Bringing Reading Research to Life
ISBN: 9781606234747 | 1606234749
Edition: 1stFormat: Trade Book
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Pub. Date: 11/20/2009
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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 disabilities, and reading reform. At the same time, the authors offer a unique "inside view" of their own research careers: key personal and professional influences, how their research agendas took shape, and what they see as the most important questions curr... MORE
| A Tribute to the Diva of Scientifically Based Instruction | p. 1 |
| Taking a Long View of Reading Development | p. 11 |
| Research on Students with Reading Disabilities | p. 33 |
| Lessons from the Reading Reform Field | p. 52 |
| The Word Games | p. 72 |
| The Role of Word Meanings in Comprehension | p. 92 |
| What Is a Good Question? | p. 112 |
| Developing a Model of Quality Talk about Literary ... MORE | p. 142 |
| Collaborative Reasoning about a Science and Public Policy Issue | p. 170 |
| Comprehension Processes and Classroom Contexts | p. 194 |
| Understanding the Word-Level Features of Texts for Student Who Depend on Schools to Become Literate | p. 207 |
| Text in the Science Classroom: Promoting Engagement to Facilitate Conceptual Change | p. 232 |
| Literacy in the Digital World: Comprehending and Learning from Multiple Sources | p. 257 |
| The Work of Constructing Connections between Research and Practice: What We Can Learn from Isabel L. Beck | p. 285 |
| Decoding, Vocabulary, and Comprehension: The Golden Triangle of Reading Skill | p. 291 |
| Another Side of Isabel | p. 304 |
| Index | p. 311 |
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Margaret G. McKeown, PhD, is Clinical Professor of Education and Senior Scientist at the Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh. Her work covers the areas of learning, instruction, and teacher professional development in reading comprehension and vocabulary.
Linda Kucan, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Reading Education in the Department of Instruction and Learning at the University of Pittsburgh. Her interests include teacher education, classroom discourse about text, the design of meaningful and motivating tasks to support comprehension of text, and vocabulary instruction.
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