Comprehension Instruction: Research-Based Best Practices, Second Edition
Guilford Press | Cathy Collins Block | 2008/04/02
ISBN 13: 9781593857004
Now in a substantially revised and updated second edition, this comprehensive professional resource and text is based on cutting-edge research. In each chapter, leading scholars provide an overview of a particular aspect of comprehension, offer best-practice instructional guidelines and policy recommendations, present key research questions still to be answered, and conclude with stimulating questions for individual study or discussion. All 25 chapters are new, with coverage of such timely topics as differentiated instruction, technology and reding comprehension, teaching English language learners and the implications of current neuroscientific findings.
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“This volume, a most worthy follow-up to the first edition, gets to the heart of how we comprehend text and how to best foster the development of comprehension in students. The array of topics and the quality of the chapters contribute breadth and depth…. This book is well situated at the convergence of theory and practice and, as such, I recommend it for graduate courses for teachers and researchers.”—Petter Afflerbach, PhD, University of Maryland
“This is a book that needs to be read by all educators! This second edition examines groundbreaking research that is becoming more important in education today…. An invaluable resource for teachers of all grade levels.”—John Scovill, Jr., third-grade teacher, St. George, UT
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