Teaching Reading in Today's Elementary Schools

Betty Roe is Professor Emerita at Tennessee Technological University. She formerly was the Director of the Ph.D. in Exceptional Learning Program and Professor of Curriculum and Instruction. She earned her Ed.D. at the University of Tennessee in Curriculum and Instruction with Reading emphasis. She is the senior author of SECONDARY SCHOOL LITERACY INSTRUCTION, 10th Edition; INFORMAL READING INVENTORY, 8th Edition; and TEACHING READING IN TODAY'S ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, 12th Edition; all published by Cengage Learning. She is also senior author of TEACHING READING IN TODAY'S MIDDLE SCHOOLS; AN INTRODUCTION TO TEACHING THE LANGUAGE ARTS; INTEGRATING LANGUAGE ARTS THROUGH LITERATURE AND THEMATIC UNITS; TEACHING THROUGH STORIES: YOURS, MINE, AND THEIRS; and STUDENT TEACHING AND FIELD EXPERIENCES HANDBOOK, 7th Edition. She has experience teaching in the intermediate grades and tutoring first through twelfth graders in a reading clinic. She currently does workshops on the use of storytelling to meet standards across the curriculum -- in language arts and content areas. Throughout her career she has been active in the International Literacy Association and the Tennessee Reading Association.Sandra Hope Huddleston Smith is a professor in the School of Humanities, Education, and the Arts at Cumberland University, where she serves as Director of the Special Education program. She taught 20 years in K-12 special education and elementary education classrooms before joining a full-time university faculty in 1996. She currently teaches courses in special education and literacy at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. She has co-authored TEACHING THROUGH STORIES: YOURS, MINE, AND THEIRS; TEACHING READING IN TODAY'S MIDDLE SCHOOLS; STUDENT TEACHING AND FIELD EXPERIENCES HANDBOOK (6th and 7th Editions); and TEACHING READING IN TODAY'S ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS (beginning with the 9th Edition). Professor Smith is also an active member of the International Literacy Association and Tennessee Reading Association.