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This book is one of the most comprehensive texts discussing the design, selection and adoption of expository textbooks.

The Legend of Patrick Tierney is a story of a Golden Retriever that is elected to the office of Town Councilman in what becomes a bitter political race. Patrick's loyal ways win him many friends, and his courageous adventures bring him the fame and notoriety that make him a beloved legend to this day.

This book provides descriptive cases, accompanied by analytic commentaries, of nine upper-elementary grade reading lessons that represent an array of sound teaching practices. The cases focus on various reading topics and were written from authentic lessons taught by regular classroom teachers to diverse groups of students. Each lesson contains elements of sound instructional practice as well as potential dilemmas from which both preservice and in-service teachers can benefit.

"I don't always know [students] by face; I know them by data," an elementary curriculum specialist explains ruefully in this broad examination of how No Child Left Behind impacts schools and shapes teaching practice. Capturing the changes teachers are experiencing, especially in the areas of mathematics and reading, the authors compare and contrast three schools with diverse student populations according to school norms and structures, professional roles and responsibilities, curriculum, staff development, and teaching and learning.Including rich observational data and personal accounts from...