Texts for Course Adoption

IRA publishes foundational works by established leaders and exciting new research and ideas for practice from ground-breakers. Our books are ideal as core or supplemental texts—and they’re affordable for student budgets.

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Critical Topics

• Text Complexity, Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Diane Lapp
• Developing Readers in the Academic Disciplines, Doug Buehl
• The Essential Readings series
• Reading and Writing With Understanding, Sally Hampton and Lauren Resnick
• Speaking and Listening for Preschool Through Third Grade, Lauren Resnick and Catherine Snow
• Building a Foundation for Preschool Literacy, Carol Vukelich and James Christie
• RTI in Literacy—Responsive and Comprehensive, Peter Johnston, ed.
• Children's Literature in the Reading Program, Deborah Wooten and Bernice Cullinan, eds.

Outstanding Practice

• Guided Comprehension for English Learners, Maureen McLaughlin
• Reciprocal Teaching at Work, Lori Oczkus
• Preventing Misguided Reading, Jan Burkins and Melody Croft
• Guided Comprehension in the Primary Grades, Maureen McLaughlin
• Creating Strategic Readers, Valerie Ellery
• Small-Group Reading Instruction, Beverly Tyner

The Foundations

• Best Ever Literacy Survival Tips: 72 Lessons You Can't Teach Without, Lori D. Oczkus
• What Research Has to Say About Reading Instruction (4th Ed.; Samuels & Farstrup, eds.)
• Changing Literacies for Changing Times, James Hoffman and Yetta Goodman, eds.

Most Frequently Adopted

• Understanding and Using Reading Assessment, K–12, (2nd Ed.; Peter Afflerbach)
• Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning, Doug Buehl
• Reading and Writing Grade by Grade, Lauren Resnick and Sally Hampton
• Guided Comprehension in Grades 3–8, Maureen McLaughlin and Mary Beth Allen
• What Research Has to Say About Reading Instruction, Alan Farstrup and Jay Samuels, eds.
• Theoretical Models and Processes of Reading, Robert Ruddell and Norman Unrau, eds. (not available as an exam copy)

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