REED 729: Seminar in Reading

This book explores social and cultural factors in adolescents' approach to communication and response to instruction, and sections address literacy both in and out of schools, including literacy expectations in the contemporary workplace. Detailed attention is given to issues of diversity and individual differences among learners.

This book examines reading disabilities from sociopolitical and historical perspectives, as cultural and psychological constructs, from the point of view of an interventionist, and emphasizing that learning to read proficiently is long-term developmental process involving many interventions of various kinds, all keyed to individual developmental needs.

This book covers themes including historical perspectives on reading comprehension, theoretical perspectives, changing views of text, elements of reading comprehension, and assessing and teaching.

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