Comprehension instruction : research-based best practices / Edited by Cathy Collins Block and Sheri R. Parris

Content includes:

Beyond borders : a global perspective on reading comprehension / Sheri R. Parris, Linda B. Gambrell, and Andreas Schleicher
Research on teaching comprehension : where we've been and where we're going / Cathy Collins Block and Gerald G. Duffy
Dual coding theory : reading comprehension and beyond / Mark Sadoski
Cognitive flexibility and reading comprehension : relevance to the future / Kelly B. Cartwright
Metacognition in comprehension instruction : what we've learned since NRP / LInda Baker
Constructivist theory and the situation model : relevance to future assessment of reading comprehension / Donna Caccamise, Lynn Snyder, and Eileen Kintsch

Looking at reading comprehension through the lens of neuroscience / Allan Paivio
Using neuroscience to inform reading comprehension instruction / Cathy Collins Block and Sheri R. Parris
How neuroscience informs our teaching of elementary students / Renate N. Caine
How neuroscience informs our teaching of adolescent students / Sheri R. Parris

Transforming classroom instruction to improve the comprehension of fictional texts / Mary Helen Thompson
Explicit instruction can help primary students learn to comprehend expository text / Joanna P. Williams
Explanation and science text : overcoming the comprehension challenges in nonfiction text for elementary students / Laura B. Smolkin, Erin M. McTigue, and Carol A. Donovan
Learning to think well : application of argument schema theory in literacy instruction / Alina Reznitskaya ... [et al.]
Improving reading comprehension through writing / Kathy Headley
New insights on motivation in the literacy classroom / Jacquelynn A. Malloy and Linda B. Gambrell

Comprehension instruction in action : the elementary classroom / Nell K. Duke and Nicole M. Martin
Comprehension instruction in action : the secondary classroom / Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey
Comprehension instruction in action : the at-risk student / Michael F. Hock, Irma F. Brasseur, and David D. Deshler
Comprehension instruction for English learners / Robert Rueda, Alejandra Velasco, and Hyo Jin Lim

Games and comprehension : the importance of specialist language / James Paul Gee
Research on instruction and assessment in the new literacies of online reading comprehension / Donald J. Leu ... [et al.]
Scaffolding digital comprehension / Bridget Dalton and David Rose
Technologically based teacher resources for designing comprehension lessons / Jan Lacina

Summing up / Sheri R. Parris and Cathy Collins Block
Epilogue What the future of reading research could be / Michael Pressley.


Includes bibliographical references and index