Coming Together As Readers details the ways in which teachers, parents, and communities can collaborate in supporting efforts to develop students' literacy skills and optimize reading proficiency. Ogle draws on her experience as a teacher, professor, and former president of the International Reading Association to provide practical tools and classroom and leadership literacy practices for forging partnerships to build successful reading at all grade levels.

This resource also explains how to use university partnerships to help shape, inform, and support reading, as well as Web sites and tips for working with government and professional organizations.

It:

- suggests ways to include parents

- provides protocols for teachers examining

student work together

- shows how teachers can share their own

personal reading with students

- new chapter looks at how to gain greatest

support from libraries and librarians