Handbook of Research on Reading Comprehension - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805862013 ISBN 13: 9780805862010

Publisher: Routledge, 2009

Synopsis

The Handbook of Research on Reading Comprehension assembles researchers of reading comprehension, literacy, educational psychology, psychology, and neuroscience to document the most recent research on the topic. It summarizes the current body of research on theory, methods, instruction, and assessment, including coverage of landmark studies. Designed to deepen understanding of how past research can be applied and has influenced the present and to stimulate new thinking about reading comprehension, the volume is organized around seven themes:

• historical perspectives on reading comprehension
• theoretical perspectives
• changing views of text
• elements of reading comprehension
• assessing and teaching reading comprehension
• cultural impact on reading comprehension
• where to from here?

This is an essential reference volume for the international community of reading researchers, reading psychologists, graduate students, and professionals working in the area of reading and literacy.

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Handbook of Research on Reading Comprehension Assembles researchers of reading comprehension, literacy, educational psychology, psychology, and neuroscience to document the research on the topic. This book covers themes including historical perspectives on reading comprehension, theoretical perspectives, changing views of text, elements of reading comprehension, and assessing and teaching. Full description

Review:

"The Handbook – this term connotes a touchstone across disciplines and areas, whose function is to capture a field, past, present, and future. The result of an enormous effort, a handbook provides a benchmark at a particular point in time.... Two ingredients are of foundational importance for a well-built handbook: the structure and the writers. The editors of this Handbook have assembled an extraordinary assemblage of authors, each distinguished in his or her own right, but a group that is exceptional for the breadth and comprehensiveness of perspectives that they bring to bear.... This handbook provides an excellent snapshot of the field."

Robert C. Calfee, From the Foreword

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0805862013
• ISBN 13: 9780805862010
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 712
• Editor: Israel Susan E.