Carl Smith is Director of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English and Communication Skills, and Director of the Family Learning Association. He received his BA from the University of Dayton, his MA in English from Miami University, and his Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University. His academic positions include seven years of classroom experience in Cleveland and Dayton, teaching in Geneva, Switzerland, Special Reading Teacher in Cleveland Public Schools, and Professor of Education, Indiana University.
AWARDS AND ORGANIZATIONS
The National Education Association awarded Carl Smith the School Bell Award for Service to Education through journalism in 1965. His book, Reading Instruction Through Diagnostic Teaching, was chosen as one of "the outstanding books in education" in 1972 by the Pi Lambda Theta national education honorary society. In 1998 he received the Indiana Literacy Award for outstanding contributions to reading education.
PUBLICATIONS
Carl Smith has authored more than forty books and over two hundred articles. He has written instructional materials for children and is the senior author of basic reading programs published by Macmillan/McGraw-Hill. Two of his college texts have been used in more than 500 universities. His recent work focuses on family learning and is published in CONNECT! How to Get Your Kids to Talk to You, How to Teach Your Child to Read and Succeed, Parents as Tutors (Videotape), Spelling Guidebook for Parents, The Self-directed Learner Curriculum, and the Helping your child to learn series: four books for parents explaining the reading, studying, learning process. All these titles are available from the Family Learning Association, Bloomington, Indiana.
