Richard Allington

What Really Matters for Middle School Readers

From Research to Practice

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Produktbeschreibung

The latest from well-known author and literacy expert Dr. Richard Allington is intended as the first step in preparing future teachers to provide early adolescents with high-quality literacy instruction. What Really Matters for Middle School Readers: From Research to Practice looks at the areas that struggling adolescents find most difficult?meaning, vocabulary, (especially academic words), and inferential comprehension?and focuses on ways to foster accelerated growth. Dr. Allington stresses that through expanding the volume of high-success reading that students experience each day, as well as through the wide variety of additional classroom strategies and methodologies included in the text, middle school students can achieve a working literacy proficiency.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pearson Education
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 185mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780205393190
• ISBN-10: 0205393195
• Artikelnr.: 40185860

Autorenporträt

Dick Allington is professor of literacy studies at the University of Tennessee. He is past-president of the International Reading Association and the National Reading Conference (now the Literacy Research Association). His research has been funded by the U.S. Department of Education and the National Institutes of Health. He has published over 150 scholarly papers and more than 10 books. His writing has been focused on translating research findings into educational practice.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Reading development in grades 5 through 9: Problems and promise
Chapter 2: It's not decoding that is the problem (but that is what most
remediation targets)
Chapter 3: "It's the words, man": Limited meaning vocabulary and how to
improve it
Chapter 4: Read more, read better: Addressing a major source of reading
difficulties
Chapter 5: Reading with comprehension: Understanding understanding
Chapter 6: Literate conversation: A powerful but seldom used method for
fostering understanding of complex texts
Chapter 7: Getting the gist of it all: Summarization after reading
Chapter 8: Pulling it all together: Effective instruction all day long
Appendix: Study Guide for What Really Matters for Middle School Readers