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About
the Authors
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Nancy Dean is a middle and high school literacy
specialist at the P.K. Yonge
Developmental Research School, University of
Florida. She has taught reading, English, and ESL for
thirty-four
years and currently coordinates the secondary reading
program at P.K. Yonge, a
demonstration site for the Florida Reading Initiative.
Nancy serves on the leadership teams for the National
Literacy Project and the Florida Reading Initiative. In
addition, she is a national consultant in secondary
literacy, specializing in training for literacy coaches,
using tutorials to enhance literacy, and literacy
enrichment through the study of voice in reading and
writing. She is the author of the popular text
Voice
Lessons: Classroom Activities to Teach Diction, Detail,
Imagery, Syntax, and Tone and
Discovering Voice:
Introductory Voice Lessons.
Dr.
Candace Harper has been an educator in English as a Second
Language for 25 years. She has taught in the U.S.,
Australia, Bosnia, and France and is currently a teacher
educator in the College of Education at the University of
Florida. She is especially interested in literacy
development and has published research articles and book
chapters on curriculum and instruction for English
language learners.
Testimonials
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"Over the past
year I have done a lot of different assignments in a lot
of different classes that were supposed to get me ready
for the real world. Succeeding in Reading is a
class that actually lets you go out into that real world
and put what you know to work.
Hopefully
some time in the future, I will be able to work with kids
again because I believe that it takes a kid to teach
another kid something. I think that the Succeeding in
Reading program in general is great. Even if you can't
see any change right away, I can assure you that it does
take place, and that it is all for the better."
-
Michael Merrit,
Grade 12, P.K. Yonge DRS
"I have never
been as convinced of anything in twenty years of teaching
as I am of cross-age work. There are other cross-age
programs in other high schools where big ones are going to
read with little ones . . . buy they're just simply going
to read, that's all. That's not what I consider successful
. . . students need solid training with thought put into
it and organized strategies presented to them in a
systematic way."
- Mercedes Pichard,
ELL Teacher
"Succeeding in Reading addresses the limitations
of most volunteer programs by providing evidence of
the effectiveness of cross-age tutoring for developing
both the tutors' and the tutees' literacy
proficiencies including the literacy development of
ELL tutors and their tutees."
- Dick Allington, Professor of
Education, University of Tennessee |
