Bringing reading research to life /

This book brings together some of the world's foremost literacy scholars to discuss how research influences what teachers actually do in the classroom. Chapters describe the current state of knowledge about such key topics as decoding, vocabulary, comprehension, digital literacies, reading disa...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: McKeown, Margaret G., Kucan, Linda
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Guilford Press, 2010
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Table of Contents:
  • A tribute to the diva of scientifically based instruction / Jean Osborn, Marcy Stein
  • Taking a long view of reading development / Connie Juel
  • Research on students with reading disabilities / Sharon Vaughn
  • Lessons from the reading reform field / Janice A. Dole
  • The word games / William E. Nagy
  • The role of word meanings in comprehension / Mary E. Curtis
  • What is a good question? / Art Graesser, Yasuhiro Ozuru, Jeremiah Sullins
  • Developing a model of quality talk about literary text / Ian A.G. Wilkinson, Anna O. Soter, P. Karen Murphy
  • Collaborative reasoning about a science and public policy issue / May Jadallah [and others]
  • Comprehension processes and classroom contexts / Walter Kintsch
  • Understanding the word-level features of texts for students who depend on schools to become literate / Elfrieda H. Heibert
  • Text in the science classroom: promoting engagement to facilitate conceptual change / Suzanne H. Broughton, Gale M. Sinatra
  • Literacy in the digital world: comprehending and learning from multiple sources / Susan R. Goldman [and others]
  • The work of constructing connections between research and practice: what we can learn from Isabel L. Beck / Leona Schauble
  • Decoding, vocabulary, and comprehension: the golden triangle of reading skill / Charles Perfetti
  • Another side of Isabel / Elizabeth Beck, Mark Beck.