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Direct linkNatasha Feinberg; Susan Zoll; Laura Saylor, Contributor – Teachers College Press, 2025
From the authors of "Powerful Literacy in the Montessori Classroom", this new book focuses on the practical implementation of Montessori teaching and assessment methods in pre-K-6th grade classrooms. The authors describe how reading research and Montessori's scientific pedagogy and language curriculum play out in actual classrooms…
Descriptors: Montessori Method, Preschool Curriculum, Literacy Education, Elementary School Curriculum
Kitao, S. Kathleen – 1989
A discussion of schema theory as it relates to the learning of English as a Second Language reviews related research and its implications for classroom instruction. The first section looks at schema theory in general and content schemata in particular, focusing on how they affect reading comprehension. Studies of non-native speakers, schema…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, English (Second Language), Learning Theories, Prior Learning
Download full textLanger, Judith A., Ed.; Smith-Burke, M. Trika, Ed. – 1982
The 10 articles in this book examine how comprehension is affected by what the reader brings to the text, the manner in which the text is structured by the author, and the contextual variables that shape the meaning derived by the reader. Specific topics covered in the articles are (1) background knowledge and comprehension, (2) learning how to…
Descriptors: Child Language, Dialects, Discourse Analysis, Language Processing
Waller, T. Gary, Ed.; MacKinnon, G. E., Ed. – 1979
The first of a series providing reviews, syntheses (empirical and rhetorical), and reports of reading research, the chapters in this volume treat the question, "What does a child have to know (or be able to do) in order to learn to read?" The book begins with an in-depth logical analysis in historical perspective of the concept of reading…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Early Reading, Elementary Education, Learning Processes
Orasanu, Judith, Ed. – 1986
In response to recommendations by a National Institute of Education (NIE) planning group to the effect that NIE should support efforts to understand the cognitive processes involved in acquiring basic reading skills and in comprehending linguistic messages, this book summarizes what has been learned about reading comprehension in the decade since…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education
Roller, Cathy M., Ed. – 2002
This collection of 9 papers from the International Reading Association's Reading Research 2001 Conference (RR2001) addresses comprehensive reading instruction across the grade levels. The introduction, "How Will We Develop the Concept of Comprehensive Reading Instruction Across Grade Levels?," notes that five quandaries arose in the discussion of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Early Reading, Elementary Education, Emergent Literacy
