Organizing the Classroom for Effective Literacy Instruction: A Survival Guide

Authors

D. Ray Reutzel, Utah State University
Sarah K. Clark, Utah State UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

The Reading Teacher

Volume

2

Issue

65

Publication Date

2011

First Page

96

Last Page

109

Abstract

Classroom teachers are ordinary people who do extraordinary things. They are passionate and committed individuals who truly want to make a difference in the lives of their students. Many novice teachers enter the field of teaching with wide-eyed optimism, only to have their idealism dashed upon the cold, wet rocky shoreline of classroom management and organizational realities. A good many novice teachers, especially the highly academically qualified, leave the profession within the first five years for a variety of reasons, but one is most certainly unresolved concerns and struggles in organizing and managing a classroom (Borman & Dowling, 2008; Morrow, Reutzel, & Casey, 2006).

Recommended Citation

Reutzel, D. R., & Clark, S. K. (2011). Organizing the classroom for effective literacy instruction: A survival guide. The Reading Teacher, 65(2), 96-109. [First available online in October 2011 - DOI:10.1002/TRTR.01013.]