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Improving Reading Comprehension of Middle and High School Students

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Editors:
  1. Kristi L. Santi

    1. College of Education, University of Houston, Houston, USA

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  2. Deborah K. Reed

    1. Florida Center for Reading Research, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA

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  • Highlights theory and empirical research relevant to English reading comprehension in middle and high schools
  • Presents chapters on reading comprehension in various content areas and populations such as English Language Learners and special needs students
  • Contributions offer in-depth insights by leading researchers in the field

Part of the book series: Literacy Studies (LITS, volume 10)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. What Do Models of Reading Comprehension and Its Development Have to Contribute to a Science of Comprehension Instruction and Assessment for Adolescents?

    • Marcia A. Barnes
    Pages 1-18

  3. Reading History: Moving from Memorizing Facts to Critical Thinking

    • Dixie D. Massey
    Pages 19-47

  4. Reading Mathematics: More than Words and Clauses; More than Numbers and Symbols on a Page

    • Mary A. Avalos, Alain Bengochea, Walter G. Secada
    Pages 49-74

  5. Understanding Causality in Science Discourse for Middle and High School Students. Summary Task as a Strategy for Improving Comprehension

    • Jose A. León, Inmaculada Escudero
    Pages 75-98

  6. Reading Comprehension Instruction for Middle and High School Students in English Language Arts: Research and Evidence-Based Practices

    • Michael F. Hock, Irma F. Brasseur-Hock, Donald D. Deshler
    Pages 99-118

  7. Improving Comprehension Assessment for Middle and High School Students: Challenges and Opportunities

    • John Sabatini, Yaacov Petscher, Tenaha O’Reilly, Adrea Truckenmiller
    Pages 119-151

  8. Reading Comprehension Skill Development and Instruction for Adolescent English Language Learners: A Focus on Academic Vocabulary Instruction

    • Emily Phillips Galloway, Nonie Lesaux
    Pages 153-178

  9. Special Education in Middle and High School

    • Deborah K. Reed, Kristi L. Santi
    Pages 179-197
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About this book

This volume focuses on our understanding of the reading comprehension of adolescents in a high stakes academic environment. Leading researchers share their most current research on each issue, covering theory and empirical research from a range of specializations, including various content areas, English language learners, students with disabilities, and reading assessment. Topics discussed include: cognitive models of reading comprehension and how they relate to typical or atypical development of reading comprehension, reading in history classes, comprehension of densely worded and symbolic mathematical texts, understanding causality in science texts, the more rigorous comprehension standards in English language arts classes, balancing the practical and measurement constraints of the assessment of reading comprehension, understanding the needs and challenges of English language learners and students in special education with respect to the various content areas discussed in this book. This book is of interest to researchers in literacy and educational psychology as well as curriculum developers.

Editors and Affiliations

  • College of Education, University of Houston, Houston, USA

    Kristi L. Santi

  • Florida Center for Reading Research, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA

    Deborah K. Reed

About the editors

Davide Comoretto graduated in Physics in 1988. In 1993 He obtained the PhD in Chemical Sciences and was enrolled as Research Scientist at the Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry of the University of Genoa (I) where is now Associated Professor of Industrial Chemistry.

His interest is devoted to the investigation of the optical anisotropy of highly oriented conjugated polymers as well as to the photophysics of polyconjugated materials. He addressed the relations between the nature of photoexcitations and the polymer supramolecular structure.

He is currently working on organic & hybrid photonic crystals such as artificial opals, polymer DBR, and microcavities. His goal is to dope such photonic crystals with photo-active materials or to engineer structural defects in order to modulate the photonic crystal optical response.

He is involved in several national and international research projects and He collaborates with different companies for the technological exploitation of conjugated polymers and photonic crystals in the fields of photovoltaics, sensing and photonics. He is co-author of more than 130 papers published on refereed international journals or books.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Improving Reading Comprehension of Middle and High School Students

  • Editors: Kristi L. Santi, Deborah K. Reed

  • Series Title: Literacy Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14735-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-14734-5Published: 25 March 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38632-4Published: 09 October 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-14735-2Published: 04 March 2015

  • Series ISSN: 2214-000X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-0018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 197

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Literacy, Educational Psychology, Applied Linguistics, Curriculum Studies

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