In its early history teacher education emphasized teacher knowledge of subject matter
(Shulman, 1986). For the past few decades teacher education researchers have focused on …

ABSTRACTS The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the nature of reading
comprehension processes while reading on the Internet. Eleven sixth‐grade students with …

Imagery and Text, Second Edition extends the first edition's unified theory of cognition in
literacy from the perspective of Dual Coding Theory (DCT), one of the most influential and …

Based on five years of close observation of students, writing and collaborative planning--the
practice in which student writers take the roles of planner and supporter to help each other …

Written specifically for graduate students studying to become teachers of composition, this
text provides well-documented, specific information about planning curricula, develo** …

Comprehension strategies are being taught in schools, with important similarities across
some schools that are teaching them well. Strategy teaching typically occurs daily in these …

IN discourse synthesis readers become writers, creating new texts by selecting, organizing,
and connecting content from source texts. In this study of discourse synthesis, accomplished …

Academic and practitioner journals in fields from electronics to business to language
studies, as well as the popular press, have for over a decade been proclaiming the arrival of …

" The Constructivist Metaphor" presents a major reconsideration of constructivist theory
through an applied examination of the ways in which people create meaning for texts …

The Social and Cognitive Studies in Writing and Literacy Series, is devoted to books that
bridge research, theory, and practice, exploring social and cognitive processes in writing …