商品簡介
Twenty American academics and researchers contribute 12 chapters discussing the opportunities provided for students to read in the K-12 school environment, in particular the importance of students engaging in the right kinds of reading with the right kinds of texts. Coverage includes the frameworks and perspectives for productive reading experiences in classrooms; how opportunities can be designed and implemented in classrooms to support more and better reading; addressing the needs of struggling readers, students with native languages other than English, and students with learning disabilities; effective reading assessment factors and uses; and how the classroom reading experience can create motivated, lifelong readers whose enjoyment of reading for pleasure results in both personal and societal benefits. For preservice and inservice teachers, reading specialists, literacy coaches, and administrators. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Elfrieda H. Hiebert, PhD, is Adjunct Professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also a principal investigator at the National Center for Research on the Educational Achievement and Teaching of English Language Learners. Dr. Hiebert has worked in the field of early reading acquisition for 40 years as a classroom teacher, teacher educator, and researcher. Her research addresses methods for supporting students who depend on schools to become literate and for fostering students’ reading fluency, vocabulary, and knowledge through appropriate texts. Dr. Hiebert’s model of accessible texts for beginning and struggling readers--TExT (Text Elements by Task--has been used to develop several reading programs that are widely used in schools. Dr. Hiebert is a recipient of the William S. Gray Citation of Merit, awarded by the International Reading Association, and a member of the Reading Hall of Fame. Her publications have contributed to making research accessible to educators. She is the author or editor of 10 books as well as numerous journal articles.
