Engaging Young Readers: Promoting Achievement and Motivation - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1572305541 ISBN 13: 9781572305540

Publisher: The Guilford Press, 2000

Synopsis

This volume demonstrates how promoting children's engagement with reading can greatly enhance reading achievement. From leading literacy researchers and educators, the book illuminates what a child needs to become an engaged reader and presents a set of instructional principles designed to facilitate this goal. Helping teachers offer a coordinated emphasis on competence and motivation in reading instruction, chapters blend research evidence with practical recommendations. Topics covered include ways to provide children with a good foundation at the word level, help if they are in trouble, ample time and materials for reading, opportunities to share in a community of learners, instruction that is coherent, motivating, and responsive to each child's strengths and weaknesses, school-wide coordination of instruction, and continuities between home and school.

About this title

About the Author

Linda Baker, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD.

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Contents
1. Why Teachers Should Promote Reading Engagement, Linda Baker, Mariam Jean Dreher, and John T. Guthrie
2. Building the Word-Level Foundation for Engaged Reading, Linda Baker
3. Helping Children Who Experience Reading Difficulties: Prevention and Intervention, Steve Graham and Karen R. Harris
4. Fostering Reading for Learning, Mariam Jean Dreher
5. Creating a Print- and Technology-Rich Classroom Library to Entice Children to Read, Marilyn J. Chambliss and Ann Margaret McKillop
6. Promoting Collaboration, Social Interactions, and Engagement with Text, Linda B. Gambrell, Susan Anders Mazzoni, and Janice F. Almasi
7. Facilitating Children's Reading Motivation, Allan Wigfield
8. Determining the Suitability of Assessments: Using the CURRV Framework, Diane Henry Leipzig and Peter Afflerbach
9. Using Instructional Time Effectively, James P. Byrnes
10. Building toward Coherent Instruction, John T. Guthrie, Kathleen E. Cox, Kaeli Knowles, Michelle Buehl, Susan Anders Mazzoni, and Liz Fasulo
11. Facilitating Reading Instruction through School-Wide Coordination, Linda Valli
12. Fostering Home and Community Connections to Support Children's Reading, Susan Sonnenschein and Diane Schmidt
13. Achieving Expertise in Teaching Reading, Patricia A. Alexander and Helenrose Fives
14. Why Teacher Engagement Is Important to Student Achievement, John T. Guthrie, Mariam Jean Dreher, and Linda Baker

About this edition

• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1572305541
• ISBN 13: 9781572305540
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 328
• Editor: Baker Linda, Guthrie John T., Jean Dreher Mariam