and includes a list of annotated resources for further reading. Each chapter ends with "Reflections" to stimulate teachers to think about the words of past educators, and reevaluate their own classroom instruction. Classics in Literacy Education shows all reading educators-specifically inservice teachers, preservice teachers, reading researchers, and those involved in reading teacher preparation-that the perspectives of classic writers in the history of reading instruction are important and relevant to their current practice.Robinson, Richard David is the author of 'Classics in Literacy Education Historical Perspectives for Today's Teachers' with ISBN 9780872071742 and ISBN 087207174X.