Executive Skills and Reading Comprehension, Second Edition

A Guide for Educators

Kelly B. Cartwright (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

379 Seiten

2023 | 2nd edition
Guilford Press (Verlag)
978-1-4625-5149-1 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Foreword, Nell K. Duke
Preface
Prologue: Linking the New with the Old: How Are Familiar Reading Skills and Strategies Related to Executive Skills?
1. Executive Skills: What Are They, and Why Are They Important for Developing Thinking Readers?
2. Plans and Goals: Getting Ready to Read
3. Organization: Why Text and Reader Organization Matter
4. Cognitive Flexibility: Juggling Multiple Aspects of Reading
5. Working Memory: Holding and Linking Ideas in Mind While Reading
6. Inhibition and Impulse Control: Resisting Distractions to Support Comprehension
7. Social Understanding: The Importance of Mind Reading for Reading Comprehension
8. Executive Skills, Word Recognition, and Dyslexia: Cracking the Code Is Complicated, Too
Appendix A: Rubric for Assessing Executive Skills in Observations of Your Students’ Reading Behavior
Appendix B: List of Games That Require Behaviors Related to the Executive Skills Described in This Book
Appendix C: List of Executive Skill-Based Intervention Studies That Resulted in Improvements in Reading
Children's Literature Cited
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	13.04.2023
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	700 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Pädagogische Psychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
ISBN-10	1-4625-5149-1 / 1462551491
ISBN-13	978-1-4625-5149-1 / 9781462551491
Zustand	Neuware