"At a time when education is burdened by increasing economic pressure to do more with less, it is imperative that educators and decision makers at all levels have access to current, broad-ranging, and in-depth information and evidence to inform their choices. This volume, compil…
Analyse van de manier waarop technologie onze manier van lezen beïnvloed.
Writing is one of humankind's greatest inventions, and modern societies could not function if their citizens could not read and write. But how do skilled readers pick up meaning from markings on a page so quickly, and how do children learn to do so? This handbook synthesises res…
Publisher description: Offers practical tools for screening and assessing K-2 students at risk for reading problems. Provides critical reviews of 42 specific measures, selected for optimal technical quality and presented in a clear, standardized format. Encapsulates the scientif…
"Perspectives on Rescuing Urban Literacy Education: Spies, Saboteurs, and Saints is an exploration of the variables that contribute to the improvement of literacy instruction in large urban school districts. The book grows out of a five-year initiative known as The Dallas Readin…
Reader's Liberation addresses questions of what we should be reading to obtain information, examining how past readers encountered the same problems that today's readers face, and how they dealt with them.
What happens to books as they live in our long-term memory? Why do we find some books entertaining and others not? And how does literary influence work on writers in different ways? Grounded in the findings of empirical psychology, this book amends classic reader-response theory…
