Full Description
The latest research on literacy education—made more accessible!
To help students and beginning teachers understand contemporary issues in literacy education, this book provides a collection of edited readings and accompanying strategies. The articles have been selected to provide a balance between readings that focus on key theoretical concerns and others that suggest classroom applications of those guiding principles.
Key Features
The text is organized into sections representing today's most important literacy concerns.
The readings are contextualized with section introductions by the editors that provide an overview of each topic.
Section introductions also include hands-on instructional strategies to help students negotiate the articles, promote overall comprehension, and apply the material in practice.
Articles have been edited to be accessible and relevant to students, and they provide a variety of viewpoints on the issues raised.
This text will help instructors integrate the latest research into their courses in a meaningful way and show students how to apply research and theory to practice.
Includes Articles From the Following Journals:
American Educational Research Journal
American Educator
California Reader
Educational Leadership
Educational Policy
Education and Urban Society
English Education
English Journal
International Journal of Applied Linguistics
Intervention in School and Clinic
Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy
Journal of Early Childhood Literacy
Journal of Educational Psychology
Language Arts
Reading Psychology
Reading Research Quarterly
The Reading Teacher
RELC Journal
Remedial and Special Education
Review of Research in Education
Written Communication
Contents
Article Abstracts
Preface
Acknowledgements
Advisory Board
Section I: Planning and Organizing Literacy Instruction
1. The Reading Wars - P. David Pearson
2. Johnny Won't Read And Susie Won't Either: Reading Instruction And Student Resistance - Rebecca Powell, Ellyn McIntyre, and Elizabeth Rightmyer
3. Releasing Responsibility - Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey
Section II: The Assessment / Instruction Relationship
4. How Classroom Assessments Improve Learning - Thomas R. Guskey
5. Principles For Literacy Assessment - Peter Johnston and Paula Costello
6. Behind Test Scores: What Struggling Readers Really Need - Sheila W. Valencia and Marsha Riddle Buly
Section III: Word Recognition
7. What Can I Say Besides "Sound It Out?" Coaching Word Recognition In Beginning Reading - Kathleen F. Clark
8. Helping Children Link Sound To Print - Laurice M. Joseph
9. Phonemes In Use: Multiple Activities For A Critical Process - Patrick C. Manyak
10. Teaching Spelling In The Primary Grades: A National Survey Of Instructional Practices And Adaptations - Steve Graham, Paul Morphy, Karen R. Harris, Barbara Fink-Chorzempa, Bruce Saddler, Susan Moran, Linda Mason
Section IV: Fluency
11. Fluency: Bridge Between Decoding And Reading Comprehension - J. J. Pikulski and D. J. Chard
12. Developing Reading Fluency with Repeated Reading - W. J. Therrien and R. M. Kubina
13. Fluency: A Review Of Developmental And Remedial Practices - M. Kuhn and S. Stahl
Section V: Vocabulary Development and Academic Language
14. Nine Things Every Teacher Should Know About Words And Vocabulary Instruction - Karen Bromley
15. Ten Important Words Plus: A Strategy For Building Word Knowledge - Ruth Helen Yopp and Hallie Kay Yopp
16. Vocabulary Assessment: What We Know And What We Need To Learn - D. P. Pearson, E. H. Hiebert, and M. L. Kamil
17. Teacher Practices And Perspectives For Developing Academic Language - J. Zwiers
Section VI: Comprehension
18. Scaffolding Students' Comprehension Of Text - Kathleen F. Clark and Michael F. Graves
19. What Every Teacher Needs To Know About Comprehension - Laura S. Pardo
20. Teaching Expository Text Structures Through Information Trade Book Retellings - Barbara Moss
21. New Dimensions Of Content Area Literacy: Not Just For Secondary Teachers Anymore - Karen D. Wood
Section VII: Adolescent Literacy
22. Rethinking Middle School Reading Instruction: A Basic Literacy Activity - W. E. Blanton, K. D. Wood, and D. B. Taylor
23. Evaluating the Interventions For Struggling Adolescent Readers - D. Fisher and G. Ivey
Section VIII: Writing
24. Supporting Independent Writing: A Continuum of Writing Instruction - Marva Cappello
25. Beyond Strategies: Teacher Practice, Writing Process, And The Influence Of Inquiry - Anne Whitney, Sheridan Blau, Alison Bright, Rosemary Cabe, Tim Dewar, Jason Levin, Roseanne Macias, and Paul Rogers
26. Writing, 1999 to 2004 Writing Into the 21st Century: An Overview of Research on Writing, 1999 to 2004 - M. M. Juzwik, et al
Section IX: Working with English Language Learners
27. Language Education: Past, Present And Future - S. Krashen
28. Teaching English Learners: What The Research Does--And Does Not—Say - C. N. Goldenberg
29. A Framework For Robust Literacy Instruction For English Learners - Patrick C. Manyak
30. English Learners: Key Issues - R.R Verdugo and B. Flores
Section X: Differentiating Instruction / Universal Access
31. Reconcilable Differences? Standards-Based Teaching and Differentiation - Carol Ann Tomlinson
32. Differentiating Standards-Based Education for Students with Diverse Needs - J. J. Hoover and J.R. Patton
Section XI: Trends: New Literacies / Multiple Literacies
33. Discussing New Literacies - Michele Knobel and Colin Lankshear
34. Finding Space And Time For The Visual In K-12 Literacy Instruction - D.D. Hassett and M.B. Schieble
35. Literacy Inquiry And Pedagogy Through A Photographic Lens - Marva Cappello and Sandra Hollingsworth
36. Multimodality and Literacy In School Classrooms - C. Jewitt
References and Endnotes
Internet Resources
Index
About the Editors
