Developing Readers and Writers in the Content Areas K-12

David W. Moore is as a Professor of Education at Arizona State University where he teaches secondary school teacher education courses and advises doctoral students.  His vita shows a thirty year publication record that balances research reports, professional articles, and books.  He is active in many professional organizations and consulting.

Sharon Arthur Moore retired after serving four decades as an educator including classroom teacher, Title I teacher, university faculty member, literacy coach, and literacy director in two school districts. She currently provides staff development for school districts and is writing fiction.  Her vita includes research reports, professional articles, and books.

Patricia Cunningham grew up in Rhode Island. For seven years, after graduating from The University of Rhode Island, she taught a variety of elementary grades in Florida and Indiana.  She received her Ph. D in Reading Education from the University Of  Georgia in 1974.  After teaching at Ohio University and serving as Director of Reading for Alamance Co., North Carolina Schools, she came to Wake Forest University to direct the Elementary Education program in 1978.  Pat’s particular interest has always been in finding alternative ways to teach children for whom learning to read is difficult.  Reading and Writing in Elementary Classrooms, first published in 1978, is currently in its fourth edition.   In 1991, She published Phonics they Use:  Words for Reading and Writing, which is currently available in its fourth edition.  Along with Richard Allington, She published Classrooms that Work and Schools that Work.  Along with Dorothy Hall, she developed the Four Blocks Literacy framework, which is currently used as the balanced literacy framework in thousand of classrooms throughout the country.  She and Dorothy Hall are co-directors of the Four Blocks Literacy Center, which is housed at Wake Forest University.

James W. Cunningham has over 100 professional publications in reading and writing education such as college textbooks, book chapters including major research reviews, and original research published in major research journals. He has been a professor of education at UNC-Chapel Hill and an elementary classroom teacher.

1. Content Area Reading and Writing
2. Setting the Stage
3. Instructional Units
4. Reading Materials and Exhibiting Responses
5. Comprehension
6. Meaning Vocabulary
7. Writing
8. Studying
9. Inquiry through Digital Literacies
10. Responsive Instruction
11. Reading Proficiency
12. Reading Policy

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