Building Literacy in Secondary Content Area Classrooms

About Thomas Gunning

Thomas G. Gunning has taught courses in methods of teaching reading and writing for more than 20 years and was director of the Reading Clinic at Southern Connecticut State University. Before that as a secondary English teacher a reading specialist and an elementary school reading consultant he worked extensively with achieving and struggling readers and writers. Dr. Gunning who recently served as a Reading First consultant is currently working with elementary and middle school students to help them develop higher level literacy skills as well as serving as an adjunct professor in the Reading/Language Arts Department at Central Connecticut State University. Over the years Dr. Gunnings research has explored reading interests informal reading inventories decoding strategies readability higher-level literacy skills and response to intervention. As a result of this research he has created a number of informal assessments and programs for developing decoding and comprehension skills.