Comprehension instruction : research-based best practices / edited by Cathy Collins Block, Sheri R. Parris ; foreword by Lesley Mandel Morrow. - 2a ed. - New York : Guilford Press, c2008. - xiii, 447 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. - Solving problems in the teaching of literacy . - Solving problems in the teaching of literacy. .

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Beyond borders : a global perspective on reading comprehension / Research on teaching comprehension : where we've been and where we're going / Dual coding theory : reading comprehension and beyond / Cognitive flexibility and reading comprehension : relevance to the future / Metacognition in comprehension instruction : what we've learned since NRP / Constructivist theory and the situation model : relevance to future assessment of reading comprehension / Looking at reading comprehension through the lens of neuroscience / Using neuroscience to inform reading comprehension instruction / How neuroscience informs our teaching of elementary students / How neuroscience informs our teaching of adolescent students / Transforming classroom instruction to improve the comprehension of fictional texts / Explicit instruction can help primary students learn to comprehend expository text / Explanation and science text : overcoming the comprehension challenges in nonfiction text for elementary students / Learning to think well : application of argument schema theory in literacy instruction / Improving reading comprehension through writing / New insights on motivation in the literacy classroom / Comprehension instruction in action : the elementary classroom / Comprehension instruction in action : the secondary classroom / Comprehension instruction in action : the at-risk student / Comprehension instruction for English learners / Games and comprehension : the importance of specialist language / Research on instruction and assessment in the new literacies of online reading comprehension / Scaffolding digital comprehension / Technologically based teacher resources for designing comprehension lessons / Summing up / What the future of reading research could be / Sheri R. Parris, Linda B. Gambrell, and Andreas Schleicher -- Cathy Collins Block and Gerald G. Duffy -- Mark Sadoski -- Kelly B. Cartwright -- LInda Baker -- Donna Caccamise, Lynn Snyder, and Eileen Kintsch -- Allan Paivio -- Cathy Collins Block and Sheri R. Parris -- Renate N. Caine -- Sheri R. Parris -- Mary Helen Thompson -- Joanna P. Williams -- Laura B. Smolkin, Erin M. McTigue, and Carol A. Donovan -- Alina Reznitskaya ... [et al.] -- Kathy Headley -- Jacquelynn A. Malloy and Linda B. Gambrell -- Nell K. Duke and Nicole M. Martin -- Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey -- Michael F. Hock, Irma F. Brasseur, and David D. Deshler -- Robert Rueda, Alejandra Velasco, and Hyo Jin Lim -- James Paul Gee -- Donald J. Leu ... [et al.] -- Bridget Dalton and David Rose -- Jan Lacina -- Sheri R. Parris and Cathy Collins Block -- Michael Pressley. Epilogue,

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Reading comprehension.
Cognitive learning.
Action research in education.

LB 1050.45 / C737 2008

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