Raising Literacy Achievement in High-Poverty Schools

Eithne Kennedy is a teacher educator specialising in literacy education at St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, Dublin, where she teaches on a range of literacy courses at under-graduate and post-graduate levels.

• 1. Introduction 2. Evidence-Based Professional Development 3. Effective Schools and Effective Teachers of Literacy 4. Current Research on Literacy 5. School and Classroom Context 6. The Change Process 7. Impact on the Teaching of Reading 8. Impact on the Pedagogy of Writing 9. Perceptions of Affective Changes in the Children 10. Impact on Teachers and School Community 11. Changes in Achievement 12. Raising Literacy Achievement: Lessons from the Research

'Kennedy has produced one of those rare things: a book that deserves equally to be read by researchers, practitioners, managers, policy makers, and teacher educators. It is both scholarly and pragmatic, it is beautifully written and offers importnant and timely lessons for each of thee core groups. I would urge everyone to read it.'-Sue Ellis, University of Strathclyde, Literacy UKLA