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Theoretical Models and Processes of Reading

 

Preface

About the Editors

Contributors

Section One: Perspectives on Literacy Research and Its Application: Viewing the Past, Envisioning the Future

Introduction

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Looking Back, Looking Forward: A Conversation About Teaching Reading in the 21st Century
Richard L. Allington, Anne McGill-Franzen

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A Historical Perspective on Reading Research and Practice
Patricia A. Alexander, Emily Fox   FREE!

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Literacy Policy and Policy Research That Makes a Difference
Sheila W. Valencia, Karen K. Wixson

Section Two: Processes of Reading and Literacy

Introduction

Part 1: Language and Cognition in Sociocultural Contexts

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Reading as Situated Language: A Sociocognitive Perspective
James Paul Gee

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The Place of Dialogue in Children's Construction of Meaning
M.A.K. Halliday

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Writing and the Sea of Voices: Oral Language In, Around, and About Writing
Anne Haas Dyson   FREE!

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Exploring Vygotskian Perspectives in Education: The Cognitive Value of Peer Interaction
Ellice A. Forman, Courtney B. Cazden

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The Children of Trackton's Children: Spoken and Written Language in Social Change
Shirley Brice Heath

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Literacy and Identity Development of Latina/o Students
Robert T. Jiménez

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Young Bilingual Children and Early Literacy Development
Patton O. Tabors, Catherine Snow

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“This Wooden Shack Place”: The Logic of an Unconventional Reading
Glynda Hull, Mike Rose

Part 2: Foundations for Literacy Development

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Preschoolers' Developing Ownership of the Literate Register
Beverly E. Cox, Zhihui Fang, Beverly White Otto

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Learning to Read Words: Linguistic Units and Instructional Strategies
Connie Juel, Cecilia Minden-Cupp

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Phases of Word Learning: Implications for Instruction With Delayed and Disabled Readers
Linnea C. Ehri, Sandra McCormick

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The Texts of Beginning Reading Instruction
Elfrieda H. Hiebert, Leigh Ann Martin

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Fluency: A Review of Developmental and Remedial Practices
Melanie R. Kuhn, Steven A. Stahl

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Matthew Effects in Reading: Some Consequences of Individual Differences in the Acquisition of Literacy
Keith E. Stanovich

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A Road Map for Understanding Reading Disability and Other Reading Problems: Origins, Prevention, and Intervention
Louise Spear-Swerling   FREE!

Part 3: Comprehension Development From Words to Worlds

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Vocabulary Processes
William E. Nagy, Judith A. Scott

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Role of the Reader's Schema in Comprehension, Learning, and Memory
Richard C. Anderson

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Schema Activation and Schema Acquistion: Comments on Richard C. Anderson's Remarks
John D. Bransford

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To Err Is Human: Learning About Language Processes by Analyzing Miscues
Yetta M. Goodman, Kenneth S. Goodman

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Cognitive Flexibility Theory: Advanced Knowledge Acquisition in Ill-Structured Domains
Rand J. Spiro, Richard L. Coulson, Paul J. Feltovich, Daniel K. Anderson

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Principled Pluralism for Adaptive Flexibility in Teaching and Learning
Rand J. Spiro

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Building Representations of Informational Text: Evidence From Children's Think-Aloud Protocols
Nathalie Coté, Susan R. Goldman

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Traversing the Topical Landscape: Exploring Students' Self-Directed Reading-Writing-Research Processes
Joyce E. Many, Ronald Fyfe, Geoffrey Lewis, Evelyn Mitchell

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A Research Agenda for Improving Reading Comprehension
RAND Reading Study Group

Part 4: Extending Comprehension Through Metacognition

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Self-Regulated Comprehension During Normal Reading
Douglas J. Hacker

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Instructing Comprehension-Fostering Activities in Interactive Learning Situations
Ann L. Brown, Annemarie Sullivan Palincsar, Bonnie B. Armbruster

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Effects of Structure Strategy Training and Signaling on Recall of Text
Bonnie J.F. Meyer, Leonard W. Poon

Part 5: Reader Response, Motivation, and Engagement

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Response to Literature as a Cultural Activity
Lee Galda, Richard Beach   FREE!

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Adolescents' Perceptions and Negotiations of Literacy Practices in After-School Read and Talk Clubs
Donna E. Alvermann, Josephine Peyton Young, Colin Green, Joseph M. Wisenbaker

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The Effect of Reader Stance on Students' Personal Understanding of Literature
Joyce E. Many

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Motivational and Cognitive Predictors of Text Comprehension and Reading Amount
John T. Guthrie, Allan Wigfield, Jamie L. Metsala, Kathleen E. Cox

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The Role of Responsive Teaching in Focusing Reader Intention and Developing Reader Motivation
Robert B. Ruddell, Norman J. Unrau

Part 6: Instructional Effects on Literacy Development

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Researching the Influential Literacy Teacher: Characteristics, Beliefs, Strategies, and New Research Directions
Robert B. Ruddell

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A Quasi-Experimental Validation of Transactional Strategies Instruction With Low-Achieving Second-Grade Readers
Rachel Brown, Michael Pressley, Peggy Van Meter, Ted Schuder

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Beating the Odds: Teaching Middle and High School Students to Read and Write Well
Judith A. Langer

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Can Minimally Trained College Student Volunteers Help Young At-Risk Children to Read Better?
Jill Fitzgerald

Section Three: Models of Reading and Writing Processes

Introduction

Part 1: Cognitive-Processing Models

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Toward a Theory of Automatic Information Processing in Reading, Revisited
S. Jay Samuels

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Toward an Interactive Model of Reading
David E. Rumelhart

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One Second of Reading: Postscripts
Philip B. Gough

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A Theory of Reading: From Eye Fixations to Comprehension
Marcel Adam Just, Patricia A. Carpenter

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Modeling the Connections Between Word Recognition and Reading
Marilyn Jager Adams

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The Landscape Model of Reading: Inferences and the Online Construction of a Memory Representation
Paul van den Broek, Michael Young, Yuhtsuen Tzeng, Tracy Linderholm

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The Construction-Integration Model of Text Comprehension and Its Implications for Instruction
Walter Kintsch

Part 2: A Dual Coding Model

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A Dual Coding Theoretical Model of Reading
Mark Sadoski, Allan Paivio

Part 3: A Transactional Model

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The Transactional Theory of Reading and Writing
Louise M. Rosenblatt

Part 4: An Individual-Environmental Model of Writing

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A New Framework for Understanding Cognition and Affect in Writing
John R. Hayes

Part 5: An Attitude-Influence Model

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Model of Attitude Influence Upon Reading and Learning to Read
Grover C. Mathewson

Part 6: A Sociocognitive Model of Reading

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Reading as a Meaning-Construction Process: The Reader, the Text, and the Teacher
Robert B. Ruddell, Norman J. Unrau

Section Four: Literacy's New Horizons: An Emerging Agenda for Tomorrow's Research and Practice

Introduction

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Literacy Research in the Next Millennium: From Paradigms to Pragmatism and Practicality
Deborah R. Dillon, David G. O'Brien, Elizabeth E. Heilman

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Strategies for Developing a Research Program on Reading Comprehension
RAND Reading Study Group

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Toward a Theory of New Literacies Emerging From the Internet and Other Information and Communication Technologies
Donald J. Leu, Jr., Charles K. Kinzer, Julie Coiro, Dana W. Cammack   FREE!

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The Role of Assessment in a Learning Culture
Lorrie A. Shepard

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Literacy for All Children in the Increasingly Diverse Schools of the United States
Claude Goldenberg

Author Index

Subject Index

 

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