Building a Knowledge Base in Reading

by Jane Braunger

Use this updated edition of Building a Knowledge Base in Reading to make sound decisions about instructional programs and materials. You'll find a broad and balanced perspective for building your practice around the best possible evidence-based reading research. Updates include expanded core understandings that give implications for students at all levels, teacher resources that will help you translate these understandings into classroom practice, and chapter summaries that will help you pull together key ideas. The International Reading Association is the world's premier organization of literacy professionals. Our titles promote reading by providing professional development to continuously advance the quality of literacy instruction and research. Research-based, classroom-tested, and peer-reviewed, IRA titles are among the highest quality tools that help literacy professionals do their jobs better. Some of the many areas we publish in -Comprehension
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216 pages, Paperback

First published October 20, 2005

Reviews

[Cherylann · Rating 4 out of 5]

I feel that this book would make a great PLC discussion and should be required reading for all lawmakers currently voting to cut funding to schools and libraries. It is a really comprehensive look at the issues surrounding reading and the research that helps to provides answers to the reading debates. In a perfect world this text would include discussion and research about the new Common Core Curriculum Standards; however, the 2010-2011 school year is the first year they're in use, so my wish is a bit premature. What didn't I like about the text? The reference list. Seriously. Each chapter got it's own reference list, which made it difficult to use. As I'm trying to gain a historical perspective of the issues in the field of literacy, I'm searching articles and texts I haven't read before. The layout of the reference list was unwieldy for a scholar whose used the text as a survey of the field and wants to go more in-depth.