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Author: Lois A. Bader & Daniel L. Pearce

The Bader Reading and Language Inventory presents a much-needed, highly authoritative model for ensuring K-12 readers' growth, assessing the effectiveness of specific reading approaches, and diagnosing a wide range of li ...

Author: James V. Hoffman, Peter Afflerbach, Ann M. Duffy-Hester & others

This book appears at a time when the crisis rhetoric about schools, teaching, and learning to read is extremely high. There is a rising call within the profession for a balanced perspective on reading. "Balancing Princip ...

Author: James V. Hoffman, Peter Afflerbach, Ann M. Duffy-Hester & others

This book appears at a time when the crisis rhetoric about schools, teaching, and learning to read is extremely high. There is a rising call within the profession for a balanced perspective on reading. "Balancing Princip ...

Author: Marie M. Clay

Author: Paula Kalaja & Barcelos A.M. Ferreira

This edited collection of articles illustrates recent work on beliefs about second language acquisition, drawing on the thinking of educational philosophers and discursive psychologists including Dewey, Bakhtin, Vygotsky ...

Author: Randi Stone

Enrich your reading instruction with 40 classroom-tested best practices from award-winning teachers! This teaching resource is packed with lessons that work and ideas that can expand the teaching repertoire of new and ve ...

Author: Dr Randi Stone

Following the successful format of the companion volumes for teaching writing, mathematics, science, and social studies, Best Practices for Teaching Reading presents firsthand accounts of outstanding instructional st ...

Author: John Potts

This book sets out a clear and logical framework for the teaching of reading throughout different age groups, whereby systematic progression can be developed within a structured framework. A detailed set of recommendatio ...

Author: Karen Szymusiak, Franki Sibberson & Lisa Koch

In the first edition of "Beyond Leveled Books," Franki Sibberson and Karen Szymusiak, offered a much-needed perspective on moving transitional readers from the basic supports of leveling to independent book selection. ...

Author: Margaret Moustafa

Looking beyond the print system involved in learning to read, researchers have made discoveries about the role of linguistic and cognitive systems. This text outlines this research which seeks to challenge traditional as ...

Author: Jim Cummins & Nancy H. Hornberger

This volume addresses bilingual education, the use of two (or more) languages of instruction in education. Although bilingual education is available in some form in most countries, it is frequently the subject of politic ...

Author: Deborah J Chitester

The population of children who speak a language other than English at home has increased dramatically in the last two decades. This book is written as a response to the cry from many practitioners struggling with an accu ...

Author: Zvia Breznitz

Brain Research in Language addresses important neurological issues involved in reading. The reading process is a highly composite cognitive task, which relies on brain systems that were originally devoted to other functi ...

Author: Zvia Breznitz

Brain Research in Language addresses important neurological issues involved in reading. The reading process is a highly composite cognitive task, which relies on brain systems that were originally devoted to other functi ...

Author: William Coleman

Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin. Stories are powerful things to all cultures and throughout all of history. Stories can heal, inspire, delight, enrage, but ultimately change our views of ourselves, other peo ...

Author: J. Richard Gentry

If only we could understand that seemingly inexplicable moment when children suddenly "get" reading. Then our instruction could be directed toward creating those specific circumstances which help every student recogni ...

Author: Diane E. DeFord

This book attempts to represent the bridges the authors have formed between two adjacent ideas: one-on-one instruction and classroom instruction.

Author: Isabel L. Beck, Margaret G. McKeown & Linda Kucan

Hundreds of thousands of teachers have used this highly practical guide to help K-12 students enlarge their vocabulary and get involved in noticing, understanding, and using new words. Grounded in research, the book expl ...

Author: Isabel L. Beck, Margaret G. McKeown & Linda Kucan

Hundreds of thousands of teachers have used this highly practical guide to help K-12 students enlarge their vocabulary and get involved in noticing, understanding, and using new words. Grounded in research, the book expl ...

Author: Pamela A. Nevills

"Build the Brain for Reading, Grades 4-12" has been developed in response to the large number of requests that the author receives from educators for a book that discusses how reading skills develop, both in young childr ...