2nd Edition
Reading Researchers in Search of Common Ground The Expert Study Revisited
Foreword Patricia A. Edwards
Preface Rona F. Flippo
Acknowledgments
Part I: The Study, Findings, and Experts' Points of View: Revisited
Chapter 1 About the "Expert Study": Report and Original Findings. Rona F. Flippo
Chapter 2 Point of View: Richard C. Anderson. Linda G. Fielding
Chapter 3 Point of View: On Being an "Expert" with a Point of View. Brian Cambourne
Chapter 4 Point of View: My Point of View. Edward Fry
Chapter 5 Point of View: Always a Teacher: From Teacher to Teacher Educator to Researcher. Yetta M. Goodman
Chapter 6 Point of View: When a Researcher Studies Writers in Their Classrooms. Jane Hansen
Chapter 7 Point of View: Jerome C. Harste. Diane DeFord
Chapter 8 Point of View: Wayne R. Otto. Robert T. Rude
Chapter 9 Point of View: Global Perspectives on Teaching Children to Read English. Scott G. Paris
Chapter 10 Point of View: Life in the Radical Middle. P. David Pearson
Chapter 11 Point of View: George Spache. Richard D. Robinson
Chapter 12 Point of View: Principled Pluralism, Cognitive Flexibility, and New Contexts for Reading. Rand J. Spiro, Paul Morsink, and Benjamin Forsyth
Part II: What We Know About Literacy: Revisited
Chapter 13 Multicultural Considerations and Diverse Students. Kathryn H. Au
Chapter 14 Motivation to Read. Jacquelynn A. Malloy and Linda B. Gambrell
Chapter 15 Emergent Writing Development and Second-Language Learners. David B. Yaden and Joan M. Tardibuono
Chapter 16 Communication and Collaboration with Parents, Families and Communities. Timothy V. Rasinski
Chapter 17 Literacy Instruction: Toward a Comprehensive, Scientific, and Artistic Literacy Curriculum. Nancy Padak and Timothy V. Rasinski
Part III: Toward a Common Ground: Revisited
Chapter 18 A Focus on Policy-Driven Literacy Practices, the Media, and the Work of Reading Professionals. Maryann Mraz and Richard T. Vacca.
Chapter 19 A Focus on the NAEP Data. Jay R. Campbell
Chapter 20 A Focus on Literacy Trends and Issues Today. Jack Cassidy and Corinne Valadez
Chapter 21 A Focus on Struggling Readers: A Comparative Analysis of Expert Opinion and Empirical Research Recommendations. Cindy D. Jones, D. Ray Reutzel and John A. Smith
Chapter 22 The New Common Ground: Pulling it All Together. Rona F. Flippo
About the Contributors
Biography
Rona F. Flippo is Professor of Education at the University of Massachusetts Boston, College of Education and Human Development and on the International Reading Association Board of Directors (2012-2015).
"This book could easily become a classic in reading education. Rona Flippo has identified a consensus of common beliefs among prominent reading educators about what makes reading difficult and what facilitates learning to read."
—Tennessee Reading Teacher






