Kelly B Cartwright

Gebundenes Buch

Executive Skills and Reading Comprehension

A Guide for Educators

Beschreibung

This pioneering book is now in a revised and expanded second edition featuring the latest neuroscientific knowledge and instructional strategies. It provides a teacher-friendly explanation of executive skills--such as planning, organization, cognitive flexibility, and impulse control--and their role in reading comprehension. Detailed examples illustrate how each skill is deployed by strong comprehenders and ways to tailor instruction for students who are struggling. The companion website features reproducible planning and assessment forms from the book as well as supplemental card sorts to teach and assess cognitive flexibility, ready to download and print in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size.

Autor

Kelly B. Cartwright, PhD, is Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Teacher Preparation at Christopher Newport University, where she directs the READ (Reading, Executive Function, and Development) Lab, serves as a Research Scholar for the Center for Education Research and Policy, and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in cognitive, language, and literacy processes. Her research focuses on the development of skilled reading comprehension and the neurocognitive and affective factors that underlie comprehension processes and difficulties from preschool through adulthood. Dr. Cartwright regularly works with teachers in schools throughout the United States to better understand and improve comprehension instruction for striving readers, and these experiences inform her research.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Guilford Publications
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 379
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 257mm x 180mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 898g
• ISBN-13: 9781462551507
• ISBN-10: 1462551505
• Artikelnr.: 65345661