Engaging Young Readers: Promoting Achievement and Motivation (Solving Problems in the Teaching of Literacy)

Baker PhD, Linda

ISBN 10: 1572305355 / ISBN 13: 9781572305359

Published by The Guilford Press, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Engaging Young Readers: Promoting Achievement and Motivation (Solving Problems in the Teaching of Literacy)
• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1572305355
• ISBN 13: 9781572305359
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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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 the Author

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

Mariam Jean Dreher, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership at the University of Maryland, College Park. Previously she was an elementary classroom teacher and Title I specialist. Her research interests include ways to integrate informational text into literacy instruction to enhance students’ comprehension, vocabulary, and motivation. Dr. Dreher has published numerous articles and books and has served on many editorial advisory boards, receiving the Outstanding Reviewer Award from the Journal of Literacy Research. She is a consultant to National Geographic Children’s Books on a series of information books for young children. Dr. Dreher is a recipient of a Fulbright Senior Specialist Grant and was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Oulu, Finland.