This unique resource provides a comprehensive review of current knowledge about phonological awareness, together with practical guidance for helping preschoolers to adolescents acquire needed skills. Up-to-date findings are synthesized on the development of phonological awareness; its role in literacy learning; and how it can be enhanced in…

Explains how reading specialists can enhance both diagnosis and instruction of students. Argues that students, teachers, team members, and parents benefit when reading specialists are a part of multidisciplinary teams. Outlines potential contributions of reading specialists and how such specialists can offer specific assistance. Provides…

This study describes and analyzes the influence of an ideological conflict between a teacher education program and a school district upon one pre-service teacher's emerging identity as a teacher of literacy. Using poststructural feminism as the theoretical framework and a single case study analysis, the study illustrates how the discourse of the…