Curriculum Development in the Area of Reading

This article describes curriculum development in the area of reading. It takes the perspective that reading curriculum is a process of development that relies on the expertise of multiple stakeholders and is based on diverse students' needs. The content of reading curricula includes – but is not limited to – conventional components such as decoding, word knowledge, and comprehension strategies. Reading curricula for the twenty-first century, however, builds upon these components to address current contexts, texts, and literacy practices in order to best serve today's linguistically, economically, and ethnically diverse learners. The standards-based change process is presented as illustrative of an effective developmental approach to constructing a school's reading curriculum.

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