2nd Edition

Reading Researchers in Search of Common Ground The Expert Study Revisited

Edited By Rona F. Flippo Copyright 2012
392 Pages 28 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

392 Pages 28 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

392 Pages 28 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In Reading Researchers in Search of Common Ground, Second Edition, Rona F. Flippo revisits her groundbreaking Expert Study, in which she set out to find common ground among experts in the much-fragmented field of reading research. The original edition, featuring contributions from participants in the Expert Study, commentary from additional distinguished literacy scholars with specialized... Read more

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