Executive Skills and Reading Comprehension: A Guide for Educators - Couverture souple

Cartwright, Kelly B.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1462551491 ISBN 13 : 9781462551491

Editeur : Guilford Press, 2023

Synopsis

This pioneering book is now in a revised and expanded second edition featuring the latest neuroscientific knowledge and instructional strategies. Kelly B. Cartwright provides a teacher-friendly explanation of executive skills--such as planning, organization, cognitive flexibility, and impulse control--and their role in reading comprehension. Detailed examples illustrate how each skill is deployed by strong comprehenders and ways to tailor instruction for students who are struggling. The companion website features reproducible planning and assessment forms from the book as well as supplemental card sorts to teach and assess cognitive flexibility, all ready to download and print in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size.

New to This Edition

• Updated throughout with advances in theory, research, and instruction.
• Chapter on word recognition, with particular attention to dyslexia.
• Information on the development of the brain's reading network.
• Expanded emphasis on oral language comprehension.
• Appendix of intervention studies; online-only supplement with card sorts to teach and assess cognitive flexibility.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kelly B. Cartwright, PhD, is the Spangler Distinguished Professor of Early Child Literacy at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where she directs the Reading, Executive function, and Development Lab (READ Lab) and serves as Co-Coordinator for the PhD concentration in Literacy Research, Policy, and Practice and on the Executive Board for the Mebane Early Literacy Center. Her research focuses on the development of skilled reading comprehension and the neurocognitive and affective factors that underlie comprehension processes and difficulties from preschool through adulthood. Dr. Cartwright regularly works with teachers in schools throughout the United States to better understand and improve comprehension instruction for striving readers, and these experiences inform her research.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Guilford Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1462551491
• ISBN 13: 9781462551491
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 379
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible