All Products by Bess Altwerger

Rereading Fluency

Bess Altwerger , Nancy Jordan , Nancy Shelton

Pub Date: 10/17/2007
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: K-6th

  Rereading Fluency is an important and timely book…. The authors do not just criticize current policies and practices but offer alternatives for improving the quality of reading assessment and instruction. —Richard L. Allington   Has your school spent tens of thousands or more dollars on fluency-based... more

Reading for Profit

Bess Altwerger

Pub Date: 5/3/2005 1
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: K-6th

Why is reading instruction so often focused on the mechanical transmission of skills rather than on the development of meaningful literacy? To understand why, we need to know who: who decides how children will be taught, and who benefits from that decision? Reading for Profit demonstrates conclusively that the pedagogical is political.—Alfie... more