Preparing Reading Professionals

Preparing Reading Professionals, created to complement Standards 2010, brings together key book chapters, journal articles, and news briefs to give you an in-depth picture of the demands of each standard. Each section provides further readings as well as reflection questions ideal for teacher education, book-study groups, and personal professional development.

A must-have for school staff developers, teacher educators, researchers-or anyone developing or evaluating programs to improve literacy instruction and learning.

The International Reading Association is the world's premier organization of literacy professionals. Our titles promote reading by providing professional development to continuously advance the quality of literacy instruction and research.

Research-based, classroom-tested, and peer-reviewed, IRA titles are among the highest quality tools that help literacy professionals do their jobs better.

Some of the many areas we publish in include:

-Comprehension
-Response To Intervention/Struggling Readers
-Early Literacy
-Adolescent Literacy
-Assessment
-Literacy Coaching
-Research And Policy