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Handbook of Research on Reading Comprehension

• Edited by Susan E. Israel, Gerald G. Duffy

Price: $89.95add to cart

• Price: $89.95
• Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
• Pages: 712
• Published by: Routledge
• Publication Date: 12th November 2008 (Available for Pre-order)
• ISBN: 978-0-8058-6201-0

About the Book

The Handbook of Research on Reading Comprehension assembles researchers of reading comprehension, literacy, educational psychology, psychology, and neuroscience to document the most recent research on the topic. It summarizes the current body of research on theory, methods, instruction, assessment, including coverage of landmark studies. Designed to deepen understanding of how past research can be applied and has influenced the present and to stimulate new thinking about reading comprehension, the volume is organized around seven themes:

• historical perspectives on reading comprehension
• theoretical perspectives
• changing views of text
• elements of reading comprehension
• assessing and teaching reading comprehension
• cultural impact on reading comprehension
• Where to from here?

This is an essential reference volume for the international community of reading researchers, reading psychologists, graduate students, and professionals working in the area of reading and literacy.

Reviews

"The Handbook – this term connotes a touchstone across disciplines and areas, whose function is to capture a field, past, present, and future. The result of an enormous effort, a handbook provides a benchmark at a particular point in time…. Two ingredients are of foundational importance for a well-built handbook: the structure and the writers. The editors of this Handbook have assembled an extraordinary assemblage of authors, each distinguished in his or her own right, but a group that is exceptional for the breadth and comprehensiveness of perspectives that they bring to bear…. This handbook provides an excellent snapshot of the field."

Robert C. Calfee, From the Foreword

Table of Contents

Part 1: Historical Perspectives on Reading Comprehension 1. How We Got to Where We Are: A Historical Perspective on Reading Comprehension Research, P. David Pearson 2. The Development of Children’s Reading Comprehension, Scott G. Paris and Ellen E. Hamilton 3. In Search of a "Simple View" of Reading Comprehension, James Hoffman Part 2: Theoretical Perspectives 4. Identifying and Describing Constructively Responsive Comprehension Strategies in New and Traditional Forms of Reading, Peter Afflerbach & Byeong-Young Cho 5. Helping Readers Make Sense of Print – A Whole Language Pedagogy, Kenneth S. Goodman and Yetta M. Goodman 6. The Role of Cognitive Flexibility in Reading Comprehension: Past, Present and Future, Kelly B. Cartwright 7. Ways of Meaning Making: Sociocultural Perspectives on Reading Comprehension, James Gavelek and Patrick Bresnahan 8. Transactional Theory and Reading Comprehension, James Damico, Gerald Campano & Jerome Harste 9. Grounding for Reading Comprehension Theory From Neuroscience Literatures, George Hruby Part 3: Changing Views of Text 10. Text Comprehension: A Retrospective, Perspective, and Prospective, Emily Fox and Patricia A. Alexander 11. Disciplinary Comprehension, Cynthia Shanahan 12.The Agency and Artistry of Meaning Making Within and Across Digital Spaces, Robert Tierney 13. Comprehension and Technology, Michael L. Kamil and Helen Kim Chou Part 4: Elements of Reading Comprehension 14. Motivation and Reading Comprehension, Samuel Miller and Beverly Faircloth 15. Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension, James F. Baumann 16. Cognitive Strategy Instruction: Past and Future, Janice A. Dole, Jeffery Nokes, and Dina Drits 17 –Metacognitive Processes and Reading Comprehension, Linda Baker and Lisa Carter Beall 18 - Self-regulated Comprehension Assessment, Dixie D. Massey Part 5: Assessing and Teaching Reading Comprehension 19. Formal and Informal Measures of Reading Comprehension, Lauren Leslie and JoAnn Caldwell 20. Assessing Comprehension of Young Children, Katherine A. Dougherty Stahl 21. Approaches to Teaching Reading Comprehension, Taffy E. Raphael, Cathleen M. Weber, MariAnne George and Abigail R. Nies 22. Comprehension and Discussion of Text, Janice F. Almasi and Keli Garas-York 23. Comprehension Instruction in K-3, Cathy Collins Block and Jan Lacina 24. Developing Higher Order Comprehension in the Middle Grades, Ruth Wharton-McDonald and Shannon Swiger 25. Improving Adolescent Comprehension: Developing Learning Strategies in Content Areas, Mark W. Conley 26. Comprehension Difficulties Among Struggling Readers, Richard L. Allington and Ann McGill-Franzen Part 6: Cultural Impact of Reading Comprehension 27. Culturally Responsive Instruction and the Impact on Reading, Comprehension, Colleen Fairbanks and Jewel Cooper, Lynn Masteson and Sandra Webb 28. English Language Learners and Reading Comprehension, Kathryn Prater 29. Family Literacy and Reading Comprehension, Patricia A. Edwards and Jennifer D. Turner 30. Reading Comprehension and Diversity in Historical Perspective: Literacy Power, and Native Hawaiians, Kathryn Au and Julie Kaomea Part 7:Where to Live from Here? 31. Teacher Education and Reading Comprehension, Misty Sailors 32. Public Policy and the Future of Reading Comprehension Research, Cathy Roller 33. What Does It All Mean? Gerald G. Duffy and Susan E. Israel Author Index Subject Index

About the Author(s)

Gerald G. Duffy

University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA

Susan E. Israel

Author and Literacy Consultant

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