[This text] is designed for student readers who have had a good deal of practice with short passages and are ready to move on to longer, more complicated readings. The emphasis throughout, is on reading flexibility and learning how to adapt one's reading skills to the material assigned--Back cover.
We’ve been teaching reading wrong—a leading cognitive scientist tells us how we can finally do it right
Drawing upon data published in a variety of scholarly journals, monographs in education, cultural studies, media studies, and libraries and information studies, as well as their own research findings, these...
As narrative researchers Michael F. Connelly and Jean D. Clandinin put it: “Humans are storytelling organisms who, individually and collectively, lead storied lives” (Connelly & Clandinin, 1990, p. 2).
Drawing on scholarly research findings, this book presents a cogent case that librarians can use to work towards prioritization of reading in libraries and in schools.
The series also includes writing and speaking practice activities.
This variety of texts broadens students' awareness of different reading types and gives instructors the flexibility to choose selections that best suit and/or challenge their students.
Reading Matters: An Interactive Approach to Reading
Hailed for its practical, systematic approach, the book showed hundreds of thousands of teachers how to address the needs of the whole classroom as well as individual readers.
Reading Matters Teacher Book
The scope of this fascinating book reaches beyond the classroom and offers insight about what it means to be "literate" in an economically driven, dynamic society.