Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

There is more to effective reading instruction than research / Alan E. Farstrup -- What reading research says : the promises and limitations of applying research to reading education / Timothy Shanahan -- Holistic, integrated approaches to reading and language arts instruction : the constructivist framework of an instructional theory / Brian Cambourne -- Home and school together : helping beginning readers succeed / Jeanne R. Paratore -- The importance of effective early intervention / Dorothy S. Strickland -- What we know about how to teach phonics / Patricia M. Cunningham and James W. Cunningham -- The role of phonemic awareness in learning to read / Linnea C. Ehri and Simone Nunes -- The place of word consciousness in a research-based vocabulary program / Michael F. Graves and Susan M. Watts-Taffe -- Reading fluency : its development and assessment / S. Jay Samuels -- Making a difference in adolescents' school lives : visible and invisible aspects of content area reading / Richard T. Vacca -- Effective practices for developing reading comprehension / Nell K. Duke and P. David Pearson -- Reading comprehension strategies and teacher preparation / Joanna P. Williams -- Research on reading/learning disability interventions / Richard L. Allington -- Metacognition and self-regulated comprehension / Michael Pressley -- The new literacies : research on reading instruction with the Internet / Donald J. Leu, Jr. -- Standards, assessments, and text difficulty / Elfrieda H. Hiebert -- Preparing students for high-stakes test taking in reading / John T. Guthrie -- Multicultural factors and the effective instruction of students of diverse backgrounds / Kathryn H. Au.

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